A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
by Alain de Botton · 1 Jan 2009 · 66pp · 19,580 words
’ and help them master business English, a subcategory of the language that would vouchsafe future careers in the semi-conductor and textile industries of the Pearl River delta. For his part, Mohammed was waiting for Chris’s flight from San Francisco. The former, originally from Lahore, was at present based in Southall, while
Aerotropolis
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words
and villages that lie just beyond their borders, or to the national capitals that supposedly call their shots. It’s how the cities of the Pearl River Delta can become “the world’s factory,” and why their fate is bound up in the flat-screen TV you dragged home from Best Buy. It
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developing one, from a city of skyscrapers to a sprawl of factory towns on a scale Henry Ford could not have foreseen. Beyond lies the Pearl River Delta, stretching for a hundred miles inland. For Liam Casey this chasm is his commute. Twice, his driver handed over our passports at checkpoints, opening the
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China’s “special economic zones” in 1980. Foreign firms were invited to open shop here with few constraints or taxes, triggering the transformation of the Pearl River Delta into “the factory of the world” and Shenzhen into the “Overnight City,” having grown two-hundred-fold since then. While Shanghai’s Blade Runner landscape
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transport costs—with increasing returns to scale—generally means more spatial concentration of production,” the report’s authors deduced. In essence, the jet invented the Pearl River Delta. How? The bank suggested a formula: supply chains + clustering + air power = higher productivity the bigger cities get. How big is too big isn’t clear
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for the Delta was spelled out in the National Development and Reform Commission’s “Outline of the Plan for the Reform and Development of the Pearl River Delta (2008–2020).” Rem Koolhaas’s comments on Zhuhai’s failure were published in Mutations, while his mention of its aerotropolis appears in Great Leap Forward
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De Boer, 215, 216 Hobbes, Thomas, 207 Hong Kong, China, 24; as aerotropolis, 378, 382; capacity challenges facing, 372; connected via high-speed rail to Pearl River Delta, 378; economy of, Hong Kong (cont. ) 374; as export gateway, 372; Pear River Delta managed by, 375, 376, 377–78, 380–81; political autonomy of
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. Brooks, 185 PCH International, 361, 362, 363–64 Peachtree Center, 112 peak food, 234–36 peak oil, 234, 329–33, 344, 430, 431; calculating, 330 Pearl River Delta, 360–64, 366–69, 371–87; development and reform of, 374, 376, 378, 432–33; early factories on, 384–85; as “factory to world,” 362
The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells · 31 Aug 1996 · 843pp · 223,858 words
world’s largest urban agglomerations (>10 million inhabitants in 1992) 6.5 Diagrammatic representation of major nodes and links in the urban region of the Pearl River Delta 6.6 Downtown Kaoshiung 6.7 The entrance hall of Barcelona airport 6.8 The waiting room at D.E. Shaw and Company 6.9
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in the first edition of this volume, is a loosely connected region that extends from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, incorporating the manufacturing villages of the Pearl River Delta, the booming city of Shenzhen, on the Hong Kong border, and the adjacent areas of Zhuhai and Macau, each one with a distinctive economy and
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MIMOSA model. Copyright © CEPII-OFCE. The Chinese University Press: Fig. 6.5 “Diagrammatic representation of major nodes and links in the urban region of the Pearl River Delta,” elaborated by E. Woo, “Urban Development,” in Y. M. Yeung and D. K. Y. Chu, Guandong: Survey of a Province Undergoing Rapid Change. Copyright © 1994
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.32 Yet, by then, medium–large businesses subcontracted much of their own production to firms (small, medium, and large) across the Chinese border in the Pearl River Delta. By the mid-1990s, somewhere between six and ten million workers, depending upon the estimates used, were involved in Guandong province in these subcontracting production
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direct impact of trade, Wood33 estimates that between 1960 and 1990 20 million manufacturing jobs have been created in the South. In Guandong province’s Pearl River Delta alone, between 5 and 6 million workers were hired in factories in semi-rural areas between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s.34 But
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people: what is emerging is a mega-city of 40–50 million people, connecting Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Macau, and small towns in the Pearl River Delta, as I shall develop below. Mega-cities articulate the global economy, link up the informational networks, and concentrate the world’s power. But they are
