外来投资与城市化发展——对东莞和昆山城市化的实证研究

Outside Direct Investment and Urbanization -A Case Study of Dongguan and Kunshan's Urbanization

在经济全球化的时代背景下,资本跨国或跨地区的流动性大大增强,使一部分地区实现跨越式的工业化和城市化成为可能,作为依靠外来投资实现跨越式工业化和城市化的不发达地区,怎样处理好与外来投资的关系是它们能否实现工业化和城市化的关键,而这种关系的安排就是制度的安排或创新,制度是外生型城市化的核心要素和主要动力机制,这就是东莞和昆山城市化实践给人们的启示,以及对城市化理论的丰富。

With economic globalization, mobility of capital beyond state and regional border has significantly increased, which makes it possible for some underdeveloped regions to realize industrialization and urbanization with a leap-frog pattern through outside direct investment. How to deal with the relations with investors is a crucial challenge for local governments. This, however, entails institutional reform or innovation. In other words, institutional reform or innovation is a key mechanism for their industrialization and urbanization through outside direct investment. This is what we have been told by the cases of Dongguang and Kunshan. Their experience is also meaningful for the theory of urbanization.