Research Centre for Urban and Regional Development

Formation of City-regions from Bottom-up Initiatives:
Investigating Coalitional Developmentalism in the Pearl River Delta

22 April 2021   |   Online

Speaker
Dr Xianchun Zhang

Assistant Professor, Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University

Co-organizer
Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK

In this seminar, Dr Xianchun Zhang from Zhejiang University will present his work on the local developmental state (LDS) amidst the backdrop of city-regionalization in China. Assembled with the proactive capability of seeking socioeconomic growth through redefining state-business relations, the LDS under city-regionalization has been giving rise to new coalitional strategies and an organizational structure oriented to coalitional politics. The formation of a cross-jurisdictional Shenzhen-Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone, consisting of two geographically nonadjacent municipalities, will be examined as a case study.

Zoom link: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/97360375790 (no password required)