Understanding city-regionalism in China: regional cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta

Yi Li and Fulong Wu

Regional Studies, 2018, vol. 52, issue 3, 313-324

Abstract: Understanding city-regionalism in China: regional cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta. Regional Studies. China has witnessed the orchestration of city-regionalism and two different regional-scale mechanisms have influenced this integration and cooperation: the top-down state-mandated process and the bottom-up process initiated by local governments. However, this has not been a smooth process and it is shaped by the internal politics generated by China’s state configurations. Using the Yangtze River Delta as a case study, this paper argues that China’s territorial administrative divisions are a historical configuration that is essential to understand the efforts to construct city-regions as well as to understand the failure to create a new sub-national state space.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2017.1307953

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