Urban administrative restructuring, changing scale relations and local economic development in China

By L. Ma. 2005

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies

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The Rapid Urban Growth Triad: A New Conceptual Framework for Examining the Urban Transition in Developing Countries (2017, background): “During this time, China underwent a series of economic and political reforms, part of which involved the government implementing three national/spatial policies underpinned by the notion of reclassifying areas as urban: city administering county, converting county to city, and in some cases, large c”
New local state power through administrative restructuring – A case study of post-Mao China county-level urban entrepreneurialism in Kunshan (2013, background): “Therefore, residents of non-city administrations pushed to see their localities achieve urban status (Ma, 2005; Chung, 2010; Chien, 2010b).”
Can transport infrastructure change regions’ economic fortunes? Some evidence from Europe and China (2017, background): “…because Suzhou prefecturelevel city that includes Suzhou urban districts and four sub-regions (county-level cities) reflects a ‘city-leadingcounty’ administrative system (Ma, 2005) through administrative restructuring and annexation that promotes ‘inflated urbanisation’ (Chung & Lam, 2004, p. 945).”
(Post)Suburban Development and State Entrepreneurialism in Beijing's Outer Suburbs (2011, background): “The status of c̀ity' was officially given to an urban administrative entity that met certain minimum criteria of population size and nonagricultural production (Ma, 2005, page 482; Zhang and Zhao, 1998).”
When are Cities Engines of Growth in China? Spread and Backwash Effects across the Urban Hierarchy (2013, background): “Likewise, China could follow the leadership of other countries and consider further decentralization in its regional policy, though such policies may have ambiguous effects (for example, MA, 2005; PIKE et al., 2010).”
Urbanization of Capital or Capitalization on Urban Land? Land Development and Local Public Finance in Urbanizing China (2011, background): “In the current Chinese administrative system, subprovincial localities include the cities at the prefectural level (diji shi), county level (xianji shi), and rural counties (xian) (Ma, 2005; Zhang and Wu, 2006; Lin, 2009b).”
Territorial Urbanization and the Party-State in China (2015, background): “…comes closest to analysing the administrative divisions is the literature on the ‘spatial administrative hierarchy’ (CARTIER, 2005, 2011; CHAN, 2007, 2010; CHUNG and LAM, 2009; FITZGERALD, 2002; MA, 2005), which treats the territorial administrative system through subnational levels of government.”
Restructuring for growth in urban China: Transitional institutions, urban development, and spatial transformation (2012, background): “Land reclamation and development, especially in the forms of administrative rescaling and development zones, become the most important instruments of entrepreneurial states (Ma, 2005).”
Does Flattening Government Improve Economic Performance (2015, neutral): “For example, under the CPC system a prefecture-level city commonly tends to favour its city proper at the expense of its subordinate counties (Ma, 2005).”
Urbanization and informal development in China: Urban villages in Shenzhen (2009, background): “China’s recent rapid entry into the global system under the unique combination of socialism and a market economy has created new social and spatial divisions (Gaubatz, 1999; Wu and Yeh, 1999; Logan, 2002; Pannell, 2002; Wei and Lin, 2002; Ma, 2005; Ma and Wu, 2005; Wei, 2005; Lin, 2006; 2007; McGee,”