Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China - Hardcover

Enright, Michael J.; Scott, Edith; Chang, Ka-mun

9780470821732: Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470821736 ISBN 13: 9780470821732

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

"The Pearl River Delta has played a vital role in China's remarkable economic growth in the last 25 years. This book will help the reader understand the dynamics of the region, its contributors to China's development, and its outlook to the future."
--Sir John Bond
Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc.

"Michael Enright and Edith Scott, the top specialists on the Hong Kong economy, have here traced the big new development, the intimate linkages between Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta area to create a dynamism and vitality that rivals that of Shanghai. Thorough, informative, analytic."
--Ezra Vogel
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
Harvard University Asia Center

"Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China is a compelling and rigorous insight on the region that led China's economic miracle and continues today as a pivotal piece in the global economic jigsaw."
--Alasdair Morrison
Chairman and CEO, Asia
Morgan Stanley

"For those of us who live in this region, this book captures for the first time the full magnitude and complexity of the strength that has emerged from our unique interactions. For those living elsewhere, it makes a compelling case for why the Greater Pearl River Delta region should be in the forefront of their own understanding of an emerging China."
--Dr Victor K Fung
Chairman, The Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council
Chairman, The Li & Fung Group

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From the Inside Flap:

China's economic rise has captured the world's imagination. At the forefront has been the Greater Pearl River Delta, a region consisting of Hong Kong, Macao, and part of Guangdong Province, whose unique and complex complementarities have created a regional powerhouse of global importance. How did the Greater Pearl River Delta region become home to one of the world's leading manufacturing centers and one of the world's leading business cities? Why is the Greater Pearl River Delta region likely to remain in the vanguard of China's economic emergence? What opportunities and challenges does the region present for companies and economies around the world? Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China answers these questions and provides unique insights into one of the world's most dynamic regional economies.

The authors show how the Greater Pearl River Delta region has benefited from China's economic opening by combining the international orientation, business experience, and financial muscle of Hong Kong and Macao with the land, labor, and skills of the Chinese Mainland. They show how this combination has created an increasing number of world beating industries that have attracted companies and business people from all around the globe. They show how China's accession into the WTO strengthens the region's position in the national and international economies. Finally, they show how the region's trajectory will lead it to even greater prominence in the future. Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China sets forth why business people, policy makers, and analysts from around the world need to understand this most intricate and dynamic of regions.

About the Author:

Michael J. Enright, a leading expert on competitiveness, regional economic development, and international business strategy, is Sun Hung Kai Professor and Director of the Asia-Pacific Competitiveness Program at the University of Hong Kong. He has directed major reviews of the competitiveness of more than 20 economies on five continents and has co-authored books or monographs on the competitiveness of Hong Kong, New Zealand, Switzerland, Venezuela, and Canada. He has advised numerous multilateral organizations, governments, and firms, and has appeared in more than 30 countries as an invited speaker.

Edith E. Scott is Managing Director of Enright, Scott & Associates Ltd., a strategy consulting firm based in Hong Kong. She advises governments and corporations on competitiveness, regional development, and international investment in Greater China and the Asia-Pacific. Ms. Scott has authored several publications on competitiveness and business conditions in Greater China and has co-authored The Hong Kong Advantage (1997) and Venezuela: The Challenge of Competitiveness (1996).

Ka-mun Chang is the Managing Director of Li & Fung Research Centre. Mr Chang is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a council member of the Chinese Society of Macroeconomics, State Development Reform Commission. He also is a staff officer of the Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council. He is the author of China 1949-1997, an Economic and Political analysis (1997), and co-author of Li & Fung: the Orchestrator of Global Supply Chain Management (2003).

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