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Freight Transportation and Economic Growth for Zones: Sustainability and Development Strategy in China

Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10450; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410450
by Yanli Ma 1,*, Jieyu Zhu 1, Gaofeng Gu 2,* and Ke Chen 3
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10450; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410450
Submission received: 9 November 2020 / Revised: 7 December 2020 / Accepted: 9 December 2020 / Published: 14 December 2020

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

There are comments and suggestions for authors in the attachment.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Please see the attachment. Thank you！

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Reviewer 2 Report

The issue connected with relations between regional freight turnover and the gross domestic product is a very interesting subject. That is why the papers which explain the relation are very needed.

The article fulfills the gap in the existing literature.

However, I have to write about the limitations of the article.

  1. I would like the authors to formulate hypotheses.
  2. The literature review is too short – especially part 2.2 – there are many economic models that can be developed at this point.
  3. Map 2 should be presented before the table. The authors should describe better differences between regions – not just only present the table. The authors should name this part 3.1 – the characteristic of the research area. In the next part, there is to little information about the methodology – it should be better described - ste by step. It seems chaotic now.
  4. At the end of the article, there should be presented the limitations.

Author Response

Please see the attachment. Thank you！

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Please check table 2, there is 2x correlation in text

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

The article seems to have been improved by the authors. I have one more suggestion -

Authors formulate a hypothesis: The hypothesis is that transportation has a positive impact on zonal economic growth, 2 while we hypothesize transportation and regional economic growth have a causal 3 relationship for Chinese zones. I suggest present it in the introduction – in my opinion, this location is not acceptable.

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