A new model of village urbanization? Coordinative governance of state-village relations in Guangzhou City, China

Wong, Siu Wai ^[2] ; Dai, Yao ^[2] ; Tang, Bo-sin ^[3] ; Liu, Jinlong ^[1]
1. [1] Renmin University of China
  
  Renmin University of China
  
  China
2. [2] Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
3. [3] Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Localización: Land use policy: The International Journal Covering All Aspects of Land Use, ISSN 0264-8377, ISSN-e 1873-5754, Nº. 109, 2021
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- China’s ongoing urbanization has profoundly reshaped local governance with an increasing emphasis on reducing urban-rural inequalities through public investment in the rural areas in order to enhance the wellbeing of villagers. Drawing from more than one decade of intensive field research in a peri-urban area of Guangzhou, our study elucidates how the process of village urbanization has developed into a tri-partite partnership between the local state, the village organizations and the villagers in village asset management and welfare provision. This collaborative model presents an alternative approach to the top-down, state-led urbanization model which has notoriously led to landless villagers and economic dispossession in village urbanization. It also differs from the bottom-up, village corporatist model which tends to oppose integrated urban-rural development. This study attempts to conceptualize the delicate interdependency of the local state, the village collectives and villagers. Our findings offer new insights into the restructuring of state-village relations and explain its implications for community capacity building in periurban China.