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Topic 3:

Globalization and Global

Cities: Hong K ong

Them es and Questions

Themes:

1.From positive non-interventionism to active imagineering 2.The post-handover urban governance

Questions: 1.What is urban governance? 2.What are the changing forms of Hong Kong state in the process of global city making?

The Urban Governance Structure

• It involves both governmental and non-government factors in regulating the urban development.
• It is argued that not until the establishment of the SAR government and after the Asian financial crisis, a new vision of "active imagineering" governance is shown in HK.

R einventing the role of City- State

• A speech by the Chief Executive, Tung Chee Hwa in the Microsoft Asia Enterprise Summit' 99:

It has always been my firm belief that innovation and technology are crucial drivers of economic growth and expansion. This is particularly so in the knowledge-based global economy in which we now live. …

R einventing the role of City- State

The project will be developed by the Government in partnership with a leading information services company in the private sector. Let me do a little bit of marketing here. The Cyberport is a US$1.6 billion development on 26 hectares of land on the southern part of Hong Kong Island ."

R einventing the role of City- State

• The first time in Hong Kong history that the Government has taken part in a mega technology project.
• SAR government shows a leading role of the city-state to renovate the Hong Kong economy and reshape Hong Kong as a global city.

R einventing the role of City- State

3. The state is directly engaged in transnational economic activities to become a "collective capitalist".
4. The state remains one of the most effective regulators in the global economy.

Hong Kong love Disney World

R einventing the role of City- State

5. The role of the state in internationalizing politics such as forming regional and international institution for the co- ordination and regulation of the global capital.
6. The states still have substantial power over their domestic economies in a globalizing world. Hong Kong is Asia’s world city!

Crisis-Survival- Com petition Discourse

• The Asian Financial Crisis badly hit the SAR economy and the belatedness of the economic recovery produces the best source for the rhetoric.
• A global competition race is imagined at a level that will threaten the survival of Hong Kong as a regional finance and business centre.

Crisis-Survival- Com petition Discourse

In the 1999-2000 Budget Speech, the Financial Secretary, Mr. Donald Tsang viewed Hong Kong as lacking time to compete in the race:

There is no question that, for Hong Kong to meet the challenges of the 21st Century, it must adapt to the new forces of the Information Age.…

Crisis-Survival- Com petition Discourse

• The words, strategies, planning, funding, hi-tech, and high value-added play significant rhetorical roles in the SAR governing practices. eg "Digital 21 Hong Kong SAR Information Technology Strategy", "Onward with New Strengths" (1999-2000).
• All the rhetoric is targeted for making a consensus among involved actors.

N ew Age of Urban Governance

• A new urban governance, consisting of a multi-scaled urban governance structure, was formulated.
• Commission on Innovation and Technology (CIT) is a high-level committee to make recommendation for development HK into a high-tech city.

N ew Age of Urban Governance

1. a leading city in the world for the development and use of information technology;
2. a world-class design and fashion center;
3. a regional center for multimedia-based information and entertainment services;

N ew Age of Urban Governance

4. a world center for the development of health food and pharmaceuticals based on Chinese medicine;
5. a leading supplier in the world of high value-added components and products where Hong Kong already excels today;