eprintid: 10191732 rev_number: 14 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/17/32 datestamp: 2024-05-10 13:58:45 lastmod: 2024-10-08 14:00:47 status_changed: 2024-05-10 13:58:45 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Zhang, Fangzhu creators_name: Wu, Fulong title: Green state entrepreneurialism: Building the park-city in Chengdu, China ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F39 keywords: Environmental governance, green infrastructure, ecological civilisation, state entrepreneurialism, Chengdu note: © 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/). abstract: 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. date: 2024-09 date_type: published official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223241253231 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2272979 doi: 10.1177/27541223241253231 lyricists_name: Wu, Fulong lyricists_id: FWUXX57 actors_name: Wu, Fulong actors_id: FWUXX57 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: 832845 [European Research Council] full_text_status: public publication: Transaction on Planning and Urban Research volume: 3 number: 3 pagerange: 183-201 citation: Zhang, Fangzhu; Wu, Fulong; (2024) Green state entrepreneurialism: Building the park-city in Chengdu, China. Transaction on Planning and Urban Research , 3 (3) pp. 183-201. 10.1177/27541223241253231 <https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223241253231>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191732/9/Zhang_Green%20state%20entrepreneurialism_VoR.pdf