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Gengzhi Huang
School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

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Journal article
Published: 19 February 2021 in Sustainability
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This paper is engaged with the critical perspective that highlights the role of the state in the production of urban informality by examining the dynamics of informal land-use practices in Dongguan, China since 1978. Based on in-depth interviews and archival analysis, the relationship between informal land development, the state, and land institution change has been revealed. Our findings show that informal land development is practiced by village collectives from below in Dongguan as a response to the absence and limitation of the national land law. The local government handles the informality in a pragmatic way that serves the goal of economic development in different historical conditions by actions of encouraging, tolerating, and authorizing, suggesting that the definition of informality is not a neutral classification. It is argued that while informality represents people’s creativity in dealing with practical problems, when and to what extent it can be tolerated, formalized, and absorbed depends on the intention of the state in a specific historical context.

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Yingmin Huang; Desheng Xue; Gengzhi Huang. Economic Development, Informal Land-Use Practices and Institutional Change in Dongguan, China. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2249 .

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Yingmin Huang, Desheng Xue, Gengzhi Huang. Economic Development, Informal Land-Use Practices and Institutional Change in Dongguan, China. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):2249.

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Yingmin Huang; Desheng Xue; Gengzhi Huang. 2021. "Economic Development, Informal Land-Use Practices and Institutional Change in Dongguan, China." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 2249.

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Published: 15 March 2019 in Applied Geography
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This study explores how firm heterogeneity affects the geographic agglomeration and location choice of foreign direct investment (FDI) based on micro -evidence from 3558 new foreign manufacturing firms in the Pearl River Delta, China. Kernel density and categorical multivariate linear regression are integrated to examine FDI location choices. The empirical results confirm that firm location choices are jointly influenced by location factors and firm heterogeneity. Specifically, we find that a firm's location decisions and agglomeration behavior are determined by the interaction between firm heterogeneity and location factors. Although location factors reveal a significant impact on the entry decisions of firms, the location effects are adjusted to some extent, or even change direction, when firm heterogeneity factors are taken into consideration. Investment from different origins via different entry modes and different sectoral composition in the same host location exhibits different nature of clustering, which may be interpreted as different characteristics of interaction between home and host regions in the context of the global economy. Such insights into the heterogeneity of firms with their divergent ways in choosing their locations also echo with the previous discussion on ‘divergent capitalism’. We believe that a better understanding of the impact of firm heterogeneity on FDI location choices at the micro-level can help policymakers formulate more appropriate firm-based policies. Such policies could address the specific preferences of different types of firms.

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Yuyao Ye; Kangmin Wu; Yichun Xie; Gengzhi Huang; Changjian Wang; Jun Chen. How firm heterogeneity affects foreign direct investment location choice: Micro-evidence from new foreign manufacturing firms in the Pearl River Delta. Applied Geography 2019, 106, 11 -21.

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Yuyao Ye, Kangmin Wu, Yichun Xie, Gengzhi Huang, Changjian Wang, Jun Chen. How firm heterogeneity affects foreign direct investment location choice: Micro-evidence from new foreign manufacturing firms in the Pearl River Delta. Applied Geography. 2019; 106 ():11-21.

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Yuyao Ye; Kangmin Wu; Yichun Xie; Gengzhi Huang; Changjian Wang; Jun Chen. 2019. "How firm heterogeneity affects foreign direct investment location choice: Micro-evidence from new foreign manufacturing firms in the Pearl River Delta." Applied Geography 106, no. : 11-21.