SPATIAL GOVERNANCE AND LOCAL RESPONSE OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT: THE RISE OF THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY IN CHONGQING
GAO Bo-yang1, LIU Wei-dong2,3
1. Department of Urban and Real Estate Management, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, China;
2. Institute of Geographic Sciences and National Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;
3. Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
Abstract In recent years, China's spatial governance has continued to evolve and revolve around the "bottomup" approach. Since China's reform and opening up, the central government has largely relaxed its jurisdiction and control over local governments in an effort to promote decentralization. This allowed local governments to carry institute political reforms within their jurisdiction in areas such as taxation, land, labor, and other factors. At the same time, local governments also actively seek out special benefits from the central government in hope of attaining more autonomy to execute and experiment groundbreaking reforms to local policies. This paper focuses on the political relationship between the central government and local governments and the latter's ability to enhance spatial governance through instituting reforms within their political framework. Using the development of Chongqing electronics information industry as an example, the paper analyzes the influence of government policies on local industries. As a centrally administered municipality, Chongqing made use of its "strong government" political resources and administrative capacity to obtain numerous Special Administration platforms from the central government. Using these platforms and benefits, the municipal government instituted drastic reforms in many areas including changes to the household registration system and land system etc. These policies set out effectively laid foundational works in the long run to expand economic markets and continuously promote industrial growth.
2016, Vol. 31 
