The transborder economic region of Hong Kong - Shenzhen

Abstract

A few transborder regions have appeared in the 1970s as a consequence of international di-vision of labour in manufacturing arising from globalization of economic activities. The border-ing cities of Hong Kong and Shenzhen belong to different ideologies and systems of gover-nance, yet they have since the late 1970s gradually developed into a highly interrelated trans-border economic region. Such development has promoted economic growth of Shenzhen and deepened the structural transformation of Hong Kong into a higher status in international trade, shipping, and finance. The mutual causative transborder development in the past decade had largely been initiated and participated by private investors following the rule of the mar-ket. After 1997, with the return of Hong Kong to China,transborder cooperation is expected to receive more government attention and achieve promotion. Of course the continue existence of a demarcation is crucial to transborder cooperation and will benefit both places. The case of Hong Kong-Shenzhen is different from other transborder regions such as the Singapore Trian-gle. 本文以70年代末中國改革開放以來香港-深圳這兩個分屬不同社會制度的城市的發展和緊密結合而形成跨境城市經濟區為個案研究對象,總結兩者各自的城市發展歷史,分析兩地在過往10余年間的跨境發展特征及相互影響。一方面深圳借助于香港資本流入等因素發展成為現代化的大都市;另一方面香港跨境向深圳、珠江三角洲經濟腹地擴散,促進了其產業升級和國際貿易、金融和航運中心地位的鞏固。過往10多年香港-深圳跨境的區域發展是由市場規范的、自發和民間促成的。隨著“九七”香港回歸祖國,這一跨境城市經濟區的發展應由兩地政府積極、主動地參與和管理。同時,港深管理線的存在及其完整性對保持和促進這一跨境城市經濟區的發展是至關重要的。