New trends In urban and regional governance in the Pearl River Delta Region

Abstract The impacts of globalization and the collapse of the global credit market, along with the shift in global economic production, forced economic restructurings, are greatly affecting and stimulating the trajectories of China's economic developments. Under these circumstances, urban and regional governance is changing rapidly with complicated relations between government, the economy and the emerging civil society. The Outline of the Plan for the Reform and Development of the PRD 2008–2020 and other national plans for revitalizing key industries provide impetus for possible regional economic development and transformation in south China.