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be one of the pre-eminent industrial, business, and cultural centers of the twenty-first century, without indulging in futurology: the Hong Kong–Shenzhen–Canton–Pearl River Delta–Macau–Zhuhai metropolitan regional system.73 Let us look at the mega-urban future from this vantage point (see figure 6.5). In 1995, this
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of such staggering metropolitan development are three interlinked phenomena: Figure 6.5 Diagrammatic representation of major nodes and links in the urban region of the Pearl River Delta Source : Woo (1994) 1 The economic transformation of China, and its link-up to the global economy, with Hong Kong being one of the nodal
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of the largest- scale processes of industrialization in human history in the small towns of the Pearl River Delta. By the end of 1994, Hong Kong investors, often using family and village connections, had established in the Pearl River Delta 10,000 joint ventures and 20,000 processing factories, in which were working about 6 million
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Ware, Willis H. (1993) “The electronic medical record”, Information Society, 9(2): 157–88. Ling, K.K. (1995) “A case for regional planning: the Greater Pearl River Delta: a Hong Kong perspective”, unpublished research seminar paper, CP 229, Berkeley, CA: University of California, Department of City and Regional Planning. Lizzio, James R. (1994
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economic changes, skills, and international competitiveness”, International Labour Review, 133(2): 107–83. Sit, Victor Fueng-Shuen (1991) “Transnational capital flows and urbanization in the Pearl River Delta, China”, Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, 19(1–2): 154–79. —— and Wong, S.L. (1988) Changes in the Industrial Structure and the Role
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. Chesnais, François Chida, Tomohei Child, John Chile Chin, Pei-Hsiung Chin, S. W. China; exports; Falun Gong; family firms; global economy; industrialization; innovation; Internet; networking; Pearl River Delta; state intervention; technology; television; trade; WTO; see also Hong Kong; Taiwan chips Chizuko, Ueno cholular Christensen, Ward Chrysler Jefferson North Plant chuki koyo Cisco Systems
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center; Villejuif Park, Young-bum Parkinson, G. H. R. Parsons, Carol part-time work Patel, S. J. patriarchalism patrilineal/patrimonial logic Paugham, S. Payr, Sabine Pearl River Delta peer-to-peer networks: see p2p networks pension funds perestroika Perez, Carlotta Perlman, Janice Personal Computer personal services personalized devices Peru Peter the Great Peterson
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
by Donovan Hohn · 1 Jan 2010 · 473pp · 154,182 words
container ship at the height of the winter storm season. Or to ride a high-speed ferry through the smoggy, industrial backwaters of China’s Pearl River Delta, where, inside the Po Sing plastic factory, I would witness yellow pellets of polyethylene resin transmogrify into icons of childhood. I’d never given the
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weeks’ notice to set everything up. Dongguan, I learned, is an industrial town in the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, an alluvial maze of factories and shipping routes radiating outward into Guangdong Province from Hong Kong. The Pearl River Delta is mainly what people have in mind when they talk about China’s “economic miracle.” Newspapers
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,” a phrase, first applied to England in the nineteenth century, that has in the twenty-first century drifted east. The iPod is manufactured in the Pearl River Delta, and so is Chicken Dance Elmo. So are most of the cheap, ubiquitous goods labeled MADE IN CHINA that we Americans buy. Although, reading the
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newspaper, I tended to imagine the Pearl River Delta as a polluted wasteland where workers toiled miserably away in dark Satanic mills, not all my Pearl River dreams were bad ones. In The Oracle
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Hessler quotes a song sung in commemoration of the country’s thirty-year experiment with capitalism, an experiment that began when Deng Xiaoping established the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone. “In the spring of 1979,” one verse of this song goes,An old man drew a circle on the southern coast of China
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paddies and fishing towns that preceded it, the annual growth rate in some years surpassed 30 percent. Despite recent competition from Beijing and Shanghai, the Pearl River Delta remains China’s most productive region. Home to just 3 percent of the country’s population, it nonetheless accounts for more than 25 percent of
