Shanghai and Chongqing: the "province-level cities" as territorial strategies of the state in the Chinese economy MAP | REVISTA MUNDO ASIA PACÍFICO 6 AbstractThe territorial configuration of power relations in China is crucial to understand the processes that underpin economic and social changes. The complex and unstable political geography of China includes an administrative unit called 'province-level city', which the bulk of the scholars have wrongly translated as 'municipalities'. These territories are directly managed by the central government as spaces for testing economic strategies or for developing national infrastructural projects. This paper will discuss the financial and corporate institutional framework for infrastructure development of Shanghai and the establishment of Chongqing as administrative territory for developing the 'Three Gorges Dam', as spatial territorial strategies the Chinese central government has designed to govern economic processes.
ResumenLa configuración de relaciones de poder en los territorios administrativos de China es fundamental para entender los cambios en los procesos económicos y sociales. Dentro de la compleja e inestable geografía política de China, las "ciudades a nivel provincia" (直辖市zhixiashi) se caracterizan por ser los únicos territorios administrados directamente por el gobierno central, siendo recipientes de estrategias económicas y proyectos de infraestructura fundamentales para la economía del país. Este artículo discutirá la reforma de las empresas paraestatales de desarrollo de infraestructura en Shanghái y su aplicación en la ciudad de Chongqing, así como la construcción de la presa de las Tres Gargantas, para mostrar la manera en la cual el gobierno central chino establece y administra las "ciudades a nivel provincia" como estrategias territoriales para controlar procesos económicos.
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