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Pioneering economic reform through promoting foreign investment in China's Special Economic Zones.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pioneering economic reform through promoting foreign investment in China's Special Economic Zones./
Author:	Wu, Weiping.
Description:	206 p.
Notes:	Director: Hooshang Amirahmadi.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-06A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9633761

Pioneering economic reform through promoting foreign investment in China's Special Economic Zones.
Wu, Weiping.

Pioneering economic reform through promoting foreign investment in China's Special Economic Zones. - 206 p.

Director: Hooshang Amirahmadi.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 1996.

Export Processing Zones have been used throughout the developing world as an export-oriented growth strategy since the 1960s. China designated four Special Economic Zones (SEZs)-Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, and Xiamen, in the wake of the economic reform initiated in 1979. They are geographically insulated but economically open zones, where special and flexible economic policies have been carried out primarily to promote foreign investment, technology transfer, and exports; and secondarily to facilitate integration with particular external economies and experimenting with a market system. Since their creation, the promotion of foreign investment has always been at the center of attention. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the performance of SEZs in the 1980s, particularly in attracting foreign investment, through an in-depth case study of the largest zone--Shenzhen. Employing a method of intensive interviews as well as secondary data analysis, I found that SEZs were successful in attracting a large quantity of foreign investment. The significant growth of foreign investment was primarily a positive function of proximity to major countries of origin, in physical, economic, cultural and political terms; and was also positively related to a favorable local policy environment. Labor cost differentials between the zones and other potential sites in China, and domestic market potential, in contrast to traditional "neoclassical" theory, were only residual factors. The growth of foreign investment in SEZs, however, did not lead to meaningful technology transfer, primarily because of the low-tech nature of foreign investment. The goal of technology transfer also was undermined by the lack of a proper regulatory framework and SEZs' underdeveloped industrial capabilities. As in similar zones elsewhere, the growth of foreign investment in SEZs was not accompanied by substantial net exports (ultimately foreign exchange earnings) and creation of domestic linkages, mainly due to the high import propensity of foreign enterprises as well as limited domestic supply capabilities. By showing the importance of spatial placement and unique planning activities, this research contributes to the current debate on China's reform policy, and the role of foreign investment and zone policy in promoting growth in China and developing countries in general.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Economics, General.

Pioneering economic reform through promoting foreign investment in China's Special Economic Zones.
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