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Hong Kong Pearl River Delta FDI and Industrial Restructuring Findings from previous study “Globalization and the dominance of large cities in contemporary China”, (2003), Cities, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 265-278. • The demographic and economic development of the large cities are self- driven, and not because of the growth of small or medium sized cities into large cities. • The globalization process, especially the effects from the globalization of business locations and the globalization of production, strengthens the growth of large cities in China. • The globalization process also brought about the population, industrial and capital agglomeration in large cities, resulting from the ability of large cities to accumulate people, capital and investments under the effects of “globalization”. Such agglomeration is caused by “urbanization economies”, “competitive advantage”, and “increasing returns”. • Both “urbanization economies” and “increasing returns” strengthen the “competitive advantage” of large cities, eventually, the effects from these factors shall resulted in the agglomeration of people, firms and capital. Hypotheses • To examine the new industrial space of Hong Kong manufacturing firms and its relationship with Hong Kong. It is argued that a new industrial space of Hong Kong manufacturing firms is emerging relying on this new wave of relocation and in contrast to the last round of relocation of Hong Kong manufacturing firms. • The new round of relocation is more complicated, which not only includes the diverse relocation strategies adopted by Hong Kong manufacturing firms according to their necessities but also in association with the policies of Guangdong provincial government and local governments in the PRD. • The traditional PRD mod