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

This project continues Prof. Schubert’s earlier research on the evolution of a cross-strait political economy and a changing environment for Taiwan’s mainland-based entrepreneurs. It focuses on the Fujian Pilot Free Trade Zone (PFTZ), which was established in 2015 to serve two purposes: contributing to a new drive for market-unifying economic reforms in China and attracting Taiwanese investment and young entrepreneurs. Hence, the project will generate insights in the current effort of China’s central government to bring new economic reforms and a refurbished growth model on the one hand and to shed light on the politically-driven dynamics of cross-strait economic relations on the other. The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) between 2016-2018 and has continued with a new project on China’s new preference policies towards Taiwan (see below).

(Project duration: October 2016 – September 2019)