A Research On Cities' Synchronization In The Yangtze River Delta In The View Of New Institutional Economics

In recent years, as the deeply development of economic globalization and regional integration, all major metropolitan areas and city groups have launched the planning boom of a "1-3 hour traffic circle ", which speeds up the flow of exchanges of talents, material, information, capital and other elements within the region, the development trend and mode of cooperation of adjacent cities has increasingly become the focus of regional economic development. Following the development situation and the concept of "cities'synchronization" proposed firstly in 2005 between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the development strategy and idea of cities' synchronization has put forward in many adjacent regions in China, all regional plates are showing a trend of "cities'synchronization"as a guide or leader of the regional economic development.With the basic formation of the convenient, fast, safe and efficient inter-city rail transport network in prefecture-level cities and the main towns in Yangtze River Delta, major cities and neighboring cities within the region has basically realized the "1-2 hour traffic circle", which greatly reduces the temporal distance between major cities within the metropolitan area. The studies of "the effect of cities'synchronization" in the Yangtze River Delta for the purpose of accelerating the accessibility flow and zero transaction costs of funding, information, materials, human resources, and other elements between adjacent areas, have also increasingly become a hot research areas. This thesis introduces the analysis framework of institutional change theory and game theory, surrounding the core concept——the rent of cities'synchronization and common interests, along the cute of rent seeking, rent creating and rent allocating, trying to explain the system content of cities'synchronization and elements of characteristics from a new perspective, deeming that cities'synchronization is not only the process of institutional change of the interests of game and benefit-sharing based on the demand of lower transaction costs between neighboring cities, but only the result of co-ordination game -cooperative game - distribution game based on rent system and potential benefits of adjacent regions. The research is focused on the "Golden Triangle" of the most dynamic region in China's Yangtze River Delta-Shanghai, Suzhou, Jiaxing (hereinafter referred to as the "HuSuJia"), discussing the mechanism of its power based on the analysis of its reality and constraints, proposing the path selection and strategy, which provides a good model for the study of cities' synchronization.The structure of this thesis is divided into seven chapters, which consists of two major parts:theoretical analysis and case study. The first three chapters are the theoretical analysis, in which the framework of institutional analysis of cities' synchronization has been constructed, through reviewing and analyzing the relational literatures and theory at home and abroad. The following four chapters are about case study, which explored the mechanism and approaches of cities'synchronization in Shanghai, Suzhou, Jiaxing. As follows:The first chapter:Introduction. In this part, the author elaborates the research background, purpose and significance of the topics, as well as the ideas and the main innovation;Chapter Two:Related Review and Theoretical Basis at Home and Abroad. In the chapter, on the basis of the analysis of the similarities and differences among metropolitan, urban agglomeration and cities'synchronization, as well as the relationship between cities'synchronization and integration, the author defines the new content of cities'synchronization;Through the review reorganization of relevant researches at home and abroad, the author discusses the cognitive theory of cities' synchronization under the perspective of geography, new institutional economics, sociology. ChapterⅢ:The Analysis of Cities'Synchronization of New Institutional Economics. In this chapter, in the view of the new institutional economics, the institutional content and the system characteristics of cities'synchronization are analyzed. On this basis, the game theory is leaded into analysis framework of institutional change, the game analysis of cities'synchronization under the new institutional economics perspective is focused. Surrounding the core concept——the rent of cities'synchronization and common interests, along the cute of rent seeking, rent creating and rent allocating, the author considers that the institutional change of cities'synchronization is the process of co-ordination game -cooperative game -distribution game based on rent system and potential benefits of regions.Chapter IV:The Analysis of the Reality and Constraints of Cities'Synchronization in HuSuJia. The realistic basis of cities'synchronization in HuSuJia is analyzed in detail in this thesis, and described its main problems and constraints.Chapter V:The Dynamic Mechanism of Cities'Synchronization in HuSuJia. In the chapter, the author deeply dissects the dynamic mechanism of cities' synchronization in HuSuJia, and considers that its power system is mainly composed of four dimensions, that is the source driving force, the core driving force, the guiding driving force and the external driving force.Chapter VI:The Choice and Strategy of Cities'Synchronization in HuSuJia. Based on the theoretical framework of institutional economics, this thesis is proposed the path selection and strategy to achieve cities'synchronization in HuSuJia from the respect of institutional change, transaction costs, regional planning, public services, and etc.Chapter VII:Conclusion and Outlook. By summarizing the full text, the main conclusions of the paper are extracted, what's more, inadequate analysis and prospects are raised.