The Mechanism Of Inter-governmental Cooperation In The Development Of Metropolitan Area

The outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan clearly proposes to "develop and strengthen urban agglomeration and metropolitan area".As an important strategic component of the spatial pattern of urbanization,metropolitan area is increasingly becoming an important means of boosting high-quality economic development,promoting new urbanization and serving the new development pattern.The government plays a crucial role in the governance and development of metropolitan areas,and intergovernmental collaboration is the first step in deepening regional cooperation in metropolitan areas.Exploring the idea and mechanism of inter-government cooperation is of great significance for breaking the bottleneck and enhancing the competitiveness of metropolitan area.Taking the Hangzhou metropolitan area as an example,this study builds an analytical framework for the occurrence mechanism of intergovernmental collaboration based on the theory of intergovernmental relations,collaborative governance,new regionalism,and DPSIR model.Through classified discussions,case studies,and comparative analysis,this paper expounds in detail "why the inter-government cooperation occurs" of intergovernmental cooperation in Hangzhou metropolitan area.The occurrence mechanism refers to the causes and processes of intergovernmental collaboration in metropolitan areas.This study divides it into reaching mechanism and feedback mechanism with time sequence,and the mechanism is described according to four types of inter-governmental cooperation: co-construction type,complementary type,compensation type and distributive type.In the process of achieving inter-governmental cooperation,the driving force(D)includes interest,bureaucracy and problem.The interest drive is the most common and critical one.The bureaucracy drive is suitable for inter-governmental cooperation with high cooperation risks,while the problem drive is often seen in the ecological field.Pressure(P)refers to the flow tendency of resources,specifically refers to the concentration,distribution,replacement and compensation of resources.State(S)refers to the expected and realistic state of regional integration,industrial structure and ecological environment,influence(I)includes the adjustment of local government development strategies and inter-governmental relations.The feedback effect of intergovernmental collaboration presents a differentiation of enhancement,substitution,transformation,and weakening in the driving force(D).In the pressure(P),it manifests itself in promoting resource aggregation,upgrading,transformation,and "secondary distribution".In the actual and expected state(S),it presents a positive interaction and progressive adjustment feature.In the impact(I),it manifests itself in the optimization and adjustment of development strategies and the horizontal enhancement of intergovernmental relations Longitudinal stability or weakening and oblique expansion.In view of the existing problems in Hangzhou metropolitan area intergovernment cooperation,such as administrative barriers,provincialism and market segmentation,absence of high-level promotion,supervision and assessment,cognitive differences and poor information feedback,it is recommended to optimize from the aspects of optimizing the spatial structure of the metropolitan area,improving the benefit sharing mechanism,giving full play to vertical embedded governance,perfecting the planning system,and establishing a supervision and assessment system as well as information feedback mechanism at the metropolitan area level.