Notice of Retraction: Research on Transformation of Urban Development Mode in China: From City Marketing to Endogenous Development

Under the background of global economic crisis, more and more local governments regard city marketing as a significant mode for urban development so as to strengthen urban competitiveness for more external development resources. However, since the social economic system of China is currently in a transitional period, decentralization, marketization and globalization urge the local governments to bear a strong developing impulse and marketing characteristics, which makes city marketing in China demonstrate a distinct business orientation and consequently causes many disadvantageous effects on the health and stability of urban development in China. Therefore, this paper focuses on the innovation of urban governance mechanism and, based on a comparative analysis of two urban development modes in transition in China, i.e. marketing type and endogenous type, puts forth the main characteristics and constructs theoretical frame of endogenous urban development mode.