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China in transition: institutional change at work in inland waterway transport on the Yangtze River
Institution:1. Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;2. National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), UMR 8504 Géographie-cités, F-75006 Paris, France;1. School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, No. 3, Shangyuan Cun, Beijing 100044, China;2. Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom;3. Economic and Planning Research Institute, Chinese Railways, Beijing, 100038, China;1. Renewable Energy School, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, China;2. Tianjin Port (Group) Co., LTD., Tianjin, 300461, China;3. China Waterborne Transport Research Institute, Beijing, 100088, China;1. Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, PO Box 80115, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands;2. Department of Transport and Planning, Faculty of Civil Technology and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands;1. Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH, Theresianumgasse 7, 1040 Vienna, Austria;2. Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH, Theresianumgasse 7, 1040 Vienna, Austria;3. Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH, Theresianumgasse 7, 1040 Vienna, Austria;4. Vienna University of Technology, Institut of Management Science, Theresianumgasse 7, 1040 Vienna, Austria;5. Vienna University of Technology, Institut of Management Science, Theresianumgasse 7, 1040 Vienna, Austria;6. Polytechnic of Bari, Department of Mathematics, Mechanics and Management, Viale Japigia 182, Bari 70126, Italy;1. Environmental Change Institute, Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford, United Kingdom;2. School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma, United States;3. College of Engineering, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma, United States
Abstract:Chinese national fiscal reforms and the transfer of power from the central government to local governments impact the governance of inland waterway transport (IWT). In this paper we argue that the development of IWT on the Yangtze River is strongly influenced by institutional changes at different levels of government in line with the path dependent transformation of the Chinese centrally planned economy. This paper deduces how institutional change of IWT on the Yangtze fails to fulfil its purposes because of institutional legacies and conflicts of interests among the various levels of government and the persistent interwovenness of the state with private enterprises (via SOEs). In order to further stimulate IWT on the Yangtze more institutional changes are on the cards, in particular a need for more (foreign) private involvement and more independent SOEs, but these changes will not necessarily break out of the development path.
Keywords:Institutions  Governance  Path Dependence  Path Creation  Inland Waterway Transport  The Yangtze River China
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