The rise and decline of China's export processing zones

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 5, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 281-303

  Reardon, Lawrence C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; ECONOMIC POLICY; ELITE POLITICS; EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE; OUTWARD-ORIENTATED DEVELOPMENT; OUTWARD-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 0030404567     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670569608724256     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. While differing in size, location, goods produced, investment incentives, cost of production inputs, etc., EPZs share a common mercantilist heritage of the state attempting to promote economic development by encouraging export production. Policy makers designate specific geographical areas for export production, and provide the necessary infrastructure (transport systems, water, electricity, telecommunications), preferential access to production inputs (domestic and foreign raw and semi-processed materials land, and factory rents, skilled and semi-skilled labor) as well as financing and tax incentives (tax holidays, accelerated depreciation rates, low-interest loans) to attract foreign and/or domestic investors. For a discussion on the differences between various types of export zones, see Antoine Basile and Dimitri Germidis, Investing in Free Export Processing Zones (Paris: OECD, 1984), pp. 20-21.
2. Deng Xiaoping, 'Tequ Jingji Yao Cong Neixiang Zhuandao Waixiang' (The SEZ economy must be transformed from an inwardly- to an outwardly-oriented economy), in Deng Xiaoping, Deng Xiaoping Wenxian. Di San Juan (The collected works of Deng Xiaoping, 3rd vol.) (Beijing: Renmin Chubanshe, 1993), p. 133.
3. Deng Xiaoping, 'Tequ Jingji Yao Cong Neixiang Zhuandao Waixiang' (The SEZ economy must be transformed from an inwardly- to an outwardly-oriented economy), in Deng Xiaoping, Deng Xiaoping Wenxian. Di San Juan (The collected works of Deng Xiaoping, 3rd vol.) (Beijing: Renmin Chubanshe, 1993), p. 133.