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Topic 4a

Trans-border Flow :

Betw een Hong K ong and M ainland China

Theme:

• The formation of transborder governance (跨境管治) between Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta, South China

Questions:

1. What is transborder urban governance?
2. What is transborder flow and when did it begin?

Globalization and Transborder Studies

 Deepen the globalization studies: by locating the glocalizing process (全球在 地化) in a transborder context- gone beyond the dichotomy of “space of flows” and “politics of place”.

 Contributing to the urban governance studies: by re-drawing the borders and boundaries of governance.

Transborder Urban Governance

 “an increasingly complexity of

modalities (形態) of governing

including governmental actors,

para- government agencies (輔助政

府的機關), business networks and

societal actors who may work

together or against each other in a

cross-border context”.

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Globalization and Transborder Studies

 New concepts on transnational or transborder phenomenon- like the discourse of “Greater China” in East Asian context.

 Critic points that the concept of “Greater China” is often simply used as a short- hand way of aggregating the Hong Kong, PRC and Taiwanese economies.

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Globalization and Transborder Studies

 Whether the notion "Greater China" is another catch-all buzz word, it depends on how we work to tease out its multi-layered and heterogeneous processes.

M ulti-scalar P olitics:

 Scaling processes can be further distinguished into:

 cross-border relations (internationalization);  open-border relations (liberalization);  trans-border relations (re-making of social relations in multiple forms).

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M ulti-scalar P olitics:

 Further break down the concept of space into a procession of spatial scales, contributing to multiple forms of configuration at different levels and dimensions.

M ulti-scalar P olitics:

• "regionalisation" refers to bottom-up processes- the driving forces come from markets, from private trade and investment flows, and from the policies and decisions of companies.

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M ulti-scalar P olitics:

• highlighting the “bottom-up” nature of transborder interaction in in China.
• The term "economic integration" often refers to the formal cooperation between states, and thus ignoring the societal factors in pushing forward the transborder governance. K ey concept to rem em ber!

Hong K ong and Transborder Flow s

• A new form of transborder governance will be articulated when both changing governments work together to regulate a “triangular growth” crossing the border.

Guangdong – Hong Kong cooperation together

Hong K ong and Transborder Flow s

• Despite to the state factors, transborder interactions between Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta from the bottom have been underway for more than two decades.

Hong K ong and Transborder Flow s

Hong Kong residents working in Mainland China

Special Topics Report No. 21 and 30, Social data collected via the General Household Survey, Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong, 1999,

Year No. of persons working in Mainland China 1988 52, 1989 45, 1992 64, 1995 122, 1998 157, 2001 190,

Hong K ong and Transborder Flow s

• 35.5% were aged 30-39; while 32.9% were aged 40-49. Their median age was 39.
• Analysed by sex, 135,500 (86.2%) were males.
• The working population in Mainland China generally had relatively higher educational attainment.