城市企业主义视角下的政府转型——中部小城济源的发展路径

借助对城市企业主义的简明定义,即以"企业化表述"和"企业化方式"来实施"企业化战略",通过考察中部小城河南省济源市20年来的发展历程,发现其城市企业主义经历了由萌芽到深化的"全球城市化"进程。进一步分析表明:在中国,城市企业主义是多重尺度共同作用的产物;市场化和全球化构成相互交织的推动力量;城市体系中的位置直接影响城市企业主义的战略与行动内容。

A SMALL ENTREPRENEURIAL CITY IN ACTION: JIYUAN'S EVOLVING STRATEGIES FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND COMPETITIVENESS

Drawing on empirical materials detailing the development path of Jiyuan, a small city in Henan province, this paper revisits the concepts of urban entrepreneurialism and glurbanisation to provide new insights to understand China's diverse trajectories of urbanization and their connection with two simultaneous processes of globalization and localization. This study is organized around the following questions:To what extent can we capture the evolving entrepreneurial endeavor of Jiyuan, a small city in middle China, under the framework of "Urban Entrepreneurialism"? How do these endeavors evolve, along with the upgrade of both the city's administrative level and its position in the urban hierarchy? In which ways are its strategies and trajectory distinct from many other large cities along the east coast of China, such as Shanghai and Guangzhou? In this paper we apply an explicit and simplified definition of urban entrepreneurialism-namely, the development of three indispensable elements, including entrepreneurial fashion, entrepreneurial discourse and entrepreneurial strategies-to interpret Jiyuan's evolving urban development strategies and trajectory of the past more than 20 years. From the late 1980s to most recent, urban entrepreneurialism in Jiyuan has experienced three phases' development, from germination, to exploration to amplification, in the meantime moving-up its administrative level. As a multi-scalar process, urban entrepreneurialism in China is shaped by the interaction between the city, the region, the state and the globe under the confluence of globalisation and marketization.