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| STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL ORIENTATION OF SHAOGUAN CITY WITHIN THE NEW WORLD CITY SYSTEM |
| PAN Qiu-ling1,2, XUE De-sheng2, CAO Xiao-shu2 |
1. Center for Urban Regional Studies, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, 510275, China;
2. Institute of Human Geography, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an 710061, China |
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Abstract Shaoguan is a traditional heavy industry city.Along with the development of Zhujiang delta, shaoguan's predominance in industry has lost and its economy status in Guangdong province has also fallen gradually. Now Shaoguan faces an austere challenge, that is, whether it is qualitified for being an important center city in the north of Guangdong, and being a regional center city, which includes the north of Guangdong province, the south of Hunan province and the south of Guangxi municipality. The economic development of Shaoguan has been a focus of local government and academies. According to the Friedmann's theory of new world city system, and on the base of analysis of the crisis of Shaoguan's development, the paper discusses its position in the regional economic structure. The author also analyzes the powers which promo te the economic development of Shaoguan from internal and external aspects.The priorities include the shaoguan economical endocentric advantage, comparative advantage and the advantage caused by behind -development; and the external power refers the pervasion of industrial transformation in Zhujiang delta, and the policy support of regional equilibrium development stratagem in Guangdong province.
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Received: 10 February 2003
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2003, Vol. 18 
