THE CHINESE ECONOMY, WITH SIGNIFICANT INFLUENCE UPON THE WORLD ECONOMY, HAS BEEN RECEIVING CONTINUOUS REFORMS THROUGH 1980', BUT ITS INFRASTRUCTURES ARE YET TO BE IMPROVED. HENCE, IT IS IMPORTANT TO DEVELOP A MULTI-REGIONAL ECONOMETRIC MODEL FOR EVALUATING ALLOCATIONS OF RESOURCES AMONG PROJECTS, AND THE MULTI-REGIONAL INPUT-OUTPUT TABLES WOULD PROVIDE IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSE. WE HERE PROPOSE A NONSURVEY METHOD TO CONVERT THE NATIONAL INPUT-OUTPUT TABLE TO THOSE FOR THE REGIONS. FROM THEM, WE COULD CALCULATE A VARIETY OF REGIONAL STATISTICS, INCLUDING SURROGATE PRICE INDICES, WHICH HELP CHARACTERIZE THE REGIONS THROUGH PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSES. IT IS HOPED SUCH ANALYSES COULD BE A STEP TOWARDS A COMPLETE MULTI-REGIONAL MODEL.
