zhigao liuChinese Academy of Sciences | CAS · Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources
zhigao liu
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Introduction
After getting a Ph D degree from Human Geography Department of Frankfurt University in 2009 (Prof. Eike.W.Schamp as supervisor), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Liu joined in Chinese Academy of Science. His research interest focuses on various geographical issues of China’s (re)rise: industry cluster, innovation systems, capitalization of culture and land, geo-political and economics of spatially uneven developments, border areas and Chinese oversee investment and trading.
Additional affiliations
August 2009 - May 2015
July 2009 - May 2015
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Position
- PhD
August 2009 - present
Education
January 2008
Utrecht Uni
Field of study
- International PhD Course on Economic Geography
October 2005 - April 2009
Publications
Publications (34)
Despite increasing awareness of the need to trace the trajectory of innovation system research, so far little attention has been given to quantitative depiction of the evolution of this fast-moving research field. This paper uses CiteSpace to demonstrate visually intellectual structures and developments. The study uses citation analysis to detect a...
The article develops an analytical framework for an adaptable and evolutionary pro‐growth coalition led by local government to understand regional industrial transformation in developing China. Taking Kunshan as an example, we argue that evolutionary and adaptable coalitions were key to Kunshan's successful transformation from an agriculture county...
Especially since 2012 Chinese companies have acquired stakes as investors and
constructors of overseas ports in both high-income and emerging economies. These initiatives play an important role in the construction of a Maritime Silk Road and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Although a result of many factors, of which Chinese port investments...
The joint development by Belarus and China of the Great Stone Industrial Park (GSIP) is designed to establish a high-tech industrial zone and an eco-friendly satellite city of Minsk as a key node on the Eurasian Land Bridge linking China with the Eurasian Economic Union and the European Union. The development and organization of the GSIP are explai...
The idea of megaregions, which focuses on polycentricity, competitiveness, and integration attracts much attention in research and policy. China has used megaregions as a normative governance framework that leverages polycentric regional development for balancing economic competitiveness and spatial development. This paper explores to what extent t...
Especially since 2012 Chinese companies have acquired stakes as investors and constructors of overseas ports in both high-income and emerging economies. These initiatives play an important role in the construction of a Maritime Silk Road and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Although a result of many factors, of which Chinese port investments...
While the redevelopment of urban brownfield sites in China has received much attention, the role of political ideology in this process is usually downplayed or sidelined to a set of stylized assumptions. This paper invites giving a greater analytical focus to the evolving and nonorthodox nature of China’s politico-ideological model as a factor shap...
Since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, China's overseas
industrial parks have become an important platform for Chinese enterprises to "go global in groups", and also for promoting economic and trade cooperation between China and other countries involved in the BRI. The high- profile intergovernmental industrial parks are at...
Policy mobility research has become an important subfield in political geography.
Overseas industrial zones serve as burgeoning case areas to testify the theoretical framework of policy mobility, whose development is a key component of the Belt and Road Initiative and an expected experimental way to promote inclusive globalization. The highlight of...
The knowledge economy – defined here as production and services based on knowledge intensive activities – is widely recognized to have accelerated knowledge production and spillovers through a deepening of collaborative networks that can extend over extensive geographical distances. However, limited by data availability, the geography of China’s kn...
Although there is a need to determine the spatial accessibility of cities in China, the limitations in available data and methods hinder research in this area. The main objective of this study was to quantify the accessibility of cities in China. We developed a comprehensive analytical method to quantify spatial accessibility at a spatial resolutio...
This paper seeks to make a contribution to on-going debates about how to conceptualize the “China model” by emphasizing the top-down regional coordination strategies of China in the context of policy mobilities. The notion of policy mobilities is a hot issue through which to analyze how successful political ideas are often mobilized, imitated, adap...
Fast-paced urban growth in China has produced a specific, transient form of urban periphery, which continuously shifts outwards as the city expands. Seeing this process as a distinctive type of (sub)urbanization, this paper encapsulates it under the notion of edge-urbanization. The paper argues that edge-urbanization in China is fueled by deliberat...
The development of overseas industrial parks is a key component of the Belt and Road Initiative and an expected experimental way of promoting inclusive globalization by inventing new forms of cooperation between China and local host countries. Policy mobility, a classic theory within international political geography addressing the connection betwe...
Trade facilitation is one of the five main agendas of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Social network analysis has helped understand the complexity of trade networks, but existing studies tend to overlook the fact that not all bilateral trade relations are equally important to a country. To fill this gap in the literature, this paper focuses on...
