City strategic coupling in practice: regional cooperation under the Greater Bay Area
提出城市战略耦合框架，将城市视为主动塑造区域发展的主体，以深圳与周边城市合作为例，说明城市如何通过多利益相关方外交重新定义区域一体化，并将区域资产嵌入全球生产网络。
Beyond a conventional, economically deterministic view of city-regions, this article introduces a city strategic coupling framework to recast cities as proactive, autonomous agents in orchestrating regional trajectories. It integrates state and market dynamics, moving beyond embedded statism to propel regional growth. The case of Shenzhen’s collaborations with neighbouring cities illustrates how urban centres leverage multi-stakeholder diplomacy to redefine regional integration. Within this strategic landscape, city-regions transcend a nation-state’s constructive paradigm as its constituent cities actively forge partnerships with other cities and global capital, synthesising diverse stakeholder imperatives to embed regional assets into global production networks to materialise shared development ambitions.