‘Completely Opening Up’? – An Empirical Study of Xi Jinping’s New Taiwan Policy

“全面开放”？

• 批准号: 442642529
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Gunter Schubert
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung für Sinologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/442642529?language=en
• 关键词: Completely; Opening; Up; Empirical; Study

This project proposal builds on earlier research conducted by the applicant. It investigates China’s new Taiwan policy approach, initiated by the government of Xi Jinping after the eruption of Taiwan’s ‘Sunflower Movement’ in spring 2014 and the change of government in Taiwan in 2016. Based on actor-centered institutionalism and the concept of ‘linkage community’, this project focuses on the implementation of China’s recent preferential policies aiming to attract Taiwanese investment and human capital on the one hand and on the responses of both the addressees of these policies and the Taiwan government on the other. This project thus assesses China’s current Taiwan policy which, from the perspective of the central government, serves both local economic development in China and a more effective ‘United Front’ strategy to ‘win the hearts and minds of the Taiwanese’ , a precondition for socio-economic integration and, eventually, political ‘re-unification’. Empirically, the project focuses on different localities in Fujian province (Xiamen, Fuzhou, Pingtan) and Guangdong province (Dongguan, Guangzhou) which have been ‘traditional’ destinations of Taiwanese investment and human capital since the start of China’s ‘reform and opening up’ policies in the later 1970s. It investigates the implementation of China’s preferential policies vis-à-vis Taiwan at the local level in Fujian and Guangdong and the response of different Taiwanese constituencies targeted by these policies – most notably entrepreneurs, university teachers, professionals, white collar workers and students. This project combines a comprehensive study of the cross-strait political economy, including the migration of Taiwanese capital and labour to China, and – since recently – back to Taiwan, with an analysis of China's new Pilot Free Trade Zone Policy, thus building on an earlier preliminary study on the new PFTZ policy in Fujian. As the first project to look into these issues, it will generate new insights into both the current dynamics of the cross-strait relationship and the ongoing reform and transformation of the Chinese economy.

本项目建议书建立在申请人先前进行的研究基础上。它调查了中国新的对台政策方针，这是习近平政府在2014年春天台湾“向日葵运动”爆发和2016年台湾政府更迭后发起的。本研究以行动者为中心的制度主义和“联系共同体”的概念为基础，重点考察中国大陆近年来吸引台商投资和人力资本的优惠政策的实施情况，以及政策对象和台湾政府的反应。因此，本项目评估中国目前的对台政策，从中央政府的角度来看，既服务于中国地方经济发展，也服务于更有效的“统一战线”战略，以“赢得台湾人的心”，这是社会经济融合的先决条件，最终是政治“重新统一”。从经验上讲，该项目侧重于福建省（厦门，福州，平潭）和广东省（东莞，广州）的不同地区，这些地区自20世纪70年代末中国“改革开放”政策开始以来一直是台商投资和人力资本的“传统”目的地。报告调查了福建和广东省地方一级维斯台优惠政策的实施情况，以及这些政策所针对的不同台湾群体的反应，其中最主要的是企业家、大学教师、专业人士、白色白领工人和学生。本项目结合了对两岸政治经济的全面研究，包括台湾资本和劳动力向中国大陆的迁移，以及最近回到台湾，以及对中国新的自由贸易试验区政策的分析，从而建立在对福建新的自由贸易试验区政策的早期初步研究的基础上。作为研究这些问题的第一个项目，它将对当前两岸关系的动态和中国经济正在进行的改革和转型产生新的见解。