The Transformation And Upgrade Of Specialized Towns In The City Of Zhanjiang

Recently, specialized towns are greatly developed in the city of Zhanjiang,Guangdong province. According to the fact of special industry in the scale of towns, thegovernment of Guangdong guides the creation of special industry and improves thetechnology level of special industry. Now, the economics of special towns become themain type of economics in Zhanjiang. There have been18special towns in the level of“province and city” in Zhanjiang. The special industries in these towns include the plasticindustry, pearl culture and processing, down products, appliance, feed, fruits planting andprocessing, etc. However, the development of special towns is faced with new problems,such as, core technologies, intellectual property, information resource and the new powerfor sustainable development, etc. These problems enforces special towns in Zhanjiang tothink about and practice the second entrepreneurship.In the new situation, how to quickly transform and update special towns, developeconomics in the scale of towns and improve the construction of new country are thepractical problems faced by Zhanjiang. These problems are opportunities, and meanwhile,bigger challenges. This paper studies on the development of economics in towns ofZhanjiang, which is hoped to be useful for the structure transformation of the industry andemployment in countryside, and the process of Zhanjiang’s urbanization.Begin with the theory of special town development states and transformation, by theanalyses for the existing problems in the development process of special towns inZhanjiang, using some typical successful cases in other special towns, this paper obtainsmany good ideas for developing Zhanjiang special towns. Then, combining different typesof special towns in Zhanjiang with these cases, some details of the development of thesetowns are analyzed. Finally, according to this experience for success, this paper gives someadvices for the transformation and update of special towns in Zhanjiang.The main content of this paper includes:Chapter1is the instruction. This chapter mainly indicates the background andsignificance of this paper, research status and way. Some theory foundations are also givenin this chapter.Chapter2is about items, notations and more theory foundations. In this chapter, the concept of special towns and transformation are defined and explained. The theories on thetransformation of special towns are elaborated. By the analyses to the theories ofconventional industrial cluster, modern industrial cluster and special town economic, thischapter lays the theory foundation for the study of this paper.Chapter3focuses on the development status and problems in the process of thetransformation and update of special towns in Zhanjiang. These problems includeunreasonable industrial structure, commonplace orientation, laggard management, shortinvestment and talents, weak innovation ability, hysteretic productive service.Chapter4is about the experience of the transformation in our country. By analyzingsome typical cases, ideas about the transformation of the special towns in Zhanjiang areobtained. The details of the ideas include perfecting government policies, constructingcluster creative network, improving the transformation of industrial structure, attractingforeign investment, paying more attention to talents and brand building, and implementingthe strategy of technology investment and “walking out”.Chapter5deeply analyzes different cases about the transformation of special cases.This chapter considers three typical special towns and introduces the development status ofthe main companies in these towns. Finally, this chapter gives advices on the problems inthe process of special town transformation.Chapter6gives some advices on the transformation of special towns in Zhanjiang,which include playing the service function of government, constructing the advantages ofspecial town industry, strengthening the technology innovation, implementing brand andtalents strategies, building exchanging information channels.