LOCAL GOVERNMENT,ENTERPRISES AND INDIVIDUALS:ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN THE PEARL RIVER DELTA—A Case Study in Beijiao Township,Shunde City

作     者：De-sheng Xue Xiao-pei Yan Graham Johnson 

作者机构：Center for Urban and Regional Studies Zhongshan University Guangzhou P. R. China Center for Chinese Research University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada 

出 版 物：《Chinese Geographical Science》 (中国地理科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2001年第11卷第3期

页      面：20-31页

核心收录：

学科分类：02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 020202[经济学-区域经济学] 

基　　金：UndertheauspicesoftheNationalNaturalScienceFoundationofChinaNo.49801006andCanadianInternationalDevelopmentAgencyCIDAProject 

主　　题：economic transformation local gov ernment enterprise individual 

摘      要：The Pearl River(Zhujiang)Delta(PRD)has been a focal point in reform era ac ademic circles not only for its dramatic industrial growth but a lso the simultaneous agricultural *** most of existing research on the PRDeconomic development and transformation fromthe whole region level,this paper explored this question f romthe perspec-tive of a township using Beijiao in Shunde City as a case *** the c onclusions of existing studies whic h attribute the regional economic transition to the macro factors,particularly the influence of external investment,t his research re-veals that at the level of township,t he local government,the town-villa ge owned enterprises and the individ uals have been playing remarkable roles in local economic *** the early stage since the economic reform,Beijiao township government,replacing the central a nd provincial governments before,b egan to manipulate the development o f town-village owned enterprises and lead the local economic transformation from agricultural to industrial *** the town-village owned enterprises grew during the later years,they gra dually acted as the main dominant pla yer leading the local agricultural and industrial *** the same time the individuals in Beijiao were playing more in dependent role to gain their most *** the local government changed to be t he real manager of local economies.S o the local economic transition was not entirely externally *** another word,the“driven from outsidemodel can not totally explain the economic fact in this specific region.