China's Pan-Pearl River Delta: Regional Cooperation and Development
Anthony G. O. Yeh and Jiang Xu
Abstract
Cities and regions in Asia are facing problems that cannot be adequately managed by traditional urban planning. Competition and local protectionism have often hindered infrastructural development and regional integration. In southern China, an area embracing one-fifth of China and one-third of its population, the economies and societies of nine provinces, together with Hong Kong and Macao, face many barriers to regional collaboration. Fiscal regulatory conflicts, land and housing reform, and bottlenecks in immigration and transport have stymied efforts to develop infrastructure that could spur ... More
Cities and regions in Asia are facing problems that cannot be adequately managed by traditional urban planning. Competition and local protectionism have often hindered infrastructural development and regional integration. In southern China, an area embracing one-fifth of China and one-third of its population, the economies and societies of nine provinces, together with Hong Kong and Macao, face many barriers to regional collaboration. Fiscal regulatory conflicts, land and housing reform, and bottlenecks in immigration and transport have stymied efforts to develop infrastructure that could spur economic growth and greater prosperity for the entire region. This book examines regional integration and its barriers in southern China in a comparative framework using perspectives on development and globalization from Europe and North America. Supported by maps and charts, this collection discusses the theory, challenges, and practice of development in an area comprising nearly a third of China's population.
Keywords:
Asia,
urban planning,
infrastructural development,
regional integration,
southern China,
barriers,
globalization
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9789888028504 |
| Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: September 2011 |
DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789888028504.001.0001 |
