Study On The Regional Economic Integration Of Yangtze River Delta

With the acceleration of the economic globalization, the international economic development and competition was actually the regional competition of the countries. Yangtze River delta is the primary economy core region, which has the fastest developing speed and share the largest economic volume. The economic integration of Yangtze River delta meets the increasing demand of economic globalization, which is also the request of the provinces and cities of the region. There are abundant foundations of the economic development, infrastructure and industry development in Yangtze River delta, there are also perfect regional cooperation mechanisms, policies and ideas. This paper reviews the present situation of the regional economic integration, there had became the system of the local governments cooperation, the communication and the amalgamation between the cities, enterprises and other social organizations became more and more close, the construction of the large intercity infrastructure continually obtained the new progress, the World Exposition would greatly promote the regional economy development. There are, however, many problems which prohibited the regional economic integration of Yangtze river delta, such as the low level of duplicated items of construction caused the convergent industrial structure, the industrial upgrading was restricted by the unreasonable industrial structure, there is no unified planning of the regional infrastructure, the regional sustainable development was threatened and the regional disparities were magnifying and so on. Through the analysis of the reasons of these problems, we proposed the specific countermeasures, establish the regional economy cooperation model which is promoted by the government, orientated by the market, dominated by the enterprises, changing the economic function of the government, outstanding the region as a unified regional economic system and its economic function, establishing the comprehensive authoritative institutions which was responsible for the regional coordination and management, establishing the sharing and transfer mechanism of the public products, social and economic resources, the coordination and compensation mechanism of the regional interests, and the transformation of the regional scientific and technological achievements etc., perfecting the regional legislation, establishing unified market system, optimizing the industrial structure and promoting the integration of the industrial cluster through the recombination of the large enterprises, and actively cultivating the non-governmental organizations.