近來新區域主義這個名詞被逐漸地使用來說明發生在城市區域中的區域治理內容,並且藉由它的焦點放置在制度性與結構性的政府改革面向上,做為區別它與過去強調政府體制改革的潮流有所不同。藉由新區域主義所提供的治理模式分析,本研究定義近年來發生在中國長江三角洲的區域治理模式分別為:1.區域規劃、2.都市圈規劃、3.行政區劃的調整、4.空間領域組織與再組織化、5.功能性組織和6.部門協商與協議等六個不同的策略模式。儘管這些模式在長江三角洲城市區域內產生了一定的作用與影響,但不同於西方國家的,這些模式的最大特色則在於多層級政府所扮演的角色,並非強調公私合夥關係的建立與治理,而統理這個行為的「國家政府」,則代表了中國區域治理中所不可或缺、並且是主導性的角色。
Recently, the term New Regionalism is increasingly used to define regional governance in metropolitan areas and differentiate it from the metropolitan government reform movement of the 1960s and 1970s with its focus on structural government reform. With a suggestion of strategies framework from new regionalist, six modes of regional governance, now emerging in the City-region of Yangtze River Delta, was introduced, such as:(1)regional planning; (2) the planning of metropolitan coordinating region; (3) the adjustment of administration; (4)spatial organization and re-organized; (5) service of functional government; and (6) public service agreement or contract。Importantly, through those strategies of regional governance exert influence and function in the City-region of Yangtze River Delta, this paper found it is different with the empirical researches of west advanced country that the multi-level government play a role in regional governance of Yangtze River Delta, and most all, nation-state is a dominating and leading role of dealing with the agenda of regional governance in China, while a public-private partnership as a governance element was not emphasized in those strategies.