1st Edition
Explaining Railway Reform in China A Train of Property Rights Re-arrangements
By Linda Tjia Yin-nor
Copyright 2016
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
32 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
258 Pages
32 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Having been state-owned for decades, the railway reform in China confused many people, particularly in terms of its ownership and property rights arrangements. Western literature always prescribes that the best model for railway reform is privatization. China’s leadership has also enunciated the state’s determination to re-arrange property rights and rejuvenate corporate governance. But is... Read more
1. Property Rights, Ownership Changes and the Puzzles 2. The Best Railway Reform Model 3. China’s Railway Reform in Context 4. [De]centralization Policies 5. Great-Leap-Forward Approach of Railway Reform 6. The Railway’s Transport Sub-sector: Top down Re-centralization and Local Cadres’ Survival Strategies 7. The Railway’s Construction Sub-sector: Emergence of Multi-layered State-owned Enterprise Group 8. Telecommunications Sub-sector 9. Conclusions
Biography
Linda Tjia Yin-nor teaches at the Department of Geography of the University of Hong Kong. She is affiliated with the Center for Third Sector Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
