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Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 70 International Conference on Economy, Management and Entrepreneurship（ICOEME 2018) Research on the Path of Deep Fusion and Integration Development of Wuhan and Ezhou Lijiang Zhao Chengxiu Teng School of Public Administration School of Public Administration Zhongnan University of Economics and Law Zhongnan University of Economics and Law Wuhan, China 430073 Wuhan, China 430073 Abstract—The integration development of Wuhan and urban integration of Wuhan and Hubei, rely on and Ezhou is a strategic task in Hubei Province. It is of great undertake Wuhan. Ezhou City takes the initiative to revise significance to enhance the primacy of provincial capital, form the overall urban and rural plan. Ezhou’s transportation a new pattern of productivity allocation, drive the development infrastructure is connected to the traffic artery of Wuhan in of provincial economy and upgrade the competitiveness of an all-around and three-dimensional way. At present, there provincial-level administrative regions. This paper discusses are 3 interconnected expressways including Shanghai- the path of deep integration development of Wuhan and Ezhou Chengdu expressway, Wuhan-Ezhou expressway and from the aspects of history, geography, politics and economy, Wugang expressway. In terms of market access, Wuhan East and puts forward some suggestions on relevant management Lake Development Zone and Ezhou Gedian Development principles and policies. Zone try out market access cooperation, and enterprises Keywords—urban regional cooperation; integration registered in Ezhou can be named with “Wuhan”. development; path III. THE SPACE FOR IMPROVEMENT IN THE INTEGRATION I. INTRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT OF WUHAN AND EZHOU Exploring the path of leapfrog development in inland The degree of integration development of Wuhan and areas is a common issue for the vast areas (that is to say, 500 Ezhou is lower than that of central urban area of Wuhan, and kilometers from the coastline) of China’s hinterland. At the suburban area of Wuhan including Jiangxia, Huangqi, important time when China’s economic development enters a Xinzhou and Caidian. The two cities still independently new normal and we implement the Outline of the develop under the leadership of their respective Development Plan for the Yangtze River Economic Belt, as administrative centers, but their cooperation has externalities, the national first-class administrative region, the government and there are huge transaction costs and repeated of Hubei province has responsibilities to formulate consideration of gains and losses in operation. There is a corresponding policies, integrate resources and allocate problem of insufficient integration in transportation, power in the existing space. The consensus on the telecommunications, industrial gradient development, development pattern of “one provincial center of Wuhan and ecological protection, and public services. Wuhan’s two provincial sub-centers of Xiangyang and Yichang” that development stops at the intersection of Wuhan and Ezhou in has been formed in Hubei province will be promoted and many aspects. realized by new measures under the new era conditions. There is room for adjustment in the integration of Wuhan Wuhan City, the provincial capital, is facing new and Ezhou in the system and mechanism. There are natural opportunities and challenges. As a provincial government difficulties in the cooperation on the system between the two that mainly performs macro management functions, how independent cities of Wuhan and Ezhou. Each has its own does it provide new geographical space and policy support inconvenience and lacks substantive administrative for the development of leading cities in Hubei Province? communication channels. The long-term mechanism has not been established, and it still stays in the stage of “one case II. SOME ACHIEVEMENTS HAVE MADE IN THE for one meeting”. There are many contradictions between INTEGRATION DEVELOPMENT OF WUHAN AND EZHOU local interests formed under the current administrative In the process of implementing the “8+1” city circle system and regional economic integration, and there still strategy, the integration process of Wuhan and Ezhou has exists discordance and excessive competition in industrial been greatly promoted. Wuhan and Ezhou are linked by planning and investment attraction. Social undertakings mountains and rivers, and their economy is integrated and cannot be deeply integrated, and the development personnel relationship is close. They are closer than the other achievements of metropolises have not yet benefited the seven cities in the same urban circle. Ezhou City puts surrounding cities. Therefore, we have to think about this forward the work goals and ideas which are to take the lead issue from the provincial-level government. in integrating into the Wuhan metropolitan area, speed up the Copyright © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). 126 Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 70 The ecological protection cooperation governance garment, and food processing and manufacturing industries relationship of Liangzi Lake is fragile. Liangzi Lake is the exist in all small and medium-sized cities, and their second largest lake in Hubei province and the second water competitiveness far exceeds the complementarity. Local source site in Wuhan city. In the process of accelerating governments often intercept the beneficial links in the market urbanization in Wuhan city, with the expansion of people’s chain by administrative means to protect the weak activity radius, Liangzi Lake has gradually changed from a competitive industries and defend the vested interests of the suburb lake to an urban lake. Its ecological value is already local. Therefore, market segmentation caused by the division higher than the production value, while the original of interests among localities has weakened the common management system has not changed, and the man-made interest base between local governments and reduced the ecological risk is increasing. The cooperative governance trust between them, so that the real cooperation is difficult to relationship is fragile, and overall management and achieve and the overall economic development of the Wuhan protection are not effective enough, and the protection of metropolitan area to the province is restricted. ecological balance has not yet been put first. There are barriers in the transportation and B. Mainland Provincial Capitals Are Competitive Areas telecommunications markets in Wuhan and Ezhou. The Together with Coastal Regions subway that Ezhou people are looking forward to has not The development gap between the coastal areas and the been connected to Ezhou, and the target of sharing the area central and western regions is expanding. The inland code 027 by the fixed telephone has not been realized. provinces and cities are exploring the leap-forward development path, hoping to blaze a trail in the development of the economy. Sichuan, Henan, Hunan, Anhui, Shaanxi IV. ADMINISTRATIVE REGION ECONOMY DOMINATES and other provinces have raised the primacy ratio of THE PROCESS AND LEVEL OF PROVINCIAL AND MUNICIPAL provincial capital, expanded development space, gathered ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT energy and formed a new pattern of productivity allocation, China is a big country with unbalanced economic in order to promote the economic development of the whole development, and the national unified market has not yet province and improve the competitiveness of provincial finally formed. Administrative region is not only a region for administrative regions. Sichuan province manages Jianyang the state to carry out government affairs, but also a basic unit on behalf of Chengdu City, and Anhui province abolishes the for allocating productive forces to promote economic prefecture-level city of Chaohu and makes Hefei City bigger development. Various local governments are important and and stronger, and Hunan province creates Changsha- active economic agents controlling a large amount of social Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban circle, and they all follow the train resources, as well as the main enablers of economic of thought to drive the rapid development of provincial development in administrative regions. economy. A. Administrative Region Economy Dominates the Trend of In 2017, Hubei province ranked seventh in terms of GDP among 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities China’s Economic Development. directly under the central government (excluding Hong Kong, At present, the actual situation is that the boundaries of Macao and Taiwan). Apart from the traditional economically administrative regions are hard to cross, and the integrated strong provinces, including Guangdong, Jiangsu and and regional development strategies are virtual. Although Shandong, the ranking of other provinces may change at any Hubei province has advantaged basic conditions, the pace of time. The key to maintaining the ranking is which province economic development is slower than that of coastal areas. has long-term and lasting institutional innovation. Hubei Based on the principle of administrative organization province steps up efforts to promote the integration of efficiency, there is always a dominant power center existing Wuhan metropolitan area, especially starting from Wuhan in any government. In general, a government is controlled by
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