Inter-administrative region coordination in the new urban district construction: A case study of Gui-An New District

The construction of the new urban district is one of the main strategies to extend the urban space in China. In recent years, with the performance of the national balanced development strategy of the regional economics, the inter-administrative regional construction of the new urban district has been a tendency aiming to remove the administrative division barrier and facilitate the regional economic development. However, problems also arise in the new urban district under the background of the inter-administrative region such as the predicament caused by the ubiquitous regional economic cooperation and competition as well as the public governance, the lack of the management main body qualifi cation and the monotonous means of coordination. Referring to the experiences of the US in the inter-administrative region administration in the metropolitan area, the author is to put forward countermeasures and suggestions from such two aspects as the management system and the working mechanism.