Abstract
The view that the government can accelerate national economic development and growth by encouraging the economic growth of selected regions or cities seems to have been accepted by Chinese authorities. In effect, such a policy involves the promotion of uneven or unbalanced regional development — the ‘forced’ growth of particular areas, very often with the expectation that this growth will radiate out to a wider area at a later stage. Such a policy was enunciated clearly by Zhao Ziyang in 1987 at the Thirteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He said:
It is necessary to consolidate and develop the pattern of opening to the outside world that has begun to take shape, with the open policy extending progressively from the special economic zones to coastal cities, then to coastal economic regions and finally to interior areas. With the overall interests of the national economy in mind, we should draw up a correct development plan for all these zones, cities and regions. They should focus on development of export-oriented economy and expand their horizontal economic ties with the interior areas, so as to serve more effectively as a base for implementing the open policy and as a window open to the outside world. (Zhao Ziyang, 1987, p. 27)
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
BUCKNALL, K.B. (1989) China and the Open Door Policy, Allen & Unwin, Sydney and London.
FRANK, A.G. (1978) Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment, Macmillan, London.
HARDING, H. (1989) China’s Second Revolution: Reform After Mao, Allen & Unwin, Sydney and London.
MARSHALL, A. (1961) Principles of Economics, 9th (variorum) edn, Macmillan, London.
SAMUELSON, P.A. (1947) Foundation of Economic Analysis, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
TISDELL, C.A. (1972) Microeconomics: The Theory of Economic Allocation, Wiley, Sydney and New York.
TISDELL, C.A. (1975) ‘The theory of optimal city-sizes: elementary speculation about analysis and policy’, Urban Studies, 12, pp. 61–70.
TISDELL, C.A. (1981) Microeconomics of Markets, Wiley, Brisbane, New York.
TISDELL, C.A. (1987) ‘Imperialism, economic dependence and development: a brief review of economic thought and theory’, Humanomics, 3, pp. 6–29.
TISDELL, C.A. (1990) Natural Resources, Growth and Development, Praeger, New York.
ZHAO ZIYANG (1987) ‘Advance along the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics’, report delivered at the Thirteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China 25 October 1987, pp. 3–80 in Documents of the Thirteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (1987), Foreign Languages Press, Beijing.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1993 Clement Tisdell
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Tisdell, C. (1993). Regional and Urban Development: Government Intervention. In: Economic Development in the Context of China. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230380189_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230380189_5
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-39001-4
Online ISBN: 978-0-230-38018-9
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance CollectionEconomics and Finance (R0)