60年代以来,世界不少发达国家在区域发展上奉行过"增长中心"政策。本文在大量文献阅读和实地调查的基础上,对澳大利亚增长中心政策的形成和实践过程进行了理论分析和实例研究。经定量分析和组织活动研究,文章认为该政策在澳大利亚是失败的。其失败的原因可对我国有关政策的制订提供有益启示。

Many developed countries have adopted the growth centre strategy for regional development since 1960s.This Paper analyzes the formation of growth centre policy and its practice in Australia, on the base of review of large amount of relevant literature and data sourced from the author's own surveys A thorough case study of the national growth centre, Albury-Wodonga. with consideration of both quantitative analysis and enterprise information, concludes that growth centre policy in Australia has not been successful in practice. Factors that caused failure of the policy are then discussed and some suggestions made to remind the policy-makers in China.