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This paper is to analyse the regional difference of international trade openness and economic growth, employing a concept of relative trade openness and relative economic growth between regions with annual data of Chinese provinces for the period of 1978-2010. The results of this paper are as followings; first, the Chinese provinces vary considerably in the degrees of relative trade openness. the degrees were high and increasing in eastern regions of China, whereas low and unchanging in western regions. second, the degrees of relative economic growth have likewise great differences between regions. In the east the degrees were high and increasing, but in the west low and even decreasing. so the disparity between east and west was widen over the periods. third, in conclusion a positive relation between trade openness and economic growth was found.