Distinctive transnational city-to-city partnerships, decentralization, and local governance of China as a Global East Country.

ABSTRACT: Against the background of globalisation and state rescaling, promoting decentralisation and enhancing local governance capacity have become prioritised objectives of transnational city-to-city partnerships mainly between developed and developing countries. However, considering the critical debates on Global East's uniqueness, two questions emerge when studying the transnational partnerships of Chinese cities. (1) Are Chinese cities' partnership establishments and objectives remarkably different from the existing international body of knowledge? (2) In China, whether decentralisation and local governance are promoted by city-to-city transnational partnerships as well? To cope with the questions, this paper examines 28 Chinese world cities' partnership establishments and objectives and reach

SUBMITTER: Xu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10361467 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature