Business-promoted city-regionalism? New Industrial City projects by China Fortune Land Development
研究了华夏幸福基业在中小城市开发新工业城市项目,揭示了一种商业推动的城市区域主义机制,即地方政府与私营企业长期合作开发产业园区,体现了中国特色的国家创业主义。
Drawing upon the New Industrial City (NIC) projects by China Fortune Land Development (CFLD), a Shanghai stock-listed top 10 real estate enterprise, this article accounts for the emergence of business-promoted city-regionalism as a novel mechanism for industrial zone development in small cities near large metropolises. Lacking sufficient capital and professional personnel, local governments of these small cities made long-term contracts with CFLD, a private company, to build and develop industrial zones under the brand CFLD NIC. This novel phenomenon demonstrates the state orchestration of business-promoted city-regionalism, namely, a variegated form of state entrepreneurialism prevalent in China.