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China’s foreign trade. The late Chinese sociologist Fei Xiaotong once described the Pearl River Delta as “a store at the front and a factory in the back.” Hong Kong is the store; Guangdong Province is the factory. Journeying from the
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, Asian exports into American imports. It is a semipermeable membrane as well as a semiautonomous region. In 2007, more than sixty thousand factories in the Pearl River Delta belonged to Hong Kong interests. Those factories are the primary source of both the city’s prodigious wealth and its equally prodigious smog, a sulfurous
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drops us off at the train station at Lo Wu, where we are to pass through Chinese customs separately, reuniting on the other side. The Pearl River Delta is so densely developed that some demographers regard it as a single, uninterrupted megalopolis, a Delaware-size economic organism with two nuclei: Hong Kong in
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between Mexico and California. Here, as there, the border security serves mainly to control the tide of illegal immigrants seeking better wages, though in the Pearl River Delta that tide flows south instead of north. Here, as there, many of those immigrants speak a foreign language—Mandarin or a provincial dialect, not Cantonese
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store cashier, and sends me on my way, to meet up with Henry Tong. It might be different elsewhere in China, but here in the Pearl River Delta the entropy of the marketplace has overwhelmed much of the bureaucratic order, for better and for worse. The crime rates in some of the Delta
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, and so, almost, are the freedoms.22 If anything, it’s piratical capitalists not bureaucratic Communists that one has to worry most about in the Pearl River Delta.23 The previous June, when a business correspondent for the New York Times paid a surprise visit to the RC2 Industrial Park in Dongguan that
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in poster-size photographs of brand-name office equipment—Canon printers, Panasonic faxes, Xerox machines. Three decades ago, this freeway didn’t exist, and the Pearl River Delta was still mostly farmland. Peasants still cultivate what little undeveloped land remains, growing banana trees among warehouses, cabbages under highway interchanges. We pass silos and
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in Dongguan. It’s getting harder and harder to find and keep good workers, Chan tells me, now that the demand for labor in the Pearl River Delta has at last begun to exceed the supply. Many workers move from factory to factory until they find the job and boss they like best
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Massachusetts, where Ron Sidman’s parents started turning out playthings a half century ago, to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, then flooding the banks of the Pearl River Delta, before rippling northward to Shanghai and Beijing and southward toward Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam, leaving behind it both greater prosperity and greater economic disparity, higher
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’s toymakers, the great majority of whom may well be law-abiding businessmen. But they do reveal one of the least appreciated resources that the Pearl River Delta has for the past thirty years offered Western companies looking to outsource production: secrecy—secrecy amplified by oceanic distances, protected by multinational corporations and Chinese
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a mouse or else a small rat disappear into a drain. The factory’s owners, themselves migrants from the north who’d come to the Pearl River Delta in pursuit of prosperity, did their business in spare, dusty offices, the windows of which seemed never to have been cleaned. The sunlight coming through
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the euro, and Thomas the Tank Engine more menacing to our children than a tanker of Arabian crude. During the 2007 toy scare, when the Pearl River Delta suddenly stopped keeping its secrets, a disenchantment occurred. We were reminded, to our dismay, that there really is nothing brand-new under the sun. It
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slaves to America’s Rust Belt. Much as competition from the Port of Newark eventually idled Manhattan’s docks, so newer, cheaper ports up the Pearl River Delta have begun to draw business away from Hong Kong. It seemed to me more likely that a citizen of Hong Kong could catch a sneak
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of mystery, seasons of astonishment, zones of the sublime, which not even vast expenditures of capital and ingenuity may ever fully tame. After exploring the Pearl River Delta, I set out to test this augury of mine, this wish. PORT OF CALL. PUSAN. 35°04’N, 129°06’E. It seems that my
Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy
by Adam Tooze · 15 Nov 2021 · 561pp · 138,158 words
highly lopsided. In the 1970s and 1980s, Hong Kong had been a manufacturing hub as well as a financial center. The opening up of the Pearl River Delta on Hong Kong’s doorstep had subjected the city’s light industry to ferocious competitive pressure. Surging real estate prices driven upward by buyers from
