Table 4.

PHC efficiency in 31 provincial units.

Province	Stage 1					Stage 3
	TE	PTE	SE	RTS	Rank	TE	PTE	SE	RTS	Rank	Compare
Beijing	1	1	1	-	1	0.644	0.889	0.724	irs	20	↑
Tianjin	0.887	1	0.887	irs	13	0.731	1	0.731	irs	18	↑
Hebei	0.848	0.853	0.995	drs	16	0.833	0.846	0.985	irs	15	↑
Shanxi	0.451	0.462	0.975	irs	30	0.437	0.509	0.859	irs	30	↑
Inner Mongolia	0.51	0.536	0.951	irs	27	0.477	0.596	0.801	irs	27	↑
Liaoning	0.595	0.603	0.985	irs	25	0.618	0.694	0.89	irs	21	↓
Jilin	0.488	0.523	0.933	irs	29	0.471	0.598	0.789	irs	28	↑
Heilongjiang	0.506	0.542	0.933	irs	28	0.544	0.687	0.792	irs	24	↓
Shanghai	1	1	1	-	2	0.806	1	0.806	irs	16	↑
Jiangsu	0.887	1	0.887	drs	14	0.911	0.924	0.986	irs	11	↓
Zhejiang	1	1	1	-	3	1	1	1	-	1	-
Anhui	0.927	1	0.927	drs	11	1	1	1	-	1	↓
Fujian	0.873	0.875	0.999	irs	15	0.804	0.847	0.949	irs	17	↑
Jiangxi	0.956	0.98	0.976	drs	10	0.987	0.995	0.993	drs	8	↓
Shandong	0.82	1	0.82	drs	19	0.87	1	0.87	drs	12	↓
Henan	0.835	0.947	0.882	drs	17	0.839	0.939	0.893	drs	14	↓
Hubei	0.917	0.991	0.925	drs	12	0.941	0.98	0.96	drs	9	↓
Hunan	0.826	0.882	0.936	drs	18	0.858	0.892	0.963	drs	13	↓
Guangdong	1	1	1	-	4	1	1	1	-	1	-
Guangxi	0.981	1	0.981	drs	9	1	1	1	-	1	↓
Hainan	0.694	0.864	0.804	irs	23	0.54	0.987	0.547	irs	25	↑
Chongqing	1	1	1	-	5	1	1	1	-	1	-
Sichuan	0.992	1	0.992	drs	8	1	1	1	-	1	↓
Guizhou	1	1	1	-	6	1	1	1	-	1	-
Yunnan	1	1	1	-	7	0.927	0.992	0.935	irs	10	↑
Tibet	0.373	1	0.373	irs	31	0.102	0.507	0.201	irs	31	↑
Shanxi	0.595	0.614	0.969	irs	26	0.563	0.624	0.902	irs	23	↑
Gansu	0.761	0.767	0.993	irs	21	0.691	0.789	0.875	irs	19	↑
Qinghai	0.707	1	0.707	irs	22	0.523	1	0.523	irs	26	↑
Ningxia	0.776	1	0.776	irs	20	0.464	1	0.464	irs	29	↑
Xinjiang	0.648	0.714	0.908	irs	24	0.58	0.703	0.826	irs	22	↑
mean	0.802	0.876	0.92			0.747	0.871	0.847

drs indicates diminishing returns to scale, irs indicates increasing returns to scale, and - indicates constant returns to scale.