A new model of village urbanization? Coordinative governance of state-village relations in Guangzhou City, China

Siu Wai Wong, Yao Dai, Bo-sin Tang and Jinlong Liu

Land Use Policy, 2021, vol. 109, issue C

Abstract: China’s ongoing urbanization has profoundly reshaped local governance with an increasing emphasis on reducing urban-rural inequalities through public investment in the rural areas in order to enhance the wellbeing of villagers. Drawing from more than one decade of intensive field research in a peri-urban area of Guangzhou, our study elucidates how the process of village urbanization has developed into a tri-partite partnership between the local state, the village organizations and the villagers in village asset management and welfare provision. This collaborative model presents an alternative approach to the top-down, state-led urbanization model which has notoriously led to landless villagers and economic dispossession in village urbanization. It also differs from the bottom-up, village corporatist model which tends to oppose integrated urban-rural development. This study attempts to conceptualize the delicate interdependency of the local state, the village collectives and villagers. Our findings offer new insights into the restructuring of state-village relations and explain its implications for community capacity building in periurban China.

Keywords: Local governance; Social Welfare; Peri-Urban; Urbanization; Collaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105500

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