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Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP), 180–81 Paris Climate Agreement, 190, 193–94 Paris Club, 255, 255–56 Patrick, Dan, 39 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), 140 Pearl River Delta, 198 Pegatron, 61 Pelosi, Nancy, 12, 222–23, 272–73, 276 Pence, Mike, 76 pension systems, 126, 266, 285 People’s Bank of China, 55
World Cities and Nation States
by Greg Clark and Tim Moonen · 19 Dec 2016
national urban policy has begun to plan its huge scale of urbanisation by identifying large regional city clusters as strongholds of future sustainable development. The Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei regions have all become the subject of regional plans, with the aim of accelerating development, bridging regional
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‐limited cities such as Singapore have not spilled over into a manufacturing hinterland, whereas Hong Kong has been able to through its relationship with the Pearl River Delta. But, for many emerging world cities, the major challenge is dealing with scale and getting 12 World Cities and Nation States Table 1.2: Size
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Shanghai Singapore Seoul Tokyo Toronto 24.2 5.5 9.8 13.5 2.9 6200 720 605 2200 630 Regional population/m Region Greater Pearl River Delta Greater South East Moscow and Moscow Region Mumbai Metropolitan Region Tri‐state region Île‐de‐France São Paulo Metropolitan Region Yangtze River Delta — National Capital
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Mumbai Paris Singapore City Area in km2 Metropolitan Region Area in km2 * Metro area = Area of Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone ** Metro area = Area of Pearl River Delta Economic Zone Figure 1.2: Comparative size of world cities and their metropolitan regions. New York Introduction: Clash of the centuries? 13 30,000 City
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desire to retain its role as gatekeeper to the city’s leadership. Hong Kong is well placed to benefit from further approved integration with the Pearl River Delta, support for its global renminbi trading status and license from central government to play the role of laboratory for Chinese and Asian urbanism. Moscow is
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with a very trusted and stable business climate that operates to globally recognised standards. Hong Kong has also become the managerial centre for the mainland Pearl River Delta (PRD), a phenomenally productive region for export manufacturing that has been described as the ‘world’s factory’. For the last 20 years Hong Kong has
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a visible agricultural character. Hong Kong has an oblique relationship with this system as it is, in effect, the primary regional node in the Greater Pearl River Delta, although Guangzhou, in particular, is beginning to compete with Hong Kong for air visitors and in other areas. Chinese national urban policy has responded to
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long‐term vision for the city, Hong Kong requires an open dialogue of ideas and propositions about its future. Oversee process of deepening integration with Pearl River Delta Hong Kong’s potential to build a free‐trade zone with neighbouring Guangdong may be important in its medium‐term competitiveness. A zone that would
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Committee was formed to advise the Hong Kong government on economic and trade co‐operation between Hong Kong and mainland China, reorganising the previous Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council. The new Consultative Committee on Economic and Trade Co‐operation covers economic and trade issues between Hong Kong and all mainland regions, making
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, Hong Kong was able to expand its international influence after 1997 because of the success of the model and the opportunities for integration with the Pearl River Delta. Its status for the last two decades has been highly attractive to foreign investors seeking access to the Chinese market without the uncertainties of Chinese
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age of world cities 213 Table 15.4: Status of regional governance in 12 world cities Regional tier of government? City Region Hong Kong Greater Pearl River Delta No London Greater South East No Moscow Moscow + Moscow Region Yes (separate) Mumbai No New York Mumbai Metropolitan Region New York Region No Paris Île
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at http://www.tid.gov.hk/english/cepa/cepa_ overview.html. Accessed 2016 Feb 19. Hong Kong International Airport (2011). Five Airports in the Greater Pearl River Delta Sign MOU: Airports to Expand to Meet Demand for Future Growth. Press Release. Available at https://www.hongkongairport.com/eng/media/press‐releases/pr_1025
