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| THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW REGIONALISM AND ITS IMPACTS UPON THE MODES OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA |
| WANG Tao1, ZENG Gang2 |
1. Geographical College, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China;
2. School of Resources & Environment Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China |
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Abstract Nowadays, there exits two trends in the world. They are globalization and regionalization. New regionalism came forth in the late of 1980's. During this period, international social-economic environment changed greatly. These changes lead to the fundamental differences between new regionalism and old regionalism, in the aspects of political economy, international trade, economic system, and targets of regional development. In the backgrounds of globalization and Post-Cold War Era, new regionalism represents three forms.First, the macroregionalism.Secondly the microregionalism.The last form of new regionalism refers to the domestic regional organizations. Under the impact of new regionalism, the present regional development models of China reflect two problems. One is that the models pay mo re attention to the agglomeration and diffusion effects of developmental factors in single region and neglect the cooperation and competition among regions. The other is that the models pay more focus on the resource disposition and effect and neglect the common benefit system caused by regional league. This paper claims that regional economic development strategy should be considered in three levels. First, the country as a whole unit takes part in various transnational regional cooperation organizations. Secondly the economic districts, taking cities as its core, form economic technological cooperation network with economic districts of other countries. Thirdly the domestic regional economic cooperation should be reinforced, and the operation of regional management organizations and institutions should be taken into account.
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Received: 25 August 2002
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2003, Vol. 18 
