A MICRO-LEVEL SAMPLE OF CHINA'S GRADUAL REFORM:INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE OF COLLECTIVELY-OWNED LAND IN NANHAI DISTRICT,FOSHAN CITY
In order to cope with the great impact of institutional replacement,the Chinese government adopts the mode of gradual reform as a means of steady-state governance.This paper builds an analytical framework for the institutional change in gradual reform,carries out a diachronic study on the institutional change of collectively-owned land in Nanhai District,and points out that the institutional misalignment between Nanhai District and the Central Government in the initial stage has been a path-dependence factor in the micro-level gradual reform.The local government,as the subordinate government in the hierarchical administrative structure of China and the actual administrator of the social field,serves as a"lubricant"for the central system to regulate the social field.Meanwhile,it collaborates with market actors to engender innovative institutional change that can meet the actual local needs.Through the transmission and feedback of institutional change in related systems and the social field,the gradual reforms at both macro and micro levels can evolve in an interactive way.In the end,the paper concludes that local institutional change is an indispensable support for deepening the reforms in the social field and holds important practical value to the central institutional change.
gradual reforminstitutional changecollectively-owned land systemNanhai District
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