The Development of Guangdong: China's Economic Powerhouse
广东的发展：中国经济的动力

by Joseph Yu-Shek Cheng


ISBN: 9789813237360    Binding: Hardback      Pages: 368 pp
list price: USD148.00 / GBP 130.00
Publication date:2018.6 (Asia)
                             2018.8(Rest of the World)
 

Description

This volume examines the development of Guangdong, especially the Pearl River Delta, throughout the era of China's economic reforms and opening to the external world (from 1978 till now). It analyzes the evolution from a labour-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing base to a heavy-industry based economy, then to a high-tech manufacturing center cum regional business services center. This book focusses on the planning and development strategies of the Guangdong leadership and its local counterparts, their interactions with the central leadership, the learning and adaptation processes involved by stages, and the problems and challenges ahead. The author adopts a chronological approach, thus enabling the readers to study the development processes in detail, taking into consideration the benefits offered by as well as the crises in the domestic and international environment.
 
 
Contents

Guangdong's Development Since 1978: An Overview; Organizational Reforms in Local Government in Guangdong in the Early Reform Era; Structures and Functions of Town and Township Governments in Guangdong; Guangdong's New Development Strategy; Guangdong in the Twenty-first Century: Stagnation or Second Take-off?; Guangdong: The Challenges of WTO; Guangdong: Challenges and Contradictions in the Global Financial Crisis, 2008–2009; Reforms to Meet the Challenges of Economic Development in the Recent Decade; Guangdong's Administrative Reforms in Recent Years; Hong Kong's Challenges from the Economic Integration of the Pearl River Delta;
 
 
Readership

Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in the development of China's Guangdong Province and the Pearl River Delta region.

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