关键词: 苏南模式重组, 区位选择, 企业迁移, 城市化, 无锡

Abstract:

The Sunan model attributes the development of Sunan (Southern Jiangsu) to the local state-directed township and village enterprises (TVEs). However, with intensifying global competition in China, since the early 1990s Sunan has moved “beyond the Sunan model” through privatization and the infusion of global capital, especially Taiwanese investment. However, Sunan shows a great diversity of evolution in the development and restructuring. The research on Sunan deals largely with the development of peri-urban areas represented by national or provincial development zones, rather than the evolution of the Sunan model. This article investigates economic restructuring and industrial location in Wuxi city, especially the Nanchang district, to better understand the remaking of Sunan model and spatial change. The paper analyzed how the manufacturing firm migration and new firm locational choice influenced industrial upgrading and spatial patterns as well as the impact of the government on regional transformation. This study based on the spatial analysis of a large amount of enterprise data, and questionnaire survey and interviews of local officials and company managers. The results showed that the manufacturing industry in Nanchang had experienced changes in property rights, structure and space successively under the promotion of economic transformation and urbanization. The manufacturing industry had exhibited some characteristics of urbanization obviously, such as endogenous development chiefly through high-tech advancement and highly concentrated in industrial parks. The government applied regulatory planning and financial policies such as development zone construction, tax and so on to gradually move out the traditional manufacture with high-pollution and low-added value and attract high-tech enterprises. What governments do in this process is very different from what they did in the traditional Sunan model, which was to step in business of enterprise directly. However, there are many new challenges both the local government and manufacturing firms must face, including the shortage of highly skilled labor, the unemployment of lower skilled workers, and the relocation of the manufacturing enterprises from urban zones into industrial parks.

Key words: restructuring of Sunan model, locational choice, firm relocation, urbanization, Wuxi