Abstract:

The suburbanization is the necessary stage of city development,and the institutions transition and economics transition is the deepseated background of suburbanization in China.The triple process of decentralization,marketization,and globalization has fundamentally restructured the orthodox Chinese socialist state,and introduced intense competitive environment.China’s local government becomes one of the most competitive governments in the world. In this condition,urban space has now become a strategic resource,a citymanaging tool and a means of expressing local government achievements.The paper took Nanjing as a demonstration and focused on the suburbanization of the manufacturing industry.Firstly,the spatial pattern of the manufacturing industry aggregation and proliferation and the suburbanization extent in Nanjing were analyzed.Then a theoretical framework of the manufacturing industry suburbanization was established. Finally,a sort of factors was identified using the Poisson model.The study found that the suburbanization had taken place from the end of 1990,and some periurban areas were the main areas where the enterprises reagglomerate.The results also validate the hypothesis that government planning and management aiming at optimizing urban spatial structure,marketizatkion of land, improvement of the means of transportation in the suburban and the establishment of the development zone are the important driving forces.

Key words: transition period/suburbanization/manufacturing industry/ location choice/ Nanjing City