‘The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated’: China and the developmental state 25 years afterGoverning the Market

The Chinese Communist Party: A 100-Year Trajectory

“…The CCP drew the 'red lines', which economic actors knew they could not cross without suffering serious consequences. In this sense, China can be defined as a peculiar form of developmental state (in line with the experiences of Japan, Korea and Taiwan), in which the CCP has been the developmental agency in charge of economic policies (Gabusi 2017). Economic nationalism and a certain obsession with the necessity of 'catching-up' with industrialised countries have always been among the main features of East Asian developmental states, and China is no exception.…”

Postsocialist shrinking cities

“…Although there are divergent views on the results of the neoliberal plunge among postsocialist European countries, an increasing number of scholars are questioning the application of the neoliberal model to explain the variety of urban and regional transformations in postsocialist Europe, Russia, and China. Some researchers suggest China should be regarded as a developmental state, much as South Korea and Singapore are regarded (Gabusi, 2017, Bolesta, 2014, but others have argued that both China and Russia are contemporary "state capitalisms" (Tsai and Naughton, 2015). Most discussions, however, focus on Chinese state-capitalism, in which the one-party state has managed to use the market economy to reinforce its authority and prestige (Roland, 2018).…”

Introduciendo al Estado para el desarrollo en el enfoque de Cadenas Globales de Valor

“…Ciertas industrias consideradas estratégicas en términos económicos y políticos -como telecomunicaciones, energía, transporte, y banca-se mantuvieron ajenas a la penetración del capital foráneo, y se estimuló en las mismas el desarrollo de campeones nacionales -muchos de ellos empresas de propiedad estatal-con el objetivo que devengan en empresas líderes de cadenas globales, en el marco de la estrategia de China go global (Ministry for Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, 2000). Por otro lado, también se ha forzado el establecimiento de joint ventures entre empresas locales y extranjeras con el objeto de adquirir conocimientos tecnológicos y de gestión; se instauraron pautas al ingreso del capital foráneo que involucran directamente la transferencia de tecnología o la sustitución progresiva de importaciones por producción local, por mencionar algunas de las medidas más relevantes en relación al condicionamiento de la inversión extranjera, que también apuntan a mejorar la competitividad de las empresas locales (Defrainge, 2014;Gabusi, 2016).…”