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Sichuan: Driving Capitalist Development Westward* Sichuan: Driving Capitalist Development Westward* Christopher A. McNally ABSTRACT The central government’s Open Up the West campaign has failed to reach one of its primary objectives in Sichuan: to diminish the large developmental gap between poor and affluent regions. In fact, most investment flows, policy initiatives and infrastructure projects initiated under the campaign concentrate on localities in or adjacent to the Sichuan basin, therefore widening the gap between Sichuan’s poor western mountain regions and affluent basin cities. Notwithstanding this deficiency, significant effects have resulted from the campaign’s initiation. First, the campaign is facilitating central government approval for large-scale environmen- tal protection and infrastructure projects, thereby quickening the national integration of Sichuan’s economy and society. Secondly, it is prodding government and business leaders to ameliorate the investment climate and regulatory structure. As a result of these two effects, the campaign is accelerating processes of economic reform, urbanization and globalization already under way. It is putting in place the infrastruc- ture for accelerated capital accumulation, thus extending capitalist development from China’s seaboard towards the interior. Over the past 25 years the development of a market economy and growing international openness generated rising income inequalities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).1 In particular, the developmental gaps between the eastern seaboard and interior western provinces have become politically prominent. However, inequalities within provinces are considerable as well. Inside Sichuan province the large developmental gaps that exist between eastern and western regions mirror the regional inequalities in China as a whole. Geographically, Sichuan province is split into two distinct regions. In the east lies the large Sichuan basin, covering about 40 per cent of Sichuan’s total land area of 48,500 square kilometres.2 Although several very poor regions lie in the basin’s north-east, especially the areas along the Daba Mountains, most other regions of the basin are more prosperous and economically advanced than Sichuan’s western mountain region, the * Research for this article benefited from the generous support of the East-West Center and was undertaken in Sichuan during 2002. Assistance received from the faculty of the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, especially from Liu Shiqing, Guo Hong, Hu Guangwei and Fu Shi, is gratefully acknowledged. Neither they nor any of those interviewed in connection with this project are responsible for any of the views or comments expressed in this article. 1. See the contributions in Mary-Francoise Renard (ed.), China and its Regions – Economic Growth and Reform in Chinese Provinces (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002); as well as Wang Shougang and Hu Angang, The Political Economy of Uneven Development: The Case of China (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999). 2. Yang Wenhua, Sichuan yu Zhongguo xibu kaifa (Sichuan and the Opening of China’s West) (Chengdu: Sichuan renmin chubanshe, 2000), pp. 362–63. The China Quarterly, 2004 Driving Capitalist Development Westward 427 main domicile of the province’s minority nationalities.3 For instance, the average per capita GDP in Chengdu city was 14,618 yuan in 2001. In comparison, the average per capita GDP in the three western mountain districts of Aba, Ganzi and Liangshan in that year was 4,802 yuan, 3,084 yuan and 3,953 yuan respectively.4 Sichuan’s physical features thus express to a considerable extent the province’s economic and social disparities. Basin areas range in altitude from about 500 to 1,000 metres above sea level and are characterized by hills and low mountains interspersed with several plains.5 Fertile ground, plentiful water resources, a subtropical climate and several waves of migration have over the centuries made the basin one of China’s most abundant and productive agricultural areas. As a result, the Sichuan basin has become widely known as “heaven’s storehouse” in China. Among basin areas, the Chengdu plain in the basin’s north-west contains some of the richest and best irrigated agricultural lands. Even more importantly, Chengdu, the provincial capital, sits in the midst of the plain. Chengdu’s economic pre-eminence within Sichuan received a strong boost after the city of Chongqing was split from Sichuan and made a municipality directly under the central government in 1997. Because of Chongqing’s geographical position along the upper reaches of the Chang [Yangtze] River, it constituted the province’s traditional centre of com- merce and heavy industry. A long-standing rivalry pitted Chengdu’s political and