Figure 3

Employment index for industrial parks. (A) The grey line shows the overall trend among all 2,000 industrial parks, which is relatively steady with a slow decline. The blue line, which represents the result for approximately 1,000 manufacturing industrial parks, shows a sustained and more obvious downward trend; the red line, which represents the result for approximately 1,000 high-tech parks, shows healthy growth. (B) Monthly year-over-year growth rate. January and February are aggregated together to remove the influence of the Spring Festival holiday, which falls in a different time period in January or February every year.