Central and Local relations in Coastal Area China

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23710289
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization
• Principal Investigator: REN ZHE 独立行政法人日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所, その他部局等, 研究員 (90434381)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 中国 / 中央地方関係 / 基層政府 / 財政 / 土地 / 都市化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research tried to analyze the relations of central level, provincial level and local level through case studies of land expropriation and demolition. The findings of this research can be summarized into the following three points. (1) Compare to provincial governments, grass root governments tend to prefer GDP and economic development over social issues. (2) Rising fiscal revenue rate is the most important factor to evaluate a bureaucrat under the competitive mechanism of bureaucracy that is established below the provincial level. (3) Bureaucratic term became shorter with the establishment of the competitive mechanism . Thus, direct investment and rapid urbanization eventually became useful and widely copied method to boost economy in short period.

Free Research Field

地域研究