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Citation	Lever-Tracy, Constance, David Ip, and Noel Tracy. “Rural Industrialization and Global Markets: Partnership Ventures in Guangdong and Jiansu.” Regional Development Studies 3 (1996/97): 57-81.
Title	Rural Industrialization and Global Markets: Partnership Ventures in Guangdong and Jiansu
Year	1997
Author	Ip, David F. Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Science, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Author	Lever-Tracy, Constance Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Science, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Author	Tracy, Noel Lecturer in Politics and Political Economy, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Material Type	Journal Article
Features	58 notes; 9 tables
Pages	p. 57-81
Relationships	Part of 298 p. Regional Development Studies, Vol. 3, Winter 1996/97
Subjects	CHINA 01.04.04 EXPORTS 09.05.05 FOREIGN INVESTMENT 11.03.03 GLOBALIZATION 01.02.01 INDUSTRIALIZATION 08.01.02 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION 01.01.01 JOINT VENTURES 03.03.05 LOCAL LEVEL 04.03.03 PARTNERSHIP 01.01.01 SUPERVISORS 13.09.03 VILLAGES 14.04.02
Abstract	A striking example of the paradox of localism and globalism is the rapid growth, in the last decade, of world market-oriented industrialization in the coastal provinces of China. It will be argued that this dynamic, which has become the cutting edge of China's economic development, has taken place largely through the local initiative of entrepreneurial peasants and very low-level government officials with strong village roots. It has, on the other hand, increasingly become associated with an influx of foreign capital and a multiplication of joint ventures between rural enterprises and overseas investors. The first part of the article will describe and discuss these developments. The second part reports on a survey of 156 participants between rural governments or enterprises and foreign investors, in two counties in Guangdong Province, Nanhai and Panyu, and in the Suzhou region in Jiangsu Province. The article describes these partnerships and their activities and compares the areas. It then seeks to analyse the nature of the relationship and the relative influence of the partners. A quite different balance is found to exist, with foreign investors playing the leading role in Guangdong, while strong village communities are more likely to take the initiative and assert themselves in Jiangsu. --Journal abstract
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