Table 2 General information in six Chinese cities. The high-speed train time was from the official website of China Railway (https://www.12306.cn/index/); The socioeconomic data came from the 2020 Statistical Yearbook of China Economic and Social Big Data Research Platform (https://data.cnki.net/yearBook?type=type&code=A).
City | Shortest high-speed train time to Wuhan/min | Total population at the end of 2019/10,000 | 2019 GDP/100 m yuan | Urban land area/km2 | Administrative rank | Sample size | The coverage rate of the sample (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yueyang | 50 | 577.13 | 3780.41 | 14,858 | prefecture-level | 154 | 100 |
Xinyang | 43 | 646.39 | 2758.47 | 18,916 | prefecture-level | 246 | 98 |
Hefei | 98 | 818.90 | 9409.40 | 11,496 | Provincial capital | 170 | 100 |
Wenzhou | 377 | 930.00 | 6606.10 | 12,103 | prefecture-level | 471 | 94 |
Shenzhen | 276 | 1343.88 | 26,927.09 | 1998 | Sub-provincial city | 413 | 100 |
Chongqing | 369 | 3124.32 | 23,605.77 | 82,370 | Municipality directly under the Central Government | 441 | 82 |