In 2008 a new notebook manufacturing cluster was established in Chongqing in western China. By 2013 it accounted for some 25% of world output by volume. Chongqing’s ability to attract this manufacturing supply chain was driven by several factors that permitted strategic coupling: the existence of complex networks of cooperation and economies extern...
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This chapter first reviews major trends and popular research topics in the field of regional sustainable development, and then summarizes major progress in the study area in China by focusing on five sub-topics, that is, how to understand the coupling relationships between human and nature, how to delineate the carrying capacity of natural resource...
Economic geography in China’s mainland has developed in a different way from that in many other countries. On the one hand, it has been increasingly active in participating in academic dialogues and knowledge development led by Anglophone countries; on the other hand, it takes practice-based and policy-oriented research, i.e. satisfying the demands...
Existing theories of geographical specialization and trade can be classified into four groups: supply-side; demand-side; endogenous
growth and institutional models. In the recent past, economic geographers have paid little attention to earlier regional economic
analysis and concentrated for the most part on detailed examination of production struct...
Although the world has experienced rapid urbanization, rural areas have always been and are still an important research field in human geography. This paper performed a bibliometric analysis on rural geography studies based on the peer-reviewed articles concerning rural geography published in the SSCI-listed journals from 1990 to 2012. Our analysis...
To prevent environmental degradation, China’s central government launched the “Grain for Green Project” (GGP) in 1999. Since itsbeginning, the effects and influences of the GGP have been hotly debated among domestic and international scholars and policymakers. This paper is taking the County of Yanchuan in the Loess Plateau as a case study, examine...
The rapid rise of China as the largest windenergy market worldwide with several global leaders in turbine manufacturing received much attention from both scholarly and policy-analytical work. However, little attention has been given to the innovation activities of the Chinese wind industry. In our paper, we aim to address this gap, based on second-...
Most research into the formation and development of industrial clusters focuses on hightech clusters or on the upgrading of traditional industries, with little attention to long-term historical perspectives on the revival of old industries in new contexts. Although evolutionary economic geography offers a set of useful concepts for explaining the r...
Mos t research into the formation and development of industrial clusters focuses on high-tech clusters or on the upgrading of traditional industries, with little attention to long-term histori-cal perspectives on the revival of old industries in new contexts. Although evolutionary economic
geography offers a set of useful concepts for explaining th...
The formation of new industries has recently been widely studied, but little research attention has been paid to the formation of new industries in old industrial districts, especially in transitional countries such as China. Based on fieldwork and rereading historical archives, this paper uses an example of Dalian tourism cluster to contribute to...
The evolution of networks in rural industrial clusters, in particular in the context of China has been paid more attention
to in the world. Applying the theory and techniques of social network analysis (SNA), this study is with particular regard
to the business network relationships and their evolutionary dynamics of steel measuring tape manufactur...
That different industrial structure has different effect on industrial economy has becomes a consensus, but what are their effects haven't been a common view. It's still a controversy that what's the effects that the diversity of industry acts on economic growth. Frenken argued that related variety is the real independent variable that made for int...
The paper tries to construct the historical methodology for evolutionary economic geography. I elevate history to the methodological foundation of evolutionary economic geography, on which concrete research methods should be based. I explore how to evolution in economic geography by placing history in historical time and historical contexts. Accord...
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Question (1)
Dear all,
After return to China, I extended my research into (renewable) energy innovation system. Since the existing literature on National Innovation System and Global Production Network cannot offer a satisfying framework for the increasing globalizing innovation-driven world, in which innovation system is much opener than before, namely, its geographical boundary is becoming blurred and cross-boundary linkage and intangibles (the creation and diffusion of intangible assets) will be of more importance than tangibles (the production of tangible material, which is the research focus of GPN), our research group moves beyond Global Production Network approach and traditional Innovation System theory to understand the catching-up process of China’s (renewable) energy technologies. In doing so, the conception of Global Innovation System will be brought forwards. Furthermore, technology upgrading tends to be conditioned by not only previous path itself, but also and the moving environments in which it operates, for instance market demand and policies. Accordingly, technology and institution cannot be studied in isolation and co-evolutionary of technology and institution in the rise of China as a worldwide wind power manufacturing leader is my research focus.
If any question about my research or common research interest, please don’t hesitate to discuss with me by E-mail liuzhigaochina@hotmail.com
Zhigao
