A Study Of Coordinated Development Mechanisms Of Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone

Economic globalization propels the economic resources and production factors circulate in the international scope with greater intensity. The global economic development entered a new era of coexistence, cooperation and development. Deepening the labor division causes the formation of economic divisions among different regions in the whole world and further causes the divisions of different places even within the same region. This has every region join the global industrial chain, increases the economic dependence of different regions and makes every region realizes that it is impossible to develop its economy in a closed environment and they have to collaborate and cooperate to avoid lagging behind in the global competition, In all, the coordinated development of economic zones is becoming more and more important and necessary.Against a background of economic globalization, market mechanisms, government mechanisms and organization mechanisms play an increasingly important role in the coordinated development of economic zones. Enterprises, in the market-oriented economy, must become independent market entities, and this demands an unified market system which can make economic factors circulate freely and reasonably to reduce the costs of market exchanges and this also demands market mechanisms which can combine regional economic division and cooperation to achieve the best overall efficiency of the coordinated development of economic regions; when various kinds of production factors are attracted to the advantageous places of a specific economic region and the talent, capital and technology are all transferred to the developed places, it is very necessary for the governments within the economic zone to coordinate and cooperate with each other in order to reduce the production costs and to narrow down the economic gap within the economic region with rational institutional arrangement that can achieve economies of scale and of scope; and because the progress of economic globalization has promoted the development of "public community", enterprises, non-governmental and non-profit social organizations and groups are playing an increasingly important role in the coordination and management of economic society. Therefore, in the context of economic globalization, markets, governments and organizations become the three dominating forces which can promote the coordinated development of regional economy.Since the reform and opening up, the socialist market-oriented economic system which replaced gradually the previous highly-centralized plan-oriented economic system became the dominating form of resources allocation in Chinese economic development. With the establishment and gradual improvement of market-oriented economic system, the economic decision-making rights have been shifted from the central government to local ones, and spatial costs become an important factor which is considered by the economic entities as important elements in economic decision-making activities, and therefore regions of geographical proximity have a closer economic relationship and have a stronger and stronger demand of constructing a unified market system. Since the 1990s, lots of inter-provincial and inter-regional economic regions gradually came into being in our country, such as the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and Bohai Economic zone, etc. The increasing tendency of economic zones development is the result of changes of government, enterprises, markets and their relationship. However, there are still many problems impeding the development of economic zones in our country, such as the development of economic zones facing the administrative barriers, the existence of local protectionism and the similar industrial structure. All this makes it difficult to realize the efficient resources allocation among different regions in the market-oriented economic system, difficult to form a unified market within the economic zone and finally it leads to enlarged economic growth costs of this economic zone, slows down its development and seriously hinders the further development of the economic zone. At the new stage of economic globalization and regional economic integration, it is in great need to unify the strengths of markets, government and organizations to construct and improve the coordination mechanisms of economic zones development, to clear up the regional and institutional barriers of economic zones development, to improve the whole service system, and to realize an unimpeded flow of people, production and capital and raise the overall level of economic development.Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone is the oldest economic zone which has the best industrial foundation, the most developed science and education, the strongest economic strength and the greatest potentialities. To promote the development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone is an important initiative of our country to implement deeply the Western Development Strategy, which is of great significance to promote the development of Chengdu-Chongqing and the whole Western area and to push the Urban-rural coordinated development of the whole country. But observed from the perspective of all the economic zones of our country developing quickly, Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone is not well developed and lags behind the social expectation far away. This makes us to focus our attention on the present institutions of the coordinated economic development of Chengdu-Chongqing which are heavily dependant on the markets only and can not realize the coordinate development of the economic zone, In order to bring it into reality, the three aspects of government mechanisms, market mechanisms and organization mechanisms have to work jointly. How to adjust the functions of government, to construct the mechanism and institutions fit for the regional coordinated development and to resolve the conflicts between administrational division and the coordinated economic development and how to change the urban-rural binary structure by renovating mechanisms and institutions and to promote the construction of the overall-planned urban-rural comprehensive reform pilot area are important issues.According to the above analysis, this paper is titled as "A Study of Coordinated Development Mechanisms of Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone" and aims to, by employing theories from Regional Economics, Urban Economics and Industrial Economics, systematically study theories about regional economic coordinated development and other theories related to economic zones, to comprehensively analyze the market mechanisms, government's regulation and control mechanisms and institutional mechanisms which can promote the coordinated development of economy, to provide theoretical reference to mechanisms studies of economic zones' coordinated development and finally to further advance the theoretical study in this area. Practically