Adaptive Strategies of Taiwanese Entrepreneurs in the Context of Structural Change of the Chinese Economy: the example of the Fujian Pilot Free Trade Zone

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Gunter Schubert
• Subject Area: Political Science ; Asian Studies
• Term: from 2013 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 240630578

The intended project complements the research of the first project phase by conducting two additional field studies in the Fujian Pilot Free Trade Zone (PFZ) in Mainland China. The Fujian PFZ comprises the free trade zones of Fuzhou City, Xiamen City and Pingtan County (on Pingtan Island) and shall create a cross-strait border economy, hence particularly targeting Taiwanese investment capital. The project will generate new insights in the implementation of economic reforms pursued the Chinese central government on the local Level and make an important contribution to the changing political economy of cross-strait Relations.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants