The Pan-Pearl River Delta: An Emerging Regional Economy in a Globalizing ChinaYue-man Yeung, Jianfa Shen In June 2004, top leaders from Guangdong and the surrounding eight provinces of Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian, together with those of the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao, met in Hong Kong, Macao, and Guangzhou and gave birth to Pan-PRD regional grouping (hence the shorthand of "9+2"). This book studies the establishment, amid much fanfare, of this new regional grouping, and its roots in the interaction between globalization and regionalization. |
Contents
Historical and Cultural Diversity | 25 |
1 | 32 |
Communication Jiangxis Major Commercial Centres | 33 |
Treaty Ports and Guangxis Cities | 43 |
Geographical Background and Strategic Networking | 63 |
in China | 65 |
2 | 69 |
1 | 79 |
Region 2000 | 211 |
Regional Inequality | 241 |
Guangdong | 273 |
Guangdong | 292 |
Guangxi | 299 |
Yunnan | 331 |
Guizhou | 361 |
Sichuan | 385 |
The Economic Basis of Regionalization | 89 |
Infrastructure and Economic Development | 115 |
2 | 123 |
Region | 127 |
Education and Manpower Training | 143 |
3 | 152 |
Urban and Regional Development | 173 |
1 | 179 |
4 | 185 |
2004 | 187 |
2003 | 193 |
Population Distribution and Growth | 207 |
Sichuan | 392 |
Hunan | 411 |
191 | 430 |
Jiangxi | 435 |
Fujian | 467 |
Hainan | 491 |
Hong Kong | 513 |
the Government Level | 532 |
Macao | 549 |
Glossary | 573 |
Common terms and phrases
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