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Active Local Governments and New Chinese Firms in Emerging Industries in Kunshan and Dongguan

In: China’s New Development Strategies

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  • Xun Zhang

    (Duke University)

  • Gary Gereffi

    (Duke University)

  • Cassandra C. Wang

    (Zhejiang University)

Abstract

Local governments have played an increasingly important role in China’s economic development since the 1990s. Comparing the industrial development processes of Kunshan and Dongguan, two export-oriented cities in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) and the Pearl River Delta (PRD), respectively, we analyze China’s involvement in global value chains (GVCs) from the bottom up and explore the evolution of active local governments in China since the 1980s. We argue that local governments have been learning and adapting to both national directives and GVCs with evolving governing styles, assuming an increasingly active role in local economic development. We highlight the different upgrading trajectories of Dongguan and Kunshan in the information and communication technology (ICT) GVC in response to industrial policies from local governments, China’s national development programs, and shifting strategies of foreign and domestic Chinese firms in the ICT industry.

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  • Xun Zhang & Gary Gereffi & Cassandra C. Wang, 2022. "Active Local Governments and New Chinese Firms in Emerging Industries in Kunshan and Dongguan," Springer Books, in: Gary Gereffi & Penny Bamber & Karina Fernandez-Stark (ed.), China’s New Development Strategies, pages 113-140, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-3008-9_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-3008-9_5
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