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

英国（和欧盟）和中国都有很大的空间差异。英国（和欧盟）和中国的政策制定者正在寻求发展新的方法来理解这种空间不平等在经济增长过程中的作用，并制定适当的公共政策，并致力于实现更空间平衡的经济发展形式。尽管存在这些共同的担忧，但迄今为止还没有人试图在英国/中国的比较背景下研究这些问题。这个拟议的项目将采取在英国和中国举行的两次研讨会的形式，这些研讨会将汇集领先的研究人员来解决这些问题。这些研究人员正在与各自的政府（以及国际组织）就这些问题进行密切合作，这些讨论将直接告知政策制定者，包括中国国务院、国家发展和改革委员会、英国财政部、商业创新和技能部以及社区和地方政府部。该项目建立并深化了两个机构之间不断发展的研究联系：纽卡斯尔大学城市与区域发展研究中心和北京国家发展和改革委员会宏观经济研究院空间规划与区域经济研究所。计划在国际同行评议期刊的专刊上发表研讨会的论文，并以中文成书出版。

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.