Challenges and Responses in Urban Governance Under Scientific Development
本文分析了中国城市治理中阻碍可持续城市化的三个关键制度因素：国家经济政策、地方政府财政压力和土地管理中的自由裁量权，并提出了制度建设和政策建议。
The scientific outlook on development has imposed new requirements, new directions, and new constraints on urban development in China. The challenge facing every city is to shift the current course of urbanization toward more sustainable development on the basis of local contexts. In this paper, we analyze key problems in urban governance in China that prohibit sustainable urbanization. We focus on three key institutional factors including: national economic policy, fiscal pressure on city governments, and unconstrained discretion power in land administration. In response to these problems, we propose institutional building strategies and specific policy recommendations for city governments that facilitate sustainable urban governance in China.