Decentralization, Marketization, and Globalization: The Triple Processes Underlying Regional Development in China

Wei, Yehua Dennis

doi:10.1080/10225706.2001.9684073

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“…The transition progress of decentralization, marketization and globalization brought the East China ahead of other regions (Wei, 2001). According to Chinese statistic definition, there are four parts, which are eastern China, central China, western China and northeastern China.…”

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The spatio-temporal patterns of urban–rural development transformation in China since 1990

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a b s t r a c tChina has undergone a dramatic transition echoed the unprecedented urbanization and economic growth since the late 1970s. The current research on urbanization has overlooked the transformation consistency between urban and rural areas. Although the Chinese central government has focused on improving rural residents' livelihood, it is still far from achieving coordinated urbanerural development. This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of China's urbanerural development transformation (URDT) based on three indicator systems, namely the urbanerural development level (URDL), the urban erural structure level (URSL), and the urbanerural coordination level (URCL). Findings from this investigation show that universal and intense URDT has taken place in China over the last two decades. This has been accompanied by growth of URDL and URSL and deterioration of URCL. There are, however, obvious spatial disparities in the different aspects of URDT. The western and northeastern regions of China have experienced slower transformation than other regions between 1990 and 2010. Correlation analysis among the sub-index shows that coordinated urbanerural development needs a certain initial socioeconomic level and moderate changes of URDL and URSL. This paper suggests that more attentions should be paid to rural areas and lagging areas in central and western China. Given the regional disparities of URDT, the most effective way to achieve urbanerural integration in China is by taking the overall considerations of development policies of both region and urbanerural areas aimed at various urbanerural development transformation characteristics.

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“…Economic reform such as decentralization, marketization and globalization has triggered regional development in China Wei, 2001). According to the development paths, there were two stages with different transformation characteristics.…”

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Liu

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“…For example, Wei [11,39] has proposed a framework within which China's economic transition is a triple process of decentralization, marketization, and globalization. This framework provides an innovative basis for China's spatial structuring theory.…”

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“…These triple processes can help to systematically (re)understand the mechanisms of urban land expansion during the transition era [11]. Given that NNUP is merely a start of the path towards reaching China's sustainable urban development destination, it is an opportune time to examine and reflect on these issues.…”

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Urban Land Expansion and Structural Change in the Yangtze River Delta, China

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Urban development in China has attracted considerable scholarly attention. However, more work is still needed to examine and understand the mechanisms of urban land expansion, especially within the context of globalization/marketization, decentralization and urbanization. This paper analyzes urban land expansion and structural changes in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). We find that cities in the YRD are experiencing urban land expansion mainly characterized by the growth of residential and industrial land. The dominant characteristics of urban land expansion in cities have also varied within different development and administrative levels. Based on our conceptual framework, we have used multi-models to investigate the driving forces of urban land expansion and structural changes in the YRD. The results reveal that six influencing factors-foreign direct investment (FDI), labor, government competition, institution, population, and job-housing relations-facilitate land use change in the economic transition process. However, their impacts differ in cities in different geographical locations, as well as with different administrative levels. Finally, this paper discusses policies to promote sustainable urban land use in the YRD. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 10282

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“…The transitional economies are also experiencing various processes of sociospatial transformation. It is argued that the general principle of scale theory also applies to socialist transitional economies, where scalar configuration has been rearticulated by liberalization and globalization involving twin issues of governance and scale [7][8][9].…”

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Spatial Strategies of Urban Development: Rescaling and Territorialization in Post Reform China

Shen¹

2008

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This paper considers the urban spatial changes in China as rescaling and territorialization processes. Decentralization has led to the emergence of localism in China, in a fashion similar to western cities but with unique features and context of a transitional economy. Acquiring urban status and expanding urban space have become a new strategy for lasting local development, resulting in a massive urban space re-organization in Chinese history. The case of China shows that the rescaling of the state and the city means relative changes in the roles of the central and local states. The central state continues to play an important role while the local states, the urban governments, actively engage in urban spatial changes for the local land, economic and financial interests.

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Decentralization, Marketization, and Globalization: The Triple Processes Underlying Regional Development in China

Cited by 170 publications

References 24 publications

The spatio-temporal patterns of urban–rural development transformation in China since 1990

The spatio-temporal patterns of urban–rural development transformation in China since 1990

Urban Land Expansion and Structural Change in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Spatial Strategies of Urban Development: Rescaling and Territorialization in Post Reform China

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