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Spatial planning is considered as an important governance instrument to cope with uncoordinated regional problems. This article explores the underlying rationale and mechanisms of spatial planning in provincial China through a case study of the Jiangsu region along the Yangtze River (JSYR) plan. It reveals that the practice of the JSYR plan reflected the changing strategic expression of the provincial government on regional development and was shaped by the contests between provincial and municipal governments. The planning policies and provincial economic and political mobilizations formed as a spatial policy framework that promoted plan implementation at the municipal level. The plan achieved development goals of overall economic growth and infrastructural construction, but it was ineffective regarding development control and regional coordination. The case study also sheds light on the dynamic relationship between provincial and municipal governments, and the structural problems of spatial governance under economic decentralization and political centralization in China. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

The Hong Kong government was less active in regional integration before 2003. This study explores what conditions have contributed to the shifting of the Hong Kong government's stance on Hong Kong-Shenzhen integration from protectionism to cooperation since 2003. In addition to secondary data, a questionnaire survey and interviews were conducted in this study. Various external and internal economic, political and social factors that have contributed to the emergence of government-led strategy for regional integration in Hong Kong are analyzed. It is found that regional integration is facilitated by consensus building among the government, political parties, other interest groups and residents within Hong Kong. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Urbanization and development in China -- Urbanization and hukou reform -- Urban and regional restructuring -- Regional development and governance -- Outline of the book -- 2 Scale, state and the urban transformation in post-reform China -- Introduction -- Scale theory and sociospatial transformation -- Rescaling the central and local states -- Changing city scales and urban territorialization -- Conclusion -- 3 Dual-track urbanization in post-reform China -- Introduction -- An interpretive framework of Chinese urbanization -- State-sponsored urbanization in the pre-reform period -- Dual-track urbanization in the post-reform period -- Empirical analysis of dual-track urbanization in China -- Conclusion -- 4 Spatial analysis of the urban system in Guangdong -- Introduction -- Expanding urbanization under the socialist market economy in post-reform China -- Definition of city size, data and methodology -- Differentials in the rank-size distribution of the urban system using population and economic indicators -- The role of economic development in the process of urbanization -- Conclusion -- 5 Urban growth and sustainable development in Shenzhen city -- Introduction -- Urban economic growth -- Migration and population growth -- Impact on agriculture and environmental pollution -- Conclusion -- 6 Economic relations between Hong Kong and mainland China -- Introduction -- Hong Kong's ranking as a competitive center -- Economic integration before and after the handover in 1997 -- Cross-boundary investment between Hong Kong and mainland China -- Trade between Hong Kong and mainland China -- Growth of Hong Kong's logistics and tourism industries -- Challenges posed by changing economic relations -- Conclusion