Restructuring Industrial Districts, Scaling Up Regional Development: A Study of the Wenzhou Model, China

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E-Commerce, Taobao Villages and Regional Development in China* (2020, background): “However, the Wenzhou model is still largely manufacturing based, with problems of overcapacity, lack of economics of scale, and weak local innovation capacity, and is still troubled by structural, relational, and intergenerational lock-in (Wei et al 2007).”
BEYOND CONVERGENCE: SPACE, SCALE, AND REGIONAL INEQUALITY IN CHINA (2009, background): “Known for ‘petty commodities, large markets’, the Wenzhou model represents a successful trajectory of regional development centred on small scale, family-based, manufacturingoriented private enterprises, with distribution networks linking producers and consumers all over the country and extending to”
A variety of capitalism … with Chinese characteristics? (2013, background): “Recently, Wenzhou’s growth has faltered, degrading into an inauspicious development path based on the exploitation of family labor and low-tech manufacturing (Wei et al., 2007).”
Economic transition and urban transformation of China: The interplay of the state and the market (2015, background): “expansion of manufacturing and service activities, increasing regional disparity, the emergence of ‘new urban spaces’, and reformation of social classes (Lin, 2011; Logan, 2007; Ma and Wu, 2005; Wei and Fan, 2000; Wei et al., 2007; Yang and Yeh, 2013; Zhou and Ma, 2000).”