Yesterday's solution: Do national economic and technological development zones promote industrial development in typical developing regions of China?

IF 6.5 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Zhicong Ye , Li Ma , Fengjun Jin
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Abstract

With the proliferation of special economic zones (SEZs) among emerging economies, their mixed performance has sparked discussions on contextual heterogeneity and underlying driving mechanisms. Characterized by an outward-oriented economy and industry-city interaction, the cross-stage establishment practice of China's national economic and technological development zones (ETDZs) is conducive to expanding existing research focused on cross-country analyses of SEZs. This study constructs difference-in-differences models to analyze the influence of national ETDZs on regional industrial development in the Yellow River basin, a typical developing region in China, from 2003 to 2019, evaluating their performance under a regional balanced development strategy and a within a lagging economic backdrop. The results indicate that (1) national ETDZs do not contribute to industrial growth and even exert a negative effect; (2) while they fail to perform better over time, their spatial spillover effect slightly benefits neighboring cities; (3) an optimal economic environment and proactive policy promotion can respectively mitigate and exacerbate their negative effects; (4) the inability to attract external enterprises and achieve industrial restructuring is the primary cause of the negative effect, highlighting a mismatch and discord between the economic and policy attributes of national ETDZs and evolving contexts. Based on these findings, recommendations are proposed to cultivate SEZs as suitable policy platforms and effective economic spaces.

昨天的解决方案:国家级经济技术开发区能否促进中国典型发展中地区的工业发展?
随着经济特区在新兴经济体中的大量涌现,其喜忧参半的表现引发了关于环境异质性和内在驱动机制的讨论。以外向型经济和产城互动为特征的中国国家级经济技术开发区(ETDZs)的跨阶段设立实践,有利于拓展现有的经济特区跨国分析研究。本研究构建了差分模型,分析了2003-2019年国家级经济技术开发区对中国典型发展中地区黄河流域区域产业发展的影响,评价了国家级经济技术开发区在区域均衡发展战略和滞后经济背景下的绩效。结果表明:(1)国家级经济技术开发区并没有促进工业增长,甚至产生了负效应;(2)虽然国家级经济技术开发区的绩效并没有随着时间的推移而提高,但其空间溢出效应会使周边城市略微受益;(3)优化的经济环境和积极的政策推动可以分别缓解和加剧其负效应;(4)无法吸引外部企业和实现产业结构调整是产生负效应的主要原因,凸显了国家级经济技术开发区的经济和政策属性与不断变化的环境之间的不匹配和不协调。在此基础上,提出了将经济特区培育成合适的政策平台和有效的经济空间的建议。
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CiteScore
10.50
自引率
10.30%
发文量
151
审稿时长
38 days
期刊介绍: Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world. However, increasingly the interrelationships and linkages between cities and towns in the developing and developed worlds are becoming apparent and solutions to the problems that result are urgently required. The economic, social, technological and political systems of the world are intertwined and changes in one region almost always affect other regions.
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