TY - JOUR SP - 183 VL - 3 N1 - © The Author(s) 2024. his article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). A1 - Zhang, Fangzhu A1 - Wu, Fulong JF - Transaction on Planning and Urban Research KW - Environmental governance KW - green infrastructure KW - ecological civilisation KW - state entrepreneurialism KW - Chengdu AV - public Y1 - 2024/09// TI - Green state entrepreneurialism: Building the park-city in Chengdu, China EP - 201 UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223241253231 ID - discovery10191732 N2 - This paper uses the perspective of state entrepreneurialism to explore China?s environmental governance. The perspective illustrates how the Chinese state maintains its centrality, combining environmentalism and developmentalism while deploying flexible market development tools. This paper examines the Chengdu park-city model, an exemplar President Xi Jinping endorsed and widely emulated in China. The model combines the development of industrial and ecological spaces. It aims to deliver the central government?s vision for ecological civilisation and the local government?s economic development strategy. The development tools include land consolidation, financial mobilisation and an economic strategy that attempts to introduce ?urban scenes? into ecological spaces. This ecologically oriented development approach is more state-centred, contrasting with the neoliberal green growth machine. IS - 3 ER -