Typical Cases in Northwest China

Yazhuo Zheng and Kent Deng
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Yazhuo Zheng: Beijing Enlightenment Institute for Economic and Social Research
Kent Deng: London School of Economics

Chapter 3 in State Failure and Distorted Urbanisation in Post-Mao's China, 1993–2012, 2018, pp 25-64 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we have described three typical cases in Northwest of urbanisation and industrialisation—Lanzhou New District, Ordos District and Xining Development Zone. We illustrate how urbanisation led by state developed fast in underdeveloped regions. All the local governments tried to build new cities on barren land despite high cost and low efficiency. They disobeyed the natural law of market and their attempt failed unsurprisingly. Lots of waste of resources was created. In all our cases, the financial back-up for creation of new cities came ultimately from leases of the state-owned landstate-owned land. This is the main legacy of the Maoist institutions.

Keywords: Construction-pulled urbanisation; State-led growth; Infrastructure; Industrial configuration; High pollutant and high energy-dependent enterprises; H-T Divide; New District; Ghost city; Housing bubble; Industrial recession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92168-6_3

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