speaking, this paper, by analyzing the present situation of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone, aims to explore the present situation and mechanisms of its economic coordinated development, to analyze the major problems and their reasons, to put forward measures and suggestions for the development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone and finally to find operational and practical way to the coordinated development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone.This study is composed of the theoretical construction part and the application analysis part, which can be branched into seven chapters. Chapter one is the introduction part; Chapter two, three and four belong to the theoretical construction part; and Chapter five, six and seven belong to the application analysis part. Chapter one is Introduction. This part includes the research background of this paper, its practical values and practical significance and a brief review about the related previous foreign and domestic studies. After that, the research methods and structures are discussed and the new points and weak ones also are generalized.Chapter.two is about the exploration about the fundamental theories of the coordinated development of economic zones. This part tries to construct the theoretical basis of this paper by systematically and detailed studying such fundamental theories of the coordinated development of economic zones as the dual economic structure theory, the regional economic balanced growth theory, system theory and the ternary structure theory.Chapter three is the connotative analysis of the coordinated development of economic zones. After analyzing the concepts of region, economic zone, coordination, development, this part with the theoretical analysis of Chapter two carefully discusses the prerequisites, the content requirements and specific manifestations of the coordinated development of economic zones and defines the concept of the coordinated development of economic zones more comprehensively.Chapter four is about the mechanisms analysis of the coordinated development of economic zones. This part analyses the functions of market mechanisms, government mechanisms and organization mechanisms in the coordinated development of economic zones and other related problems and put forward the "trinity" operating framework of the coordinated development of economic zones.Chapter five is about the present situation and problems of the coordinated development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone. This chapter, firstly, defines the spatial scope of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone and discusses carefully the development process, resource endowment and economic status of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone; secondly, it analyses the changes of the economic relation strength within Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone, constructs the corresponding evaluation index system and evaluates the present situation of the coordinated development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone by employing the Coordination Model; finally, it makes a brief summary about the major problems.Chapter six is about the mechanism analysis of the coordinated development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone. This chapter, corresponding to the study of the theoretical part, detailed analyses the functions, defects and problems of market mechanisms, government mechanisms and organization mechanisms in the coordinated development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone.Chapter seven is about the mechanisms exploration of constructing and improving the coordinated development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone. This part proposes the mechanisms framework of the coordinated development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone which is the trinity of market, government and organization and put forward the corresponding measures and suggestions.Basing on the previous studies, this paper conducts a systematical and in-depth study of the mechanism of the coordinated development of economic zones, which is carried out at both the theoretical construction level and the application analysis level. The major new points of this study are as follows.(1) It can provide a comparatively complete analysis framework for the mechanisms study of the coordinated development of economic zones. Different from the traditional mechanisms study of the coordinated development of economic zones which are conducted from a market-only perspective or a government-only one, this paper combines market, government and organization together to construct the mechanism framework of the coordinated development of economic zones and explores in depth the functions of market mechanisms, government mechanisms and organization mechanisms in the coordinated development of economic zones; then, after sorting out and generalizing the basic theories of the coordinated development of economic zones, it clearly defines its key concept---he coordinated development of economic zones, which, in some degree, can improve and develop the previous studies of the coordinated development of economic zones.(2) It supplies new judgment methods for the coordinated development of economic zones. This paper constructs a feasible and comprehensive evaluation index system about the coordinated development of economic zones, which will be helpful to judge precisely the coordinated development tendency of economic zones; the modern statistical methods are employed in this paper and has a multi-index comprehensive evaluation analysis with the Active Functional Method, which will help to make a more objective and direct judgment for the tendency of the coordinated development of economic zones.(3) It makes systematic judgment and explanation for the coordinated development tendency of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone. This paper comprehensively analyzes the present situation and problems of coordinated development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone and uses the evaluation index system constructed in the theoretical part to make a completely new comprehensive evaluation to the coordinated development tendency of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone, which will be of great referential significance in the reality.(4) It comes out with valuable policy suggestions which can promote the coordinated development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone. This paper discussed in detail the situation of market mechanisms, government mechanisms and organizations mechanism in the coordinated development of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone; basing on that, it proposes specific suggestions, which will of great referential value to improve the overall operating efficiency of the whole Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone and to raise the comprehensive competitive ability of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone.