New Approaches to Local and Regional Development in the UK and China

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Both the UK (and EU) and China are characterised by wide spatial disparities. Policy makers in the UK (and EU) and China are seeking to develop new ways of understanding the role of such spatial inequalities in the process of economic growth and to develop appropriate public policies and have committed themselves to achieving more spatially balanced forms of economic development. Despite these common concerns there has been no attempt to date to examine in these issues in a UK/China comparative context. This proposed project will take the form of two seminars to be held in the UK and China which will bring together leading researchers to address these questions. The researchers in question are working closely with their respective governments (and international organisations) on these questions and it is intended these deliberations will directly inform policy-makers, including the China State Council and National Development and Reform Commission and HM Treasury, Department of Business Innovation and Skills and Deaprtament of Communities and Local Government. The project builds on and deepens evolving research links between two institutions: the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University and the Institute of Spatial Planning and Regional Economy, Academy of Macroeconomy, National Development and Reform Commission, Beijing. It is intended to publish papers from the seminars in a special of an international peer-reviewed journal and in book form in Chinese.