The Yangtze River Delta is primarily comprised of Shanghai City, Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province. Since the reform and opening-up, with the activation of the endogenous power of economic development and flow of external capital into the manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Delta, the manufacturing sector in this zone has developed at a rapid rate and is gradually becoming an international manufacturing base with Shanghai at the center. The Yangtze River Delta is the backbone of contemporary Chinese manufacturing sector.
The book systematically and integrally examines topics such as the fundamental situation, structural change, dynamic mechanism, industrial organizations, spatial layout and institutional environment of the development of the manufacturing sector in the Yangtze River Delta under the deeply expanding trend of economic globalization from historical, realistic and logical scenarios. It also reveals the trend, law, experience, lessons, development contradiction, future strategic orientation and other issues of the development of the manufacturing sector in the Yangtze River Delta in both theory and practice. It is of valuable reference for the in-depth understanding and study of regional development in the Yangtze River Delta.
