The Pearl River Delta,
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By staff reporter Zhou Qiong
From Caijing Magazine
The low, coastal lands where the Pearl River becomes an estuary and runs into the Pacific Ocean have, in the 30 years since China began market reforms, transformed into one of country’s most fiery economic engines,
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But with America and Europe in recession and other economies tottering on the brink, orders are down, and the Delta has become the site of a pronounced slowdown. Whether it can get back on track will depend greatly the success of reforms undertaken in 2009.
According to an official from Dongguan, a major industrial city in the Pearl River Delta, 63 percent of village governments couldn’t make ends meet in the first three quarters of 2008, recording a total fiscal deficit of 600 million yuan. Service sector revenue also dropped 20 percent over the same period.
The country’s economic star, Guangdong Province, has long enjoyed average GDP growth of over 14 percent. But figures from the local statistics bureau show that GDP growth only reached 10.4 percent from January to November of last year – even lower than the 10.6 percent recorded in 1997 at the height of the Asian Financial Crisis.
Worse, November 2008 also marked Guangdong’s first negative growth in the total volume of imports and exports, and this year could be even harsher, with experts predicting GDP growth in Guangdong will slow down to record lows below 8 percent.
Things just as dire in manufacturing cities such as Shenzhen and Dongguan,
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Of the workers who kept their positions, many have been cut back to eight-hour workdays and are being asked to “enjoy” two-day weekends, reducing their salaries to the minimum wage level at 770 yuan per month.
In response to declining overseas orders, many enterprises in the Pearl Delta are quietly trying to foster their domestic sales channels. But in a market already showing signs of oversupply, this is not an easy task.
Not Just the Financial Crisis
It seems that the difficulties now facing the Pearl River Delta are rooted in the U.S.-led financial crisis and rising costs of production. But some experts argue these merely served as catalysts.
Economist Wu Jinglian believes the fundamental problem in the Pearl River Delta lies in its growth model, which relies too heavily on manufacturing and at the cost of developing is service industry.
Unfortunately,
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However, Le Zheng,
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It is not so bad, Le says, for the economy to slowdown and some enterprises to close. In fact, it could be the start of a new spurt of growth. “The enterprises that survive the crisis could be the source of much-needed industrial upgrading,” said Le.
Joined by Hong Kong and Macao
Nowhere is the necessity of reform better grasped than in the Delta itself. The Guangdong government proposed a new strategy last May calling for the transfer of labor-intensive and export-oriented industries from the Pearl River Delta to surrounding areas to make room for more service industries and value-added manufacturing.
The result, as envisioned by Guangdong planners, would be an economy driven by a modern services industry and technologically advanced manufacturing.
However, support for this “double-transfer” policy evaporated as times grew tougher,
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As of January 8, 2009, the central government stepped in and unveiled its own, long-awaited development plan for the Pearl River Delta, which has been approved by an executive meeting of the State Council last December.
Under the plan, the Delta will join Hong Kong and Macao to form a trinity of "globally competitive" regions in China. The government hopes to make these areas central not just to Chinese business but to the Asia-Pacific region as a whole.
The plans suggests that, in order to achieve this economic and social transformation, Guangdong should adopt Hong Kong’s well-tested methods of talent training, service development, and economic and public management. It also must undertake reform of government institutions, making them more transparent, law-abiding, efficient and honest.
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