Failing entrepreneurial governance: From economic crisis to fiscal crisis in the city of Dongguan, China

Xue, Dayuan; Wu, Fulong

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2014.11.005

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“…In contrast, as in Dongguan, doubts of some officials about local people's environmental awareness have prompted greenway‐related land expropriation (Interview, Dongguan Municipal Official, May 2016). Since Dongguan has been a famous destination of industrial investment after China's economic reforms, its villages have economically relied on rental income from their factory buildings and housing for migrant workers (Xue and Wu ). This trend is well noted by local officials, one of whom had complained that “it is so hard to expropriate land from Dongguan residents, who have a strong view on land economy [i.e.…”

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Negotiating Green Space with Landed Interests: The Urban Political Ecology of Greenway in the Pearl River Delta, China

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2018

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Land-centred urbanisation has precipitated shortage of green space in Chinese cities. However, in the Pearl River Delta, an ambitious greenway system has recently managed to flourish. It is intriguing to ask how this has become possible. Informed by the perspective of urban political ecology, this paper finds that the greenway project in the Pearl River Delta represents a set of politically realistic endeavours to alleviate urban green space shortage by adapting to, rather than challenging, powerful landed interests. Three interlocking dimensions about land-municipal land quota, rural land use claims, and real estate development-have influenced why, where and how greenways have been created. Based on these findings, we argue that research on China's politics of urban sustainability necessarily needs to understand the country's land politics.

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Negotiating Green Space with Landed Interests: The Urban Political Ecology of Greenway in the Pearl River Delta, China

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2018

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“…The global financial crisis of 2008 reduced rental incomes and placed added pressures on village shareholder companies. In Dongguan, villages incurred heavy debts, suggesting the deepening of an economic crisis into a financial crisis of entrepreneurial governance (Xue and Wu, 2015).…”

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“…state-market relationship (Logan, 2008;Yeh et al, 2015). A powerful paradigm is neoliberalism, which describes the retreat of the state from social provision and the dominance of market exchanges (Harvey, 2005).…”

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Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism

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Urban Studies

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This article defines the key parameters of 'state entrepreneurialism' as a governance form that combines planning centrality and market instruments, and interprets how these two seemingly contradictory tendencies are made coherent in the political economic structures of post-reform China. Through examining urban regeneration programmes (in particular 'three olds regeneration', sanjiu gaizao), the development of suburban new towns and the reconstruction of the countryside, the article details institutional configurations that make the Chinese case different from a neoliberal growth machine. The contradiction of these tendencies gives room to urban residents and migrants to develop their agencies and their own spaces, and creates informalities in Chinese urban transformation.

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“…Aside from gaining substantial material returns from real estate investments, land‐derived revenues enable rural communities to finance extensive welfare programs and infrastructure upgrades. Rental income supports a variety of rural public service provisions, including healthcare, public sanitation, elderly welfare, education, cultural and sports activities, as well as security maintenance (Xue and Wu, ).…”

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Accumulation without Dispossession? Land Commodification and Rent Extraction in Peri‐urban China

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2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The urbanization of rural China is increasingly achieved not through physical land grabs but the strategic enrolment of rural communities in the commodification of land via speculative rentiership. This article critically examines this shift in approach from the deployment of extra-economic force in state-led land expropriations toward an increasing reliance on market mechanisms in land development. A case study, the construction of a financial district in peri-urban Guangzhou, shows that the enrolment of village communities is achieved through their cooptation as corporatist market players in regimes of rent-based accumulation. While the apparent use of voluntaristic market exchange has reduced the need for coercion, however, the commodification process has at the same time created new terrain for dispossessory practices whereby value is illicitly extracted and seized by elites through rent relations. The shift from overt land grabbing to more covert mechanisms of value appropriation has important implications for rural class relations and contentious politics.

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Failing entrepreneurial governance: From economic crisis to fiscal crisis in the city of Dongguan, China

Cited by 49 publications

References 40 publications

Negotiating Green Space with Landed Interests: The Urban Political Ecology of Greenway in the Pearl River Delta, China

Negotiating Green Space with Landed Interests: The Urban Political Ecology of Greenway in the Pearl River Delta, China

Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism

Accumulation without Dispossession? Land Commodification and Rent Extraction in Peri‐urban China

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