Spatiotemporal Evolution and Complexity of Urban Networks in China, 1978–2019: An Enterprise Linkages Perspective

Table 1

Basic research data.

Year	City pairs with enterprise flows (unit: pieces)				Cities involved
	Headquarter-branches	Investor-investee	Total flows before processing	Total flows after processing
1978	229	369	598	527	221
1992	3438	3547	6985	5515	349
2001	14691	12504	27195	19264	351
2010	25161	23360	48521	33542	352
2019	42644	47359	90003	58700	352