Worlding Developmentalism: China's Economic Zones Within and Beyond its Border

This paper examines the development of Economic Zones in post‐reform China and the recent export of zoning practices as a part of the country's ‘going global’ strategy. I propose ‘worlding developmentalism’ to conceptualise the synergy between a polymorphous yet capable state in directing the p...

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Published inJournal of international development Vol. 29; no. 6; pp. 825 - 850
Main Author Fei, Ding
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.08.2017
Subjects
China
Cooperation
Developmentalism
Directing
Economic development
Economic opportunities
Economic Zones
Employee promotions
Export processing zones
International cooperation
Paradigms
Transnationalism
urbanisation
Ventures
worlding
Zoning
China
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Summary:This paper examines the development of Economic Zones in post‐reform China and the recent export of zoning practices as a part of the country's ‘going global’ strategy. I propose ‘worlding developmentalism’ to conceptualise the synergy between a polymorphous yet capable state in directing the path of domestic growth and overseas ventures, and a population who actively captures emerging economic opportunities in transnational contexts. The concept is then substantiated by the promotion of Economic Zones under the Belt and Road Initiative and China–Africa Cooperation. The contested spaces produced in the Global South under these new development paradigms necessitate keen scholarly investigation. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN:0954-1748
1099-1328
DOI:10.1002/jid.3277