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This study illuminates the important yet under-studied phenomenon of industrial transfer in China: the migration of capital and investment from wealthy coastal areas into poorer central and western provinces, beginning in the 2000s. By 2015, the value of domestic investment in five central provinces alone was 2.5 times that of foreign investment throughout China. Compared to the original "flying geese" model of tiered production in Asia, China's experience is distinct in three ways: (1) industrial transfer occurred domestically, rather than across nations; (2) sub-national transfer followed cross-national transfer; and (3) industrial migration is accompanied by a delayed replication of government policies and practices. While coastal locales today resolve to expel low-end industries, inland governments cannot afford to be selective and have only recently adopted the aggressive investment promotion tactics that coastal cities abandoned years ago. Policy diffusion is delayed as policy adoption depends on economic conditions, which vary widely across China and change over time. (China Q/GIGA)

Well-designed industrial policies can improve a nation's economic performance. Using a range of tools, such as subsidies, tax incentives, infrastructure development, protective regulations, and R&D support, governments are able to support specific industries or economic activities.Steve Coulter examines the patterns of industrial policymaking across late capitalist societies. Drawing on case studies from a range of countries, each with different growth models, national capabilities, policy traditions, and political/welfare state regimes, he is able to offer a nuanced comparative assessment of states' responses to specific economic challenges. The book draws broad conclusions about the trajectories of industrial policy and highlights key technical and political drivers that policymakers consider when addressing whether best practice should centre on general or nationally-specific approaches. The book also focuses on fresh challenges and opportunities for industrial policy and questions the sustainability of current policy practice.

This enlightening book provides the first systematic introduction to, and exploration of, the emerging system of industrial relations in China, and draws on the authors' extensive research and direct involvement in the developments taking place. The authors argue that there are both unifying and fragmenting elements to the ongoing development of industrial relations, but overall it is one in which the state continues to maintain a major, and direct, influence. Divisions between workers and managers may be escalating with increased open conflicts, but this book reveals that the picture is far more complex and contradictory than to assume that the solution is convergence with western style industrial relations systems. They conclude that industrial relations institutions and processes still act within a political context and with the guiding hand of the Chinese Communist party. Industrial Relations in China draws on up-to-date material and will ensure the book's appeal to industrial relations and Chinese scholars. It will also appeal to a wider audience of Asian labour and development studies scholars

"This title provides an overall view of industrial geography in the context of contemporary China and investigates the development processes, research paradigms and achievements of China's industrial geography, with a particular focus on the post-reform period. The first two chapters introduce the overall background of industrialization and evolving policies of industrial geography in contemporary China. Based on sweeping literature reviews, empirical data analysis, and case studies, the author then examines key aspects of industrial geography and geographical patterns, dynamics, and the impact of industrial development. The following topics are discussed in detail: the geographical distribution and agglomeration of industries; national industrial parks; urbanization and industrialization; regional evolution of industries and interregional networks; firms and industrial organisations; exports, foreign investment, and trade; labor migration; land supply; industrial innovation; environmental issues and regulations; and industrial planning. In providing a full picture of the industrial geography of contemporary China, the title will be an essential reference for scholars and students studying economic geography, industrial geography, and the industrial and economic development of the People's Republic."

The Chinese agri-food industry is evolving into an imperfectly competitive market in our observation. The issue deserves more attention from the policymakers since any negligible departure from the perfectly competitive market in agriculture would generate enormous extra profits for firms and welfare loss for the society. This consequence is determined by the agricultural industry's natures of small price elasticity of demand and frequent consumption behaviors. Therefore, ignoring imperfect competition in the marketing sector may result in erroneous government implements and policy recommendations. The objective of this dissertation is to better understand the roles of industrial policies on market structure and market power in the agribusiness of China. To measure the impact of policy intervening on the competitiveness of the agricultural industry, we choose to estimate two important policy tools: (1) centralized slaughtering policy and (2) subsidies. These two policies are typical representatives of government regulations and industrial support policies, respectively. The sampled industries involved in my dissertation are the (1) hog slaughtering industry and (2) fluid milk industry. They share some similar characteristics, such as sheer-size production and consumption, concentrated market structure, and daily-essential livestock products. But the difference should be noted as well between which the hog slaughtering industry mainly produces homogenous products, while the fluid market industry is strong product differentiated. Our results indicate that (1) the centralized slaughtering policy cause sizable and significant market power (about 0.5% price margin) for the slaughtering industry in the pork supply chain, mainly due to high barriers of entry and stringent license regulations which reduce competition in the market. The total markup profits for the slaughtering industry reaches 1.85 billion yuan just in 2016. (2) Government dairy subsidies have a negative impact on the Lerner Index for the top privately-controlled firms, but no significant effect on state-controlled ones after controlling for advertising, time trend, and proprietorship. It is possible that the subsidies give more room for private firms to increase the scale or suppress the price, which eventually reduces the market power and benefits dairy customers in the downstream. (3) The imported fluid milk owns a significant Lerner index (0.79), but its markup value is much smaller than that of the Chinese domestic competitors. It is possible that the brand loyalty of the consumers promotes the market power of the quality-guaranteed imported products from overseas. However, limited access to imported fluid milk and marginal sales reduce the imported's extra profits. The originality of our thesis is to build up the bridge between the policy implements with the reality of the imperfectly competitive agricultural market in China. Our work indicates that industrial policy should be prudent and well-advised since it might promote a less competitive market with higher markup profits, which eventually would lead to more welfare loss.

ABSTRACTAs China has emerged as a great economic power in the 21st century, comparativists and China scholars have sought to explore the characteristics of China's statist development model. Most accounts, however, have not taken seriously the policy implications of China's macroeconomic imbalance and its tendency to overproduction since the mid‐1990s. This article examines China's industrial‐policy‐centred responses to waves of overproduction crises from the late 1990s to the 2010s. China's expansive industrial policy incorporates demand‐side macroeconomic policy and long‐term planning for upgrading. This policy framework, designed to preserve the status quo, has been inherently lopsided, and has only served to reproduce China's macroeconomic imbalance. In the context of this persistent imbalance, China's industrial‐policy‐centred responses have contributed to periodic investment expansion of the state sector relative to the private sector, deepening ambitions around upgrading, and growing controversies regarding its statist model. In short, the statist features of China's economy have been periodically amplified by its particular responses to overproduction. This research shows that far from a statist shift engineered by President Xi Jinping, China's recent statist tendency has deeper historical and structural‐macroeconomic roots. This implies that the Chinese state adjusted and intensified its state interventions just as it underwent a profound process of marketization in the late 1990s.