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Papers by Can Cui

Research paper thumbnail of Difference in Housing Finance Usage and Its Impact on Housing Wealth Inequality in Urban China

Land, 2021

With the increasing importance of financial loans in home purchases in urban China, the role of h... more With the increasing importance of financial loans in home purchases in urban China, the role of housing loans in the accumulation of housing wealth needs to be unraveled. Using the data from the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), this study investigates the use of housing loans and their impact on housing wealth inequality. It has been found that people with higher socioeconomic status and institutional advantages benefit more from housing provident fund loans and are more likely to fully invoke different financing channels to accumulate housing wealth. On the contrary, disadvantaged groups have to resort to costly market-based mortgages to finance their home purchases. This leads them to fall further behind in housing wealth accumulation. The spatial stratification of housing wealth accompanying the urban hierarchy was also observed and found to be closely linked to the type of housing loans. In this increasingly financialized era, relying on financial instruments in the p...

Research paper thumbnail of The Interregional Migration of Human Capital: The Case of “First-Class” University Graduates in China

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2021

Human capital has been acknowledged as a key driver for innovation, thereby promoting regional ec... more Human capital has been acknowledged as a key driver for innovation, thereby promoting regional economic development in the knowledge era. University graduates from China’s “first-class” universities—the top 42 universities, included in the “double first-class” initiative, are considered highly educated human capital. Their migration patterns will exert profound impacts on regional development in China, however, little is known about the migration of these elite university graduates and its underlying driving forces. Using data from the 2018 Graduate Employment Reports, this study reveals that the uneven distribution of “first-class” universities and regional differentials largely shaped the migration of graduates from the university to work. Graduates were found aggregating in eastern first-tier cities, even though appealing talent-orientated policies aimed at attracting human capital had been launched in recent years by second-tier cities. Employing negative binomial models, this s...

Research paper thumbnail of The Socio-Spatial Distribution of Leisure Venues: A Case Study of Karaoke Bars in Nanjing, China

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

With the development of service industry and cultural industry, urban leisure and entertainment s... more With the development of service industry and cultural industry, urban leisure and entertainment services have become an important symbol of the city and the driving force of economic and social development. Karaoke, a typical form of urban entertainment, is immensely popular throughout China, and the number of karaoke bars is expected to keep growing in the future. However, little is known about their spatial distribution in the urban space and their association with other location-specific factors. Based on the geospatial entity data and business statistics data, we demonstrate a clustered pattern of 530 karaoke bars in Nanjing by means of point pattern analysis and cluster analysis in GIS. Furthermore, we identify the distribution of population, transportation network, and commercial centers as the three determinants underlying the formation of the pattern.

Research paper thumbnail of An efficient algorithm for clipping operation based on trapezoidal meshes and sweep-line technique

Advances in Engineering Software, 2012

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for clipping points, arcs and polygons, which is a com... more This paper presents an efficient algorithm for clipping points, arcs and polygons, which is a common operation in geographic information system (GIS). By incorporating the sweep-line technique in the proposed algorithm, the involved polygons are decomposed into a collection of trapezoidal meshes. In this way, the clipping operation between the to-be-clipped point, arc, polygon features and the subject polygons is transformed into an operation between points, arcs and the decomposed trapezoidal meshes, which is much easier to implement. Experimental results demonstrate that the algorithm is computational efficient comparing to the existing methods, especially when the input data contain a large number of polygons. In addition, the amount of storage space required is moderate. Furthermore, this algorithm is very flexible and able to handle concave polygons and those with holes.

Research paper thumbnail of Difference in Housing Finance Usage and Its Impact on Housing Wealth Inequality in Urban China

Land, 2021

With the increasing importance of financial loans in home purchases in urban China, the role of h... more With the increasing importance of financial loans in home purchases in urban China, the role of housing loans in the accumulation of housing wealth needs to be unraveled. Using the data from the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), this study investigates the use of housing loans and their impact on housing wealth inequality. It has been found that people with higher socioeconomic status and institutional advantages benefit more from housing provident fund loans and are more likely to fully invoke different financing channels to accumulate housing wealth. On the contrary, disadvantaged groups have to resort to costly market-based mortgages to finance their home purchases. This leads them to fall further behind in housing wealth accumulation. The spatial stratification of housing wealth accompanying the urban hierarchy was also observed and found to be closely linked to the type of housing loans. In this increasingly financialized era, relying on financial instruments in the p...

Research paper thumbnail of The Interregional Migration of Human Capital: The Case of “First-Class” University Graduates in China

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2021

Human capital has been acknowledged as a key driver for innovation, thereby promoting regional ec... more Human capital has been acknowledged as a key driver for innovation, thereby promoting regional economic development in the knowledge era. University graduates from China’s “first-class” universities—the top 42 universities, included in the “double first-class” initiative, are considered highly educated human capital. Their migration patterns will exert profound impacts on regional development in China, however, little is known about the migration of these elite university graduates and its underlying driving forces. Using data from the 2018 Graduate Employment Reports, this study reveals that the uneven distribution of “first-class” universities and regional differentials largely shaped the migration of graduates from the university to work. Graduates were found aggregating in eastern first-tier cities, even though appealing talent-orientated policies aimed at attracting human capital had been launched in recent years by second-tier cities. Employing negative binomial models, this s...

Research paper thumbnail of The Socio-Spatial Distribution of Leisure Venues: A Case Study of Karaoke Bars in Nanjing, China

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

With the development of service industry and cultural industry, urban leisure and entertainment s... more With the development of service industry and cultural industry, urban leisure and entertainment services have become an important symbol of the city and the driving force of economic and social development. Karaoke, a typical form of urban entertainment, is immensely popular throughout China, and the number of karaoke bars is expected to keep growing in the future. However, little is known about their spatial distribution in the urban space and their association with other location-specific factors. Based on the geospatial entity data and business statistics data, we demonstrate a clustered pattern of 530 karaoke bars in Nanjing by means of point pattern analysis and cluster analysis in GIS. Furthermore, we identify the distribution of population, transportation network, and commercial centers as the three determinants underlying the formation of the pattern.

Research paper thumbnail of An efficient algorithm for clipping operation based on trapezoidal meshes and sweep-line technique

Advances in Engineering Software, 2012

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for clipping points, arcs and polygons, which is a com... more This paper presents an efficient algorithm for clipping points, arcs and polygons, which is a common operation in geographic information system (GIS). By incorporating the sweep-line technique in the proposed algorithm, the involved polygons are decomposed into a collection of trapezoidal meshes. In this way, the clipping operation between the to-be-clipped point, arc, polygon features and the subject polygons is transformed into an operation between points, arcs and the decomposed trapezoidal meshes, which is much easier to implement. Experimental results demonstrate that the algorithm is computational efficient comparing to the existing methods, especially when the input data contain a large number of polygons. In addition, the amount of storage space required is moderate. Furthermore, this algorithm is very flexible and able to handle concave polygons and those with holes.