A Study Of The Administrative Regionalization And The Development Of The Regional Economy Of Henan Province

This dissertation views administration regionalization as an institutive arrangement which exerts great influence on the regional economy. With the interaction between administrative regionalization and regional economy, namely regional economy brings about relative adjustment of administrative regionalization, and the system and format change conversely affect regional economy as the theoretical line, from the perspectives of municipal governing county system, the establishment of county cities and the establishment of municipal regions, this paper studies the relationship between the reform of administrative regionalization above the level of the counties and regional economy in Henan Province in its evolution from planned economy system to market economy, the intensified industratilization and municipization. This study consists of five parts between an introduction and a conclusion. It first analyzes the contemporary situation of the administration regionalization and the development of the regional economy of Henan Province so as to obtain a basic knowledge of the administrative regionalization and the development of the regional economy and the relationship between them. Based on such a knowledge, applying the quantitative and qualitative method, this dissertation respectively studies the adjustment and reform format of municipal governing county system, the establishment of county cities and the establishment of municipal regions, the economic effects of the reform of the administrative regionalization and the development of the regional economy, and the salient problems existing in the reform and adjustment of the administrative regionalization, and offers suggestion on the improvement of the relationship between the administrative regionalization and the development of the regional economy and raises the following conclusion and theoretical understanding. The municipal governing countysystem is the unique product of the special historical background. This system has undergone two stages of serving the development of the big and middle cities and the leading of the development of the countryside and applies four modes of the previous regional city governing the adjacent counties and cities, the promotion of county cities to regional cities, the promotion of counties directly to regional cities and the merging of regional cities and cities. At the beginning of the transition from the planned economy to the market economy the municipal governing county system has played an important and profound role in the development of the central cities of Henan Province. Exercising the municipal governing county system, through the administrative methods, the nearby counties are taken into the domain of the central cities, thus a special stable city-regional system based on the administrative regionalization and administrative government is formed and a the city is able to develop on a large scale, effectively advancing the functional development of the role of the regional city as the central city. Meanwhile, the municipal governing county system also has active influence on the development of the counties in a certain degree. Within the administrative region of the regional city, the administrative barrier between the city and the conty is broken, the trade situation between city and the countryside is improved, the market flows between the city and the countryside, the space of the resources allotment is enlarged, all of which are advantageous for the county economy over the city economy.There exist two modes of the establishment of county as the city: the dividing as establishment and the whole county as establishment. Since 1978, the major way is the latter mode. Through the quantitative analysis of the effect of the establishment of the county cities on development of the city's economy we find that the establishment of the county cities has had great influence on the development of the economy. The establishment of the county cities has realized in the regions the transition from country economy and farm economy to city economy and non-country economy and has guided the significant adjustment of the economic function of the city, the administrative system and the development strategy, these influences show different characters at different stages and regional distinctions and promoted the progress of the municipalization. At the same time, such influences have long term effects. First, the rapid establishment of the county cities has had active influence on the structure of the cities and towns of Henan province and has led to the partial focalization of the distribution of city space. Secondly, the establishment of county cities has broken the previous distribution of cities and counties, the division of city and countryside and has taken on the mode of the merging of the city and the county and has provided advantageous foundation of administrative regionalization of the development of the city and the country.The establishment and adjustment of the regions of the city of Henan Province has taken four modes: the revoking the suburbs, the establishment of the region governing town system, replacing the county (city) as region, the appointment of some administrative regions from one several counties (cities), adding city regions, the adjustment of the city regions and some regions of the adjacent counties (cities). Such practices show that the establishment and adjustment of the regions of the city is not only the institutive choice of the bringing up and enlargement of the central cities but also an effective way to solve the problem of the development of the cities. First, the establishment and adjustment of the regions of the city has had obvious enlarging space and the advantageous function of the city, it exerts active influences on the mutual establishment and enjoyment of the public service system and the foundation system, on the unifying planning, construction and administration. Secondly, through the unification of the administration and organization of the city and the adjacent countryside, the unification of the space and economy, the establishment and adjustment of the regions of the city preferably solves the division of the city and the country and the dichotomy of the structure of the city and the country and promotes the rapid development of each municipal regions.However, because of historical reasons, the defects in the plan of the system and the progressive establishment of the market economy, from the perspective of the development of the regional economy, there still exist some urgent problems in the establishment and reform of the system of the municipal governing county system, the establishment of county cities and the establishment of municipal regions. At present, the municipal governing county system has become an institutive factor hindering the development of the regional economy. The number of the county cities is small and the space distribution of which is not very reasonable. The establishment and adjustment of city regions has included large country regions into the domain of the city and has caused problem in the administration of the city and the country, causing the fake municipalization and the extensive enlargement of the city space. For those remote farm areas included in the city, the effect of the merging of the city and the county is not good enough.Starting from the problems in the administrative regionalization of Henan Province, from the inner demand of the development of the regional economy and the adjustment of the administrative regionalization, this dissertation has raised the recent assumption of the establishment and reform of the administrative regionalization of Henan Province: on the condition of continuing the relatively stable administrative regionalization, progressively begin the provincial governing county system with different categories; actively and stably establish county cities; continuingly increase and adjust city regions, reasonably enlarge the scale of the central cities, increase the construction of the city block of the Zhongyuan area and enhance the regional central cities. As for the relationship between the administrative regionalization and regional economy, this dissertation holds that there show two turning points in the establishment and adjustment of the administrative regionalization of Henan Province since the reform and opening policy: the turning of regional economy and the turning of city administrative regions. In other words,the development of the regional economy, the enhancement of the municipalization, the development of the central cities and its effect in the organizational function in the development of the regional economy have become important drives in the establishment and adjustment of the administrative regionalization. Under the contemporary economic and political system, the relationship between administrative regionalization and the development of the regional economy is cycle active and dynamic. To achieve the balance between the administrative regionalization and the development of the regional economy, the government function must be transformed, the reform of the economic and political system must be deepened, the function of the market must be fully realized, the restraining of the administrative regionalization on the development of the regional economy must also be canceled.