China urban competitiveness in industrialization: Based on the panel data of 25 cities in China from 1990 to 2009

Ni, Pei; Kresl, Peter Karl; Li, Xiaojiang

doi:10.1177/0042098013514461

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“…China has undergone and is experiencing unique urbanization which raised heated and profound debate in academia and among policy-makers (Hsing, 2010;Li, 2011). In the past 30 years, albeit that the speed of urbanization in China has been strikingly fast, the discrepancy between high-level cities and county-level cities has rarely been attenuated and most of the mega cities has been diagnosed as over-saturated (Ni, 2013, Ni, Kresl, & Li, 2014Wu, Zhang, Jin, & Deng, 2009). The New Urbanization Planning in China has been released in which the development of urban agglomeration and small-medium cities has been highlighted in 2014 (Shan & Huang, 2013).…”

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Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

Zeng

An-lu

2016

Habitat International

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a b s t r a c tUrbanization in China has been closely associated with urban sprawl, rural migration and the role of government has been more direct and powerful in setting it in motion. In 2014, the New Urbanization Planning in China has been released in which the development of urban agglomeration and smallmedium cities has been highlighted. In this context, we decompose urbanization into populationoriented and land-centered archetypes and devise spatial models in multiple strategies embedded with different spatial relations to unfold the underlying driving forces using Wuhan agglomeration as the case. In addition to the identification of major driving forces which are gross domestic product (GDP), income, fixed asset investment and the transportation construction, the major contributions of our study lie in the gauge on administrative influence, to be more specific, the status of urban district, city-level county and county, through incorporating different spatial weight matrix in different scenarios in spatial modeling. It found out that 1) both non-agricultural population and urban land exhibit significant spatial autocorrelation and the superiority in the city center is evident; 2) socio-economic development and transportation construction significantly influence urbanization whereas the personal income and fixed asset investment accounting for a large proportion being the most powerful factors; 3) different administrative status at the county level is an unneglectable factor and urban area has higher probability to expand when urban district is adjacent to county-level city; 4) the magnitude of this administrative status influence generally grows to a certain level and then reaches to a plateau. These findings provide theoretical basis for understanding the administrative dimension in new urbanization and have important policy implications on administrative adjustment and urban agglomeration.

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Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

Zeng

An-lu

2016

Habitat International

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“…Where urban competitiveness is defined as a city's ability to attract capital, businesses, talent and visitors as a holistic concept, the environment and natural hazards are considered a determining factor [12]. Where urban competitiveness is defined as a city's efficiency at producing wealth and providing welfare, measured by GDP, ecological environment is considered as a driving factor [13]. Where urban competitiveness is based on regeneration-and property-linked business strategies, the sub-indicators include the ecological footprint and environmentally responsible property development [14].…”

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“…Two studies employed an explanatory approach, in which environmental performances were treated as explanatory factors of a city's competitiveness that was defined and measured otherwise. Ni et al [13] had a heavily economic-centric conceptualization of urban competitiveness and measured it by a city's GDP performances only. Although their framework did include the ecological environment as a driving factor of urban competitiveness, it was not included as an explanatory variable in the empirical analysis of the competitiveness of 25 Chinese cities.…”

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Sustainability and Competitiveness in Australian Cities

2015

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This study injects sustainability into competitiveness to inform policy making and planning for contemporary urban development. This is built upon the recent advancement in the scholarship on urban competitiveness that demonstrates a clear deviation from an economic-centric approach to incorporate multiple dimensions of a city's progress. This study has an explicit concern for environmental sustainability and its relationship with urban competitiveness and their conceptual and methodological articulations. Empirically, this study measures the sustainability and competitiveness in Australian cities and reveals that Australia's urban progress is clearly associated with an environmental cost. The findings are useful to inform policy making and planning for building sustainable and competitive cities. Apart from the conventional solutions that focus on urban form change and transport infrastructure improvement, this study suggests a need to explore the opportunities deriving from the emerging smart city planning and practice.

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“…Therefore, selecting indicators that can truly reflect urban characters and organizing an indicator system have become an important approach to the comprehensive measurement of urban competitiveness. Scholars have attempted to use different angles in indicator selection [1,[3][4][5][6]. However, there are shortcomings to this approach: the selection of indicators and the decision of relationships among indicators are inevitably subjective [3].…”

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Urban Competitiveness Measurement of Chinese Cities Based on a Structural Equation Model

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In the current era, competition among countries and regions is in fact among cities. Thus, how to measure urban competitiveness precisely is a basic and important question. The two main approaches to this are comprehensive evaluation based on a set of indicators and network analysis based on inter-city relations. However, both have shortcomings. In this study, we introduced structural equation model (SEM) into urban competitiveness measurement to integrate the two approaches. We built a partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) according to the analysis of causal relationship among urban attribute indicators → urban functions → urban competitiveness → urban flow intensities. Following the processes of algorithm selection, model building, fitting and assessment, and modification in PLS-SEM modeling, we measured the urban competitiveness of Chinese cities in 2010 and analyzed its distribution quantitatively and spatially. The results revealed relationships between factors contained in the model and urban competitiveness and proved that the PLS-SEM urban competitiveness measurement approach we proposed is theoretically reliable and statistically valid.

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China urban competitiveness in industrialization: Based on the panel data of 25 cities in China from 1990 to 2009

Cited by 25 publications

References 43 publications

Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

Sustainability and Competitiveness in Australian Cities

Urban Competitiveness Measurement of Chinese Cities Based on a Structural Equation Model

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