区域协同发展背景下边缘城市的空间治理与融入策略——以广东省中山市为例

中国推进区域协同发展战略的核心要点在于统筹各区域当中边缘城市的发展，以实现全区域共同富裕。与此同时，在知识经济的背景下，高新技术产业开发区已成为各城市参与区域分工的重要场域空间。因此，随着区域协同发展战略的不断深化，边缘城市如何依托高新区带动全市融入区域一体化进程，已成为一个值得关注的话题。以广东省中山市为例，使用定性研究方法探究边缘城市通过一定的空间治理和融入策略来服务构建区域新发展格局的具体过程。研究发现：① 中山市积极构建高新区的“超地方性”，强调空间治理的目标是服务区域协同发展；② 推动多个城市职能尺度上移是边缘城市整体融入区域的重要策略，是中山市避免被继续边缘化的有效途径。

Spatial Governance and Integration Strategies of Periphery Cities Under the Regional Collaborative Development: A Case Study of Zhongshan in Guangdong Province

The regional coordinated development strategy is the core strategy of China in the 21st century which emphasizes the collaborative development between core cities and periphery cities in each region to realize the shared prosperity of the whole region. At the same time, under the background of the knowledge economy, High-Tech Industrial Development Zones (HTIDZs) has provided a fundamental space for cities to participate in the regional labor division. With the advancement of the regional coordinated development strategy, it has become a compelling topic how the periphery cities can rely on HTIDZs to drive the whole city into the process of regional integration. Taking Zhongshan as an example, this paper drew on qualitative methods including literature analysis, participatory observation, and in-depth interviews to examine the specific process by which periphery cities are integrated into the new regional development pattern through spatial governance and integration strategies. To this end, over the period of November 2020 to May 2021, thirty-three policy documents, seven-month participatory observation, and seven interviews were collected and analyzed to understand how Zhongshan utilizes Zhongshan Torch High-Tech Industrial Development Zone to integrate into the synergetic development of the Greater Bay Area. Findings suggested that: 1) Zhongshan constructs the “hyper-local” HTIDZs and emphasizes that the goal of spatial governance is to serve regional coordinated development. 2) Upgrading the scale of urban service function is an essential strategy for periphery cities to integrate into the region and an effective way for Zhongshan to avoid being marginalized. The paper contributes to the exploration of the framework of spatial governance of periphery cities under the background of socialism with distinct Chinese characteristics, especially the exploration of the role of HTIDZs in periphery cities in bridging the core-periphery structure in the context of modern China. It will also help deepen the market-oriented reform in China and improve the explanatory power of human geography in urban development issues.