City-region integration policies and their incongruous outcomes: the case of Shantou-Chaozhou-Jieyan

• 作 者: YiLi[1]FulongWu[2]
• 机 构: School of Geography and Oceanographic Science,Research Centre of Human Geography,Nanjing University,
• 出 处: 第五届海峡两岸经济地理学研讨会
• 发表日期: 2014年期

　　The Guangdong Provincial government envisages the three cities of Shantou,Chaozhou,and Jieyang co-operation and development.In consequence,it has sought to mobilize the regions untapped resources through policies and practices encouraging those cities integration and growth.However,the rhetoric of inter-city integration has not yielded concordant material outcomes.Instead,the three separate municipal governments have engaged with the policy agenda not in pursuit of co-operation and integration,but rather to take advantage of otherwise unavailable opportunities to boost their individual economic competitiveness.This paper examines the disjuncture between the rhetoric of inter-city co-operation and the material reality of competition in the Shantou-Chaozhou-Jieyang city-region.The paper takes significance first,in its critical exploration of state-city integrative relationships that are increasingly common as regional development policies and projects proliferate in China.Its second point of significance lies in its contribution to broader literatures on city-regionalism and state rescaling.