全球化空间重组与中国长三角城市“呼应构想”

江苏南部昆山的案例研究显示:在经济全球化时代,中国的长三角地区正创造一个崭新的全球化空间。文章延用城市呼应构想概念,来具体解释地方的这种发展驱动策略和政策,包括经济上的重组和政治/行政上的重构。在与临近城市上海的并行发展中,昆山是如何通过机会袭夺以改变国内外投资的策略取向,进而超越这些大城市中心以完善并扩展自己的经济联系。这一调查结果显示地方政府在决定城市和区域发展中仍然扮演了具有举无轻重的角色,这不仅应对了全球化进程,更是加速了长三角地区的全球化作用和联系。

PACES OF GLOBALISATION AND THE URBAN ECHO IN CHINA''''S LOWER YANGZI DELTA

A detailed case study of Kunshan in southern Jiangsu is utilised to highlight the creation of new spaces of globalisation in China's lower Yangzi Delta region. The notion of an urban echo is introduced to move towards re-conceptualising the resulting shift in the patterns and processes of urban transition in China's extended metropolitan regions. The term emerges from local strategies adopted in areas away from large urban centres to create a positive or constructive echo of developments in mega-cities like Shanghai and especially the Pudong New Area. The paper seeks to extend this notion to illustrate how specific locally driven development strategies and policies, including economic repositioning and political/administrative restructuring, explicitly seek to globalise areas like Kunshan by leap-frogging places like Shanghai and Pudong to directly mobilise international investment, production linkages and commodity chains. Parallel developments in nearby cities such as Shanghai are taken as opportunities to revise and redirect domestic and foreign investment strategies to complement and extend economic linkages beyond those large urban centres. The findings emphasise that local forces continue to play a critically important role in determining the contours of urban and regional development, both as response to, and to further stimulate, accelerated global interactions and interrelationships in the lower Yangzi Delta.