The Reviewer raises a valuable point which we overlooked previously. In the section 3.3, we improve the understanding of the growth pattern of Chinese agricultural labor productivity by adding the estimations of beta and sigma convergence. The results of convergence estimation also echo our analysis of LGCM.
The authors could enrich the results’ part with reference to the concepts of convergence of Barro and Sala-i-Martin, beta and sigma convergence. The authors wrote about these concepts, for example pg. 6 lines 22-23 and pg. 9 lines 5-6, but they can point out the non existence in the case of Chinese prefectural level.