Distinctive transnational city-to-city partnerships, decentralization, and local governance of China as a Global East Country

• Jili Xu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0838-294X

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• Huaikuan Liu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: liuhuaik@mail2.sysu.edu.cn

  Affiliation Dongguan Urban Planning and Design Institute, Dongguan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9960-3319

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• Gengzhi Huang

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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