The Paradox of County Management in Central and Western China and Its Explanation:An Analytical Perspective Based on Urban Hierarchy Structure
County management is the leading mode to promote county urbanization in the central and western regions,which makes county urbanization generally fall into the trap of low-quality development This study introduces the analytical perspective of urban hierarchical structure and relies on the case study method to explain the occurrence mechanism of the paradox of county management in central and western China.The study shows that urban management coordinates the relationship between urban construction investment and urban economic development,which is the result of the integration of the management driving mechanism,the management constraint mechanism,and the development transformation mechanism.Urban hierarchical structure affects the operation of the urban management mechanism.The counties are located at the bottom of the urban hierarchy,and the basic characteristics of county management are to drive urban operation with the commercialization of public services and to make capital investment under weak operation constraints and weak development transformation mechanisms.Therefore,the strong resource mobilization ability obtained by overdraft collides with the inefficient public expenditure,which makes county urbanization fall into the management paradox of weak development,high absorption,and high risk.This shows that the counties in central and western China are located in the middle zone of urban and rural areas with a weak market and a strong society,and thus it is not expected to adopt risky urban management strategy but should regard public services that protect the interests of farmers and maintain social stability as the core content of county urbanization.
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