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作者

Tao Hong;Nannan Yu;Zhonggen Mao;Shuhai Zhang

来源

CITIES,Vol.117,Issue1,Article 103299

语言

英文

关键字

Government-driven urbanisation;Economic growth;Political turnover;China

作者单位

School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, MB 1027, 13 Fayuan Street, Nangang District, Harbin 150001, PR China;School of Business Administration at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 555 Wenjiangliutai Boulevard, Department of Scientific Research Management, Chengdu 611130, PR China;School of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China;School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, MB 1027, 13 Fayuan Street, Nangang District, Harbin 150001, PR China;School of Business Administration at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 555 Wenjiangliutai Boulevard, Department of Scientific Research Management, Chengdu 611130, PR China;School of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China

摘要

This article interrogates the role of local Chinese governors in government-driven urbanisation. This process often involves local governments converting rural land to urban land rather than local governments incentivising rural-to-urban migration. This study proposes a method to find a proxy variable of government-driven urbanisation and performs an exploratory study of its impact on economic growth. Its empirical analysis is based on provincial data from 1996 to 2015, a period of intense urbanisation in China. The results show that urbanisation has had various effects on growth across different provinces, and that some provinces exhibit a phenomenon called ‘urbanisation without growth’. This may be because local governors push urbanisation too heavy that it can hardly generate positive effects, such as external consumption, technology diffusion, and a larger pool of urban labour. This is similar to the phenomenon of over-urbanisation experienced in some developing countries. As a main driver of over-urbanisation, government-driven urbanisation has typical Chinese characteristics, but this paper's findings still have significant implications for other emerging economies.