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

By Fulong Wu. 2018

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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.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies

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Land financialisation and the financing of urban development in China (2019, background): “Some specific conduits have been formed under state entrepreneurialism (Wu, 2015b; Wu, 2018), such as local government financial vehicles as state-owned enterprises engaged mostly in land and infrastructure development.”
The state acts through the market: ‘State entrepreneurialism’ beyond varieties of urban entrepreneurialism (2020, methodology): “Consequently, the state is transformed into an entrepreneurial market agency – known as ‘state entrepreneurialism’ (Wu, 2017: 158; also, see Wu, 2018).”
Creating land markets for rural revitalization: Land transfer, property rights and gentrification in China (2020, background): “The recent reform in collective property rights points to how the government is increasingly deploying market mechanisms and instruments to carry out its territorial projects of spatial transformation (Kan, 2019b; Wu, 2018).”