Accepted the idea of globalization and localization or not, discussions of both have been continuing for a long time. Truthfully, the concept of globalization has deeply impacted upon the world and influenced everyone’s daily life on earth. As the wave of globalization goes on, we can find many contemporary governments in the world starting to select and adopt many policies of localization pattern to match with globalization development. Usually individual governments can combine the strength of market with civil society to expand people’s participation in public affairs and to maintain government’s decision-making power. Under the interaction of globalization and localization, the impact of interactive power affects the structure of traditional state-centered governance continuously. Lots of evidences show that