Book contents
- The Belt Road and Beyond
- The Belt Road and Beyond
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Map
- Tables
- Prologue: Encountering the Silk Road in Urumqi
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Conventions
- Part I The Theory
- Part II The Strategies
- Part III Subnational Actors
- 6 A Tale of Three Cities
- 7 Typologies of Chinese Companies
- 8 Global Implications: Roads and Roadblocks in China and Beyond
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - A Tale of Three Cities
from Part III - Subnational Actors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2020
- The Belt Road and Beyond
- The Belt Road and Beyond
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Map
- Tables
- Prologue: Encountering the Silk Road in Urumqi
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Conventions
- Part I The Theory
- Part II The Strategies
- Part III Subnational Actors
- 6 A Tale of Three Cities
- 7 Typologies of Chinese Companies
- 8 Global Implications: Roads and Roadblocks in China and Beyond
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Ambitious strategies launched by the political leadership, such as the WDP, CGG, and BRI, mobilized local governments to implement them in their jurisdictions. Local governments, however, drawing on the strategies ambiguity, improvise projects and program that often diverge from the rhetoric at the strategies and yet conform to their local economic needs. It is in this process of subnational reinterpretation that proclaimed nationalist intent in the strategies is replaced by economic imperatives in the localities. This chapter investigates three cities – Chongqing, Ningbo, and Wenzhou – to evaluate local reinterpretation, diverse implementation, and economic effects in local development, realized and ongoing.
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- The Belt Road and BeyondState-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018, pp. 147 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020