Abstract:
Objective: As a private enterprise, Kaidar Group Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen has obtained the opportunity to collaborate, develop, and profit from the stateowned project Xintang Station. It is necessary to analyze the flexibility and possibilities of cooperation between stateowned transportation projects and private enterprises. Method: The construction process of micropowers theory framework is introduced. Taking the Guangzhou Xintang StationCadre International TOD Centre as example, from Michel Foucault′s perspective of micropowers, and using Henri Lefebvre′s space production theory, the spatial production process of the study case and the internal mechanisms influenced by macro and micropowers are analyzed. Result & Conclusion: The project does not adopt the typical PPP (publicprivate partnership) model. The successful implementation of this study case is closely related to the initial autonomous cooperation between the private enterprise and the power entity of village collective, as well as the subsequent reactions of another power entity composed of government departments and rail transit companies. It is a result of macropower constraints, micropower interplay, and balance of interests among all parties with the two power entities and multiple stakeholders. The operation of micropowers still works within the framework of macropowers, with the macropowers such as urbanrural dualistic structure and land regulations guiding the ultimate direction of micropowers interplay. However, the macropowers cannot fully penetrate into the operation of micropowers, and there exists a certain space of freedom for micropowers operation among various power entities.