The Booming Number of Museums and Their Inequality Changes in China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
Data Collection
3. Calculations
Inequality
4. Scale Law and Allometric Relationships
5. Results
5.1. Historical Trends of the Number of Museums
5.2. Scale Law of the Number of Museums and Local Population
5.3. Relationships between the Number of Visitors and the Number of Museums
5.4. Historical Changes in the Gini Coefficient of the per Capita Number of Museums
5.5. Relationship between Inequality and Socioeconomic Development
5.6. Public Attention Regarding the Museums
6. Discussion
6.1. The Museum Boom Still Lags behind Population and Economic Development
6.2. The Museum Agglomeration Effect Promotes Visits to Museums
6.3. The Number of Museums among Provinces Is Relatively Equal, but Gini among Cities Needs to Be Improved
6.4. Museum Development Synergizes with Economic Growth and Human Well-Being
6.5. Limitations and Uncertainties
7. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Chang, X.; Wu, Z.; Chen, Y.; Du, Y.; Shang, L.; Ge, Y.; Chang, J.; Yang, G. The Booming Number of Museums and Their Inequality Changes in China. Sustainability 2021, 13, 13860. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413860
Chang X, Wu Z, Chen Y, Du Y, Shang L, Ge Y, Chang J, Yang G. The Booming Number of Museums and Their Inequality Changes in China. Sustainability. 2021; 13(24):13860. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413860
Chicago/Turabian StyleChang, Xianyuan, Zhaoping Wu, Yi Chen, Yuanyuan Du, Longfei Shang, Ying Ge, Jie Chang, and Guofu Yang. 2021. "The Booming Number of Museums and Their Inequality Changes in China" Sustainability 13, no. 24: 13860. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413860