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Chapter 1 China's Push for the BRI in a Changing World: Origins and Motivations -- Chapter 2 BRI as China's Platform to Push for Economic Globalisation -- Chapter 3 China-ASEAN Cooperation under the BRI -- Chapter 4 Vietnam's Mixed Reactions to China and the BRI -- Chapter 5 The China-Singapore Chongqing Connectivity Project: A Cornerstone for bilateral relations -- Chapter 6 Riding on the BRI Train: Issues relating to China's Strengthening Ties with Cambodia.

This open access book provokes critical thinking regarding the most ambitious Chinese project since the founding of the People's Republic of China, The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The book presents extensive quality research and original insights in assessing the status of China's outbound investment and construction projects under the BRI umbrella. Referring to case studies and projects of selected countries from Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, the author sheds new light on the issues and problems associated with the BRI's implementation and discusses both the readjustments and prospects for the BRI. Finally, this book demarcates the limits and potential of the world's second largest economy in pushing for the BRI, which is challenged by enormous domestic tensions and external pressures. It also identifies and analyzes potential new collaboration areas between the Belt and Road countries and China under the BRI framework in the context of the post-COVID-19 era. It provides an outstanding reference for academics, students, policymakers, and the business community working in areas of international affairs and Asian economics and development, particularly those interested in Sino-relations and Chinese power dynamics in the global world order.

"In recent years, China 's leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation's next pillar industry. In Networking China , Yu Hong offers an overdue examination of that burgeoning sector's political economy. Hong focuses on how the state, in conjunction with market forces and class interests, is constructing and realigning its digitalized sector. State planners intend to build a more competitive ICT sector by modernizing the network infrastructure, corporatizing media-and-entertainment institutions, and by using ICT as a crosscutting catalyst for innovation, industrial modernization, and export upgrades. The goal: to end China's industrial and technological dependence upon foreign corporations while transforming itself into a global ICT leader. The project, though bright with possibilities, unleashes implications rife with contradiction and surprise. Hong analyzes the central role of information, communications, and culture in Chinese-style capitalism. She also argues that the state and elites have failed to challenge entrenched interests or redistribute power and resources, as promised. Instead, they prioritize information, communications, and culture as technological fixes to make pragmatic tradeoffs between economic growth and social justice"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figure -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1: General introduction -- The issue of regional inequality -- The significance of Guangdong -- Research methodology -- Chinese data, and associated limitations -- Research structure: overview -- PART I: Literature review framework of economic geography -- 2: Theoretical framework I -- Theories -- Conclusion -- 3: Theoretical framework II -- Regional divergence -- Regional economic convergence -- World evidence -- Conclusion -- PART II: Measurement of regional inequality -- 4: Geography and regional inequality in China -- Geography and regional economic growth -- Industrial clusters and economic agglomeration -- The developing trend towards regional inequality -- Conclusion -- 5: Measurement of the tendency for regional inequality in Guangdong -- Regional economic inequality -- Measurement of regional income inequality -- Regional inequality in Guangdong: a comparative perspective -- Inequality of human development within Guangdong -- Conclusion -- PART III: Cause analysis of regional inequality -- 6: Main-cause analysis of regional inequality in Guangdong -- Historical factors and regional economic growth -- Foreign direct investment and regional economic disparity -- Role of the post-1978 state and regional economic growth -- Conclusion -- 7: Main-cause analysis of regional inequality in Guangdong -- Geographical location and regional economic development -- Industrial clusters and economic agglomeration -- Transportation improvements and regional economic growth -- Empirical model analysis -- Final conclusion -- 8: General conclusion -- Appendix 1: National income per capita in counties of Guangdong, 1980-1990

"In recent years, China 's leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation's next pillar industry. In Networking China, Yu Hong offers an overdue examination of that burgeoning sector's political economy. Hong focuses on how the state, in conjunction with market forces and class interests, is constructing and realigning its digitalized sector. State planners intend to build a more competitive ICT sector by modernizing the network infrastructure, corporatizing media-and-entertainment institutions, and by using ICT as a crosscutting catalyst for innovation, industrial modernization, and export upgrades. The goal: to end China's industrial and technological dependence upon foreign corporations while transforming itself into a global ICT leader. The project, though bright with possibilities, unleashes implications rife with contradiction and surprise. Hong analyzes the central role of information, communications, and culture in Chinese-style capitalism. She also argues that the state and elites have failed to challenge entrenched interests or redistribute power and resources, as promised. Instead, they prioritize information, communications, and culture as technological fixes to make pragmatic tradeoffs between economic growth and social justice"--

ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Industrial upgrading in Guangdong -- ch. 3. China embarks on ambitious megacity plans in Guangdong -- ch. 4. Nansha new district in Guangdong : state initiatives and perspectives -- ch. 5. Development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei economic zone -- ch. 6. Developing China's Hainan into an international tourism destination -- ch. 7. Development of the central region in China -- ch. 8. China's western development strategy : ten years on -- ch. 9. Chengdu : a rising economic star in western China -- ch. 10. The Guangxi Beibu Gulf economic zone -- ch. 11. Inter-regional industrial transfer in China -- ch. 12. China's ghost cities.

This book offers extensive and quality research on and original insights into China's internal regional dynamics. It provides a focused analysis of the internal dynamics and regional economic diversity of China covering the eastern, central and western regions through case study, data analysis and review of state-initiated policy measures. The book also identifies and analyses existing and potential challenges facing China's regions in their pursuit of sustainable development. Different regions in China have attempted to achieve fast economic growth and move up the industrial value chain throu.

In Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development, Yu Hong examines crucial connections between the evolving political economy of information and communications technology (ICT) and the reconstitution of class relations in China. Situating China's ICT development over the last thirty years at the intersection of transnational trends, domestic policies, and institutional arrangements, Hong shows how evolving class relations in the ICT sector are shaped by and shaping the transnational capitalist dynamics and domestic socio-economic transformations.