西部地区大城市撤县设区的逻辑研究--以成都市为个案

Logical Research on Transforming County into District by Metropolises in Western China——A Case Study of Chengdu City

西部地区大都市撤县设区存在"大都市区治理""为增长而竞争"两种理论面向与逻辑进路。基于成都市的案例分析,研究发现,撤县设区是由中心城市为应对经济增长竞争中所主导的大都市区扩张过程,在西部大城市处于竞争弱势的前提下,撤县设区在实质上造成了"马太效应",不利于后发地区大城市的有序科学发展。

The transformation of counties into districts by metropolitan areas in Western China can be explained with two theoretical orientations and logical approaches,namely 'governance of metropolitan area' and 'competition for growth'.Based on the case study of Chengdu City,the research in this paper finds that transforming county into district is an expansion process of metropolitan areas adopted by central cities to cope with the competition-dominated economic growth.Given that the metropolises in western China are in a competitive disadvantage,transforming county into district actually leads to the Matthew Effect,which will further hinder the orderly and reasonable development of the metropolises in the late-developing areas.