Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism

作者：Li, Yi; Chen, Wen^*; Wu, Fulong

来源：Territory Politics Governance, 2023.

DOI：10.1080/21622671.2023.2206430

• regional cooperation
• city-regionalism
• governance
• state entrepreneurialism
• Yangtze River Delta
• China

The past decade has witnessed a variety of city-regional projects across the world. However, the geopolitical motivation or regional coalition alone cannot fully explain the actual mechanism of city-regionalism in the Chinese context. Drawing on the governance framework of state entrepreneurialism, this article distinguishes between the processes of centrally orchestrated regional imaginary and regional cooperation through multi-scalar alliances in the making of Chinese city-regions. By tracing the latest national strategy of the Yangtze River Delta regional integration and three different cases with concrete practices, this paper suggests that the recent rise of city-regionalism reflects the dynamic development of state entrepreneurialism beyond the urban scale.

• 单位
  中国科学院研究生院; 河海大学