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system, 9, 208 growth and performance data, 152 national tradition in globalisation, 29 in One Belt, One Road initiative, 158 one country, two systems, 152 Pearl River Delta (PRD), 154, 156, 157, 159 population and visitor growth, 204 regional governance, 213 relationship with Beijing, 154–156 size, 12 India, 10, 16, 30, 98
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and visitor growth, 204 regional governance, 213 relationship with national government, 57–60 size, 12 state-region contracts, 63 territorial development contracts, 59, 63, 66 Pearl River Delta, 7, 11, 12, 17, 152, 157, 159, 161, 211, 213 Persia, 20 Provincial governments, see State governments Putin, Vladimir, 167 Rayy, 20 Regional policies, 22
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by Leslie T. Chang · 6 Oct 2008 · 419pp · 125,977 words
looks out on rice paddies, fishponds, and duck farms; miraculously, people are still farming here. In the seventeenth century, settlers turned the floodplains of the Pearl River Delta into one of China’s most fertile regions, supplying fish, vegetables, and rice to the country and exporting silk to Europe. Today in the land
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in town. It was a hot February morning, the sky bleached a dingy white and the air humming with heat and motorcycle exhaust; in the Pearl River Delta, summer would begin in another month. I took the girls to a noodle shop and ordered Cokes. They sipped them carefully through straws as they
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a clear road map to success: Get to know three people a day. The industry flourished in the small towns and migrant communities of the Pearl River Delta. Here where rural and urban worlds met, people envied the success of others and were hungry to have it themselves. If someone they knew promised
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feng shui. For the living, the pitch focused on the garden’s prime location, its limited number of spaces, and the burgeoning population of the Pearl River Delta. An investor could purchase an entire soul pagoda and then flip individual spaces to buyers at a profit. Chunming’s job was to run training
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a network of ten thousand people. By then Chunming was making forty thousand yuan a month—about five thousand dollars, an astronomical sum in the Pearl River Delta in 1998. The company began laminating her weekly pay slips in sheets of clear plastic so she could show them to recruits as a motivational
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knew who was to blame. “After Zhu Rongji came on,” she said, “he wouldn’t allow network sales anymore, so I stopped.” In the freewheeling Pearl River Delta, where Chunming had learned to talk, where commerce was king and everyone was a winner and to die poor was a sin, the long arm
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world will be different. The chief organizer of the class was named Deng Shunzhang. He was forty years old, and he had come to the Pearl River Delta after a zigzag career back home in Hunan Province that included teaching high school, working in local government, selling newspaper ads, and running a store
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, how the rules of traditional Chinese behavior fit into the modern working world. But that went beyond the curriculum of the White-Collar class. * * * The Pearl River Delta attracted motivational speakers and management gurus of every stripe. At its high end, the market was dominated by corporate experts from Taiwan; some executive seminars
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for the ceremony. That was the true measure of the school’s achievement: the absence of so many young women, scattered up and down the Pearl River Delta, who could not be here tonight because they had already moved on. The teachers were on the move too. Teacher Fu had graduated from college
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showed up unannounced at a friend’s apartment and stayed for days; her changes of clothes and spare toothbrushes were scattered up and down the Pearl River Delta. Once when I met up with Chunming in Shenzhen, she had been away from home for five days but was carrying only a clutch purse
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the room. Something that nice, she figured, would get stolen in no time at all. MIN DECIDED to stay put. Summer had come to the Pearl River Delta, with temperatures in the nineties every day. At night the dorms were stifling; on the factory floor, the chemical smell was so strong that periodically
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my first good friend in Dongguan. Tan Shen at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences gave invaluable advice on navigating the factory towns of the Pearl River Delta. And Min’s parents were generous hosts when I visited their village. Researching this book gave me the opportunity to get to know members of
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words
