Reworking uneven geographical development: the spatial logic of China’s rural banking reforms
从金融地理和国家空间重构视角，分析中国农村银行改革如何通过空间逻辑应对城乡发展不均衡，对理解国家与金融的空间关系有参考价值。
Abstract Drawing on financial geography literature and the concept of state rescaling, this article investigates the state–finance nexus with an emphasis on state spatial reconfiguration. Through a historically and geographically informed political economic analysis, it argues that China’s state-led, market-oriented rural banking reforms are not merely the outcome of a deepening market logic within the financial administration of the rural sector. They are also crucial for state spatial reconfiguration to address uneven rural and urban development. The article calls for greater sensitivity towards relational spatiotemporality and uneven development to comprehend fully the spatiality of the state–finance nexus.