As a new mode for Chinese overseas investment and a growth pole for industrialization and
urbanization of the host countries, the overseas economic and trade cooperation zone …

How do states pursue industrial policies in the context of China's rise? Examining Indonesia
and Malaysia's mineral processing sectors, we argue that these countries illustrate two …

Abstract There are over 5,000 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the world. About 75
percent of developing economies and almost all transition economies use SEZs in their …

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not
merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes …

Chinese overseas companies remain a “black box” in the bourgeoning China-Africa
research. Less is known about how inter-state diplomacy, firm strategies, and employee …

This paper unpacks the compound labor regime (CLR) of Chinese construction projects in
Africa to investigate the spatial politics of management strategy and workers' agency. It …

Chinese special economic zones (SEZs) have played a key role in attracting massive
foreign investment and in facilitating knowledge and technology transfer to local companies …

The relationship between industrialisation and urban development is subject to assumptions
based on experiences in the global North, with little research on how it plays out in countries …

The most significant case of transnational state capitalism today is China's Belt and Road
Initiative (BRI) which seeks to expand/extend the country's geoeconomic and geopolitical …

Focusing on the highly 'successful'China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), this study
taps into a less explored topic of housing development in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) …