, the much larger Baltic Union has emerged from Norway to Lithuania and is directly connected to western Europe by the Øresund Bridge. In China’s Pearl River delta—where cities such as Hong Kong, Macau, and Zhuhai have very different legal arrangements with Beijing—a Y-shaped bridge (over artificial islands and through
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, the largest of which is Japan’s Taiheiyo Belt that encompasses two-thirds of Japan’s population in the Tokyo-Nagoya-Osaka megalopolis. China’s Pearl River delta, Greater São Paulo, and Mumbai-Pune are also becoming more integrated through infrastructure. At least a dozen such megacity corridors have emerged already. China is
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Sumatran villages. Singapore doesn’t have a natural hinterland, but now it can buy and build one. Much like Hong Kong’s integration into the Pearl River delta, the more investment, production, and other services become integrated across the three countries, the more they coordinate their master planning of infrastructure to maximize flows
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urbanization strategy come together to elevate its vast civilization toward the “Chinese Dream” of national prosperity? In the summer of 2014, while traveling around the Pearl River delta region of southern China—a loop from Guangzhou via Zhongshan to Zhuhai and Macau and up the eastern side via Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Dongguan
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percent. By 2010, agriculture had fallen to 10 percent, and manufacturing had risen to 46 percent and services to 44 percent. A tour around the Pearl River delta reveals some of the most novel strategies in combining urbanization, SEZs, and innovation to breed megacities that become pillars of innovation and growth. As capital
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Shenzhen seeks to surpass Hong Kong, its authorities have announced a plan to effectively merge with it to create the “Hong Kong–Shenzhen metropolis.” The Pearl River delta is also a case study in the clustering of capital, technology, and knowledge industries. Thanks to Foxconn and other manufacturing giants, by 2013, 40 percent
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food-producing geographies, and potentially home to billions of climate refugees. 33. ONE MEGACITY, MANY SYSTEMS Credit pai1.33 From Guangzhou to Hong Kong, the Pearl River Delta megacity is becoming one integrated economic corridor covering a dozen cities. By 2030 its population could reach 80 million with an economic output of $2
China into Africa: trade, aid, and influence
by Robert I. Rotberg · 15 Nov 2008 · 651pp · 135,818 words
cities were opened to outside investment, and in 1985 the same was done for coastal areas extending the economic zones of the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and South Fujian Triangle Delta. The designated SEZs had previously contributed less than 1 percent of China’s GDP, with a labor force engaged primarily
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operations, 176–78, 306; and, 99; refineries for, 250, 277–78; China and, 308; Sudan and, 257, 266 Sudan and, 256–57, 264; US-China Pearl River Delta, 138 relations and, 304–05; Zimbabwe People’s Daily (newspaper), 220, 225 and, 262 People’s Liberation Army (PLA), 162, Olympics, Beijing (2008), 2, 13
The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
by Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan · 8 Aug 2020 · 438pp · 84,256 words
1978 with reforms to agriculture, an invitation to private enterprises to re-enter the Chinese economy, and the creation of special economic zones (including the Pearl River Delta that we discuss below) where foreign investment was allowed. Though price controls were lifted for urban industries, the economy was still dominated by fairly inefficient
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and businesses were given all the help they needed to set up and operate businesses efficiently. Infrastructure including power and distribution networks was prioritised. The Pearl River Delta in Guangzhou province is the best known and most successful of these economic zones. Since 1978, nearly 30% of all foreign investment has gone to
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by over 3% on average. Starting as a collection of villages amidst a rural landscape even by the mid-1980s, the World Bank describes the Pearl River Delta as the largest urban area in the world today. Its 9 biggest cities house a population of just less than 60 million. Labour: A historic
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workers, increasing proportion in Japan Patriotic nationalism Patterson, C. Pay-as-you-go system PBOC, committed to process of deleveraging PBoC intervene PBoC’s campaign Pearl River Delta PEMEX Pension benefits in Japan, degraded Pension benefits, need to fall for participation to rise Pension, generosity likely to fall Pension, pay-outs to failing
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The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor, and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
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China's Future
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