National Integration and Institutional Coordination under "One Country, Two Systems": Research on the Institutional Innovation Mechanisms of Hong Kong and Macao’s Integration into China’s Overall National Development
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Department of Public Administration, Kookmin University, Seoul 02707, South Korea
School of Nursing and Health Management, Wuhan Donghu University, Wuhan 430212, Hubei, China
School of Nursing and Health Management, Wuhan Donghu University, Wuhan 430212, Hubei, China
The First Clinical Medical College, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China
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This article examines Hong Kong and Macao’s integration into China’s overall national development from the perspective of national integration and institutional coordination. It develops the concept of “institutional interfacing” to argue that integration is not policy insertion, administrative absorption, or institutional homogenization, but a process through which institutional differences are organized into governable coordination capacities under the coexistence of the “One Country” principle and “Two Systems” differences. Taking rule alignment in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as a key case, this article analyzes four types of institutional interfaces: legal services and professional qualifications, financial opening and regulatory coordination, public services and status-based rights, and technology innovation and platform governance. The study argues that institutional interfaces can transform the institutional advantages of Hong Kong and Macao into national governance capacity, while also generating institutional friction when responsibilities are unclear, rules are unstable, risk control is insufficient, or public participation remains limited.
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