ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the varying extent to which that general logic of entrepreneurial urban growth is applied in eastern, middle and western regions of China, which in turn gave rise to the uneven spatial distribution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The rapid growth of urban real estate and manufacturing sectors achieved on the basis of such entrepreneurialism land use strategies, however, did not have uniform representations across all places in China, a country characterized by considerable regional disparities. The increasingly stronger local state entrepreneurialism in hinterland China can also be observed through the dynamics of land used for manufacturing production. The spatial-economic outcome of this transformation was the more efficient urban land use in the east than that in the hinterland region. Furthermore, the growth dynamics of real estate development and manufacturing production not only generated immediate urban physical and economic output but also reinforced each other.
