Abstract
Under the new background of territorial spatial planning in China, most cities are faced with the constraint of urban regeneration or limited land resources, however, local development demand of "planning for growth" is difficult to resolve through the traditional incremental planning, and most local governments expect to achieve growth by planning and constructing specific industrial platforms in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Based on semi-structured interview information and the experience as the participants in planning, this paper takes some local industrial platforms in the Greater Bay Area as a case to analyze its characteristics and trends, discuss the impact of the "jumping scale" and "scale of competition" of industrial platforms on urban development in the new era. The result shows that: 1) the relevant industrial platforms have been playing a top role and replaced the traditional urban system planning completely in the territorial spatial planning of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. More spatial selectivity and Increased competition for new construction land resources lead to accelerating the process of regional rescaling in China. 2) In the new era of urban regeneration, the stickiness of industrial clusters has intensified the space bidding by enterprise, and in the triangular relationship of "company-government", the "hegemony role” of company is weakening with the strengthening role of city government. Prefectural and upper-level governments have main position in the process of rescaling, while the role of district and county governments have diminished and township governments have almost disappeared. 3) On the basis of inter-temporal connection, "scale competition" is not just a local spatial planning issue. The crisis of unequal development with "depoliticized" and spatial governance needs to be integrated into a broader framework of urban politics and governance to solve.
