Liu, Z., Fang, H., Xu, S., Wu, Y., Wen, K., Shen, Z., & Wang, H. Retain or Remove? Decision-Making Mechanism of Rural Industrial Park Redevelopment in Nanhai District, China. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12, 1347723.
Liu, Z., Fang, H., Xu, S., Wu, Y., Wen, K., Shen, Z., & Wang, H. Retain or Remove? Decision-Making Mechanism of Rural Industrial Park Redevelopment in Nanhai District, China. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12, 1347723.
Liu, Z., Fang, H., Xu, S., Wu, Y., Wen, K., Shen, Z., & Wang, H. Retain or Remove? Decision-Making Mechanism of Rural Industrial Park Redevelopment in Nanhai District, China. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12, 1347723.
Liu, Z., Fang, H., Xu, S., Wu, Y., Wen, K., Shen, Z., & Wang, H. Retain or Remove? Decision-Making Mechanism of Rural Industrial Park Redevelopment in Nanhai District, China. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12, 1347723.
Abstract
Since China’s economic reform launched in the late 1970s, rural industrial parks (RIPs) have played a crucial role in the rise of the manufacturing industry in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), transforming the former agricultural land into a location of world-famous factories. However, as China has put forward higher requirements for economic development and stricter control measures for environmental pollution, RIPs with low-end industries and low efficiency present an urgent need for renovation and upgrade. By analyzing the spatial and socioeconomic cross-sectional dataset of rural industrial parks in Nanhai District of Foshan City, this paper attempts to classify the existing industrial parks into groups and propose corresponding redevelopment strategies. The results of the spatial analysis show that the spatial distribution of rural industrial parks is closely related to their location and transportation conditions. Failure of the market has resulted in large tracts of advantageous land being taken up by inefficient industrial parks. Cluster analysis and overlay analysis are used evaluate the difficulty of redevelopment and divide the industrial parks into three clusters: retained RIPs, medium-term-removed RIPs, and near-term-removed RIPs. It is shown that some of the industrial parks are still in good form while the majority need substantial reconstruction. Taking economic and institutional factors into consideration, the authors put forward that different strategies should be adopted for the future renovation of medium-term-removed and near-term-removed RIPs.
Keywords
rural industrial park; urban renewal; decision-making mechanism; cluster analysis; China
Subject
Social Sciences, Urban Studies and Planning
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