“…Local governments construct the latter (and give them preferential tax status) because they want manufacturing enterprises to relocate from the inner city to the suburbs, instead of moving out of the city. Current studies prove that this strategy works to the extent that these development zones act as an important factor in the industrial location in the intra-city areas (Huang & Wei, 2014;Wei, Leung, Li, & Pan, 2008;Wu, 1999;Wu & Radbone, 2005), attracting a large number of enterprises and dramatically changing the industrial spatial pattern of Chinese cities (Shi & Huang, 2012;Yeup & Zhang, 2008). Addressing the Beijing context more specifically, Feng, Zhou, and Wu (2008) consider the development zones to be a significant factor in the industrial urbanization of the capital.…”