跨国公司在开发区的投资模式及区域影响

跨国公司主导的全球化力量是影响地区发展的重要因素。本研究以跨国公司在我国开发区的投资为例,分析了跨国公司全球生产体系与地方生产体系链接的过程与方式。文中将其概括为滚动式、结盟式、跟随式等三种模式。不同的投资模式对地区经济发展的影响程度不同。总体而言,跨国公司通过在中国开发区的投资强化了其全球生产网络,但与地方生产体系的联系有待于强化。这要求地方在推动开发区发展的同时,要积极发展自己富有活力的生产体系,在更高层次上实现与跨国公司网络的对接。

Investment patterns of MNCs in development areas of China and their impacts on regional development

Globalization force dominated by Multinational Corporations (MNCs) has increasingly been an important factor influencing regional development. In the last two decades, as a result of increasing globalization and fast technological advances, dynamics behind spatial organization of economic activities have been changing very rapidly and hence spatial arrangements of economic activities become more and more complicated. To actively participate in globalization via attracting foreign direct investment and technological transfers, the Chinese government has established various kinds of development areas since the opening up and reform in the late 1970s and provided tax holidays to foreign investors in the development areas as well as domestic investors in the high-tech sectors. By employing the cases of MNCs' investment in the development areas of China, local ties of global production networks (GPN) are analyzed and three patterns, namely, gradual pattern, embedded pattern and following pattern, are put forward. It indicates that the GPN of MNCs have been strengthened through their investments in the development areas of China. Accordingly, the development areas of China can be regarded as the local nodes of GPN. However, in the interest of local development, connections between GPN and local production networks have not been well developed, which should be gained more concern by local governments and administrators.