Regionalisation and Integration in China: Lessons from the Transformation of the Beef Industry

by Colin G. Brown, John W. Longworth, Scott A. Waldron

Changing economic, institutional and market environments have turned the spatial inter-relationships thought to exist in China upside-down. Through an investigation of the beef industry, this text builds a picture of where regionalization and integration are heading in China. It examines the impacts of market forces, industry characteristics, relative factor endowments and government influence on the spatial organization of activities. It reveals the influence of government as priorities are re-assessed and as markets and industries develop, as well as exploring the extent of regional co-ordination and co-operation and how central and local government policies and strategies reconcile.

299 pages, Hardcover

Published May 1, 2002