Abstract
The characteristic town policy plays a significant carrier of China’s new urbanization construction and it spreads all over China in a rapid way based on the method of “absorption-radiation”. Based on the perspective of policy diffusion theory, this paper analyzes the innovation and adoption characteristic town policy in 31 provincial administrative units and explores the influence factors of the characteristic town policy diffusion. The outcomes demonstrate that in the temporal dimension, the diffusion of the characteristic town policy among provincial governments is in line with the classic S-shaped cumulative distribution curve and the diffusion process can be grouped into three stages. In addition, in the spatial dimension, the characteristic town policy ranges from the central government to local government and from superior level to inferior level, showing a certain level of effect. In just three years after the policy was promulgated, 29 provincial governments have formulated construction plans for the characteristic towns, cultivating 403 national characteristic towns and more than 10,000 characteristic towns above the prefectural level. Besides, among the internal and external factors such as economic status, urbanization rate, area of jurisdiction and central pressure play a vital role in affecting the diffusion of characteristic town policy.
Highlights
In recent years, China has vigorously promoted the construction of new urbanization
This paper employs the portal web of the relevant central government departments and provincial and regional governments and analyzes the policies formulated by the central government and 31 provincial governments from 2015 to 2019 to build characteristic towns, In order to explore the innovative diffusion process of the characteristic town policy among Chinese provincial governments, the provincial government that formulated the characteristic town policy will be considered as governments having adopted the characteristic town policy
The diffusion of characteristic town policy among provincial governments is correspondent with the classic S-shaped cumulative distribution curve, which can be divided into three stages
Summary
China has vigorously promoted the construction of new urbanization. some cities and towns blindly pursue urban scale, which is in-. In April 2015, Zhejiang province issued the “Guiding Principals of the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province on Accelerating the Planning and Construction of Characteristic Towns”, in which a batch of characteristic towns will be built in three years which embrace distinctive industrial features, flexible institutional mechanisms, strong cultural atmosphere, beautiful ecological environment, and multiple functions. Later, this policy was adopted by the central government and was rapidly promoted throughout the China, achieving fruitful outcomes. This paper employs the portal web of the relevant central government departments and provincial and regional governments and analyzes the policies formulated by the central government and 31 provincial governments (except Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan) from 2015 to 2019 to build characteristic towns, In order to explore the innovative diffusion process of the characteristic town policy among Chinese provincial governments, the provincial government that formulated the characteristic town policy will be considered as governments having adopted the characteristic town policy
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