Promoting regional collaborative development through administrative collaborative governance:Examples of collaborative efforts to promote standardization of institutional affairs in Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle
With the increasing emphasis on the strategic position of regional synergy development policies in China,increasing studies on regional synergy have been paid attention to by the academic community,but the current academic community has yet to elucidate the bottleneck causes and solutions of regional synergy,as well as the corresponding new mechanisms of regional synergy. This study attempts to focus on this,to sort out the mechanisms of regional synergy bottlenecks and new mechanisms of regional synergy at the theoretical level,as well as to test the two theoretical frameworks at the empirical level through case studies and questionnaire surveys on the collaboration of Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in promoting the standardization of institutional affairs. The case study found that in the case of institution affairs,for instance,there are governance scale differences in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle,which together with the central policy regulation constitute the internal and external motivation for synergy,driving the willingness of the Chengdu-Chongqing region to deepen the cooperation and involve in the regional synergy At the same time,the phenomenon of local protectionism is also in the standardization of institutional affairs in the collaborative work,and impede the synergistic development of the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle. The questionnaire data further validated the results of the case study:it is important to promote the synergistic region to strengthen the administrative governance synergy and to promote the unity of the governance scale,and the implementation of the standardization of Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle can help promote the synergistic development of the region,while the standardization of the administrative governance synergy also enhances the synergistic and mutual trust awareness of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle,and eliminates,to a certain extent,the administrative barriers and local protectionism The current Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle cadres involved in the synergistic reward and punishment mechanism is deficient,the administrative governance synergy needs to be developed,and the local sense of propriety needs to be further resolved. Based on this,this study argues that the phenomenon of local protection is a governance product derived from China's longstanding regional division of governance,and that eliminating local protectionism and strengthening regional integration thinking may become an inevitable requirement for breaking the bottleneck of synergy,while administrative collaborative governance based on the perspective of administrative scale may become an inevitable path choice for regional synergy through the construction of a governance scale that is compatible with the regional space. In addition,synergy is a process of continuous development and transformation based on the time vector,and local governments should seek reasonable regional synergy by firmly grasping the three core elements of regional synergy,namely,"motivation-path-purpose" in different stages.
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