OECD Territorial Reviews: Trans-border Urban Co-operation in the Pan Yellow Sea Region, 2009
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However, the PYSR has yet not fully utilised its assets nor reached its potential for growth. Further economic integration has been hindered by excessive competition and inadequate co-operation within the region. The regional transportation system requires structural changes to be integrated, especially in the container transportation market. Deepening the region’s social and cultural network remains a challenge. And environmental concerns are increasingly attracting attention. This report analyses these factors and assesses a wide range of policies to improve the PYSR’s competitiveness and integration.
In particular, the report examines the PYSR’s trans-border governance system, which has emerged since the 1990s as a key regional policy agenda. The harmonisation of authorities within the region is a prerequisite to achieving economic success and addressing the PYSR’s diverse challenges. A comparative analysis of trans-border cooperation in OECD countries in Europe and North America is also included in an annex. This report will be of special interest to policy makers, researchers, NGOs and others active in trans-border development or Asian economic development.
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Trends in trans-border co-operation in the Pan Yellow Sea Region
Unlike other locally-driven sub-national economic blocs in East Asia – such as the Southern China Growth Triangle (SCG T) and SI JORI – the Pan Yellow Sea Region (PYSR ), spanning the coastal areas of the Yellow Sea in Northeast Asia, has a relatively short history. Its spontaneous process of economic integration only began in the early 1990s, when the Chinese economy opened up and began functioning as the world’s factory. In this short period, however, the PYSR has made significant progress in pursuing trans-border economic exchange. Intra-regional trade amongst the three PYSR countries (hereafter, China, Japan and Korea) has exploded, almost doubling from 12.7% of total trade volume of all three countries in 1990, to 23.9% in 2005. In terms of intra-regional investment, as of 2006, Korea and Japan were the world’s largest and second largest providers of foreign direct investment (FDI ) to China respectively, excluding Hong Kong. In addition, these three countries have jointly forged an extensive and dense production network to become a leading global manufacturing base. In 2007, the three countries’ global share in the output of their key industries of shipbuilding, electronics and automobiles was 85.2%, 41.6% and 33.6% respectively (see Section 2.1 for more).
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