Ford Foundation Project


Project Title:

Remaking Development Models in China: Globalization, the State, and Regional Development

 

I.                  Objectives

 

To better understand the recent restructuring of the development models in China in general,

and the Sunan and Wenzhou models in particular;

To examine the roles of local states in regional development, and to address problems arising

from the restructuring and policy options to improve the lives of the people;

To explore theoretical and policy implications of local/regional development models in the

context of globalization;

To build a network of researchers and decision makers to strengthen regional capacities to

cope with globalization.

 

 

II.               Selected Publications:

 

1. Yuan, F. Y.H.D. Wei, W. Chen, and Z.F. Jin. 2010. Industrial Agglomeration and New Firm Formation

in Suzhou. Dili Xuebao(Acta Geographic Sinica) 65(2): 153-163.

 2. Li, Y.R. and Y.H.D. Wei. 2010. The Spatial-Temporal Hierarchy of Regional Inequality of China.

Applied Geography  30:303-316.

3. Wei, Y.H.D. 2010.Remaking the Sunan Model, Globalizing Regional Development. Environment and

Planning C  28:72-96.

4. Wei, Y.H.D. and C.L. Gu. 2010.A Study of Industrial Development and Spatial Structure in Changzhou

City, China: The Restructuring of the Sunan Model. Urban Geography 31(3):321-347.

 5. Yang, C. 2009. Strategic Coupling of Regional Development in Global Production Networks. Regional

Studies 43(3): 385-407.

 6. Wei, Y.H.D. 2009. China’s Shoe Manufacturing and the Wenzhou Model: Perspectives on the World’s

Leading Producer and Exporter of Footwear. Eurasian Geography and Economics 50(6): 720-739.

7. Wei, Y.H.D and X.Y. Ye. 2009. Beyond Convergence: Space, Scale, and Regional Inequality in China. Tijdschrift

 voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal of Economic and Social Geography) 100(1): 59-80.

 8. Wei, Y.H.D., Y.Q. Lu, and W. Chen. 2009. Globalizing Regional Development in Sunan, China: Does

Suzhou Industrial Park Fit a Neo-Marshallian District Model? Regional Studies 43(3): 409-427.

 

I.                  Academic Conference

 

International Conference on Globalization, Innovation, and Urban-Regional Development (19-20 June, 2009, Shanghai)