Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China

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Table 1. Key differences between urban entrepreneurialism and state entrepreneurialism in new town development (Sources: authors’ summary based on Wu, 2017; Wu & Phelps, 2011).

	Developing new town under urban entrepreneurialism	Developing new town under state entrepreneurialism
Form of generation	Spontaneous clustering of office buildings to generate an employment subcenter	Comprehensive planning by local state, with mixed residential, industrial, office and commercial land uses
Investment actor	City as an independent actor or a firm in the market, public-private partnerships	Local states as market agents, establishing Urban Investment and Development Corporations (UIDCs) and using these as financial vehicles
Decision-maker	Urban elites and key leaders in a more localized development corporation	State officials
Goals	Mainly economic benefits	Strategic objectives including economic interests

Figure 1. Analytical framework for probing HSR new town under state entrepreneurialism (Source: the authors).

Figure 2. Alternative locations of Yongcheng HSR station (Source: the authors).

Table

Interviewee No.	Position	Organization
1	Researcher of Comprehensive Transport Institute	National Development and Reform Commission
2	Director of Railway Yard Department	China Railway
3	Chief Engineer	China Railway Fourth Survey and Design Group
4	Director of Railway Yard Department	China Railway Fourth Survey and Design Group
5	Director of Transport and Economic Department	China Railway Fourth Survey and Design Group
6	Director of Architecture Department	China Railway Fourth Survey and Design Group
7	Director of Railway Office	Yongcheng Development and Reform Commission
8	Manager of Passenger Management Branch	Yongcheng Transport Bureau
9	Director	Yongcheng Urban Planning Bureau
10	Director	Yongcheng Housing Construction Committee Construction and Management Center
11	Deputy director of Administrative new district	Yongcheng Local Government Administrative New District Branch
12	Director of Infrastructure Construction	Yongcheng Local Government Administrative New District Branch
13	Director	Yongcheng Land Resource Bureau
14	Vice Head	Yongcheng Planning and Design Institute
15	Officer	Yongcheng Planning and Design Institute
16	Officer in Technical Section	Yongcheng Planning and Design Institute
17	Vice Head	Yongcheng Land Investment and Development Company
18	Director	Yongcheng Bus Company
19	Officer	Yongcheng Traffic Police
Meeting	Officer	Meeting with Urban Planning Bureau
Workshop	Experts from Mainland China, Hong Kong and the Netherlands	Experts Workshop

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