cultural might against Chongqing’s economic prowess. The formation of Chongqing municipality has put an end to this intra-provin- cial rivalry and focused Sichuan’s attention more closely on Chengdu. The separation also eased the Sichuan provincial government’s burden of managing its large population and area. In addition to the city of Chongqing, the new Chongqing municipality contains most of what formerly was Sichuan’s poor and heavily populated south-eastern corner. In contrast to the rich basin areas, the province’s large western expanse is covered by rugged mountains, which form the easternmost part of the Himalayas.6 High altitudes characterize this region with some townships at 3,000 metres above sea level and Sichuan’s highest peak, Gongga Mountain, reaching 7,556 metres above sea level. Animal husbandry and forest resources form the natural economic base of these areas, most of which are geographically isolated, populated by ethnic minorities and characterized by poverty. 3. The per capita average income in the poor prefecture of Bazhong in Sichuan’s north-east stood at 2,466 yuan in 2001, lower than the per capita incomes in the western mountain regions. Figure calculated from Lingdao ganbu jingji gongzuo shouce (Leading Cadre’s Economic Handbook) (Chengdu: Zhonggong Sichuan shengwei bangongting and Sichuan sheng tongjiju, 2002), p. 117. 4. Figures from ibid.p.117. 5. For more detailed data on the physical characteristics of Sichuan see Sichuan nianjian 2000 (Sichuan Yearbook 2000) (Chengdu: Sichuan nianjian chubanshe, 2000), pp. 10–13 and 20–21. 6. The western half of Sichuan was not incorporated into the province until 1955. Mountainous regions mainly populated by ethnic minority peoples, especially the Kham Tibetans, in the west were joined with communities populated predominantly by Han Chinese in the low-lying Sichuan basin in the east. 428 The China Quarterly Map: 1: Sichuan Province Driving Capitalist Development Westward 429 Tucked away in Sichuan’s south-western corner lies an exception to the provincial east–west income differential, the city of Panzhihua. Although the city’s landscape is mountainous, rich endowments of min- ing resources and heavy state investments since the 1960s have trans- formed it into a heavy industrial base. The per capita GDP of Panzhihua stood at 11,941 yuan in 2001, second only to Chengdu in Sichuan province.7 Since Sichuan’s internal regional disparities mirror China’s east–west gap quite closely, the province can serve as a fruitful setting to analyse the intents and consequences of the central government’s Open Up the West campaign. However, analysis is complicated since so far policy statements pertaining to the campaign have espoused different emphases. Moreover, the exact effects of the campaign remain difficult to discern because its objectives and execution interact with other recent policy initiatives. For instance, the Three Gorges Project, the splitting of Chongqing municipality from Sichuan province and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) are all influencing the development prospects of Sichuan in combination with initiatives sponsored directly by the campaign. Despite these inherent difficulties in analysing the campaign’s effects, several consequences have resulted from its initiation in Sichuan. First, the campaign has facilitated central government approval of large-scale infrastructure and environmental protection projects. As a result, Sichuan’s physical infrastructure is developing rapidly, quickening the national integration of the province’s economy and society. In addition, the campaign has raised Sichuan’s political stature. The province is the largest in China’s west in terms of population and economic output. With the campaign’s emphasis on ecological protection, Sichuan has also been able to leverage its central location along the upper reaches of the Chang River. Finally, the campaign to Open Up the West in combination with China’s WTO entry are raising the awareness among Sichuan’s govern- ment and business leaders of the province’s national and international competitive position. Greater efforts to improve Sichuan’s investment climate and regulatory structure are the result of this psychological change. In the end, the Open Up the West campaign is pushing the structural transformations that are already gripping coastal provinces westward. The infrastructure for accelerated capital accumulation is being put in place, including political and economic support by the state for market forces, property rights and private holders of capital. The Open Up the West campaign thus forms part of a dynamic that is extending capitalist development from China’s seaboard towards the interior.8 Notwithstanding these tangible and intangible effects, the campaign has so far failed to reach one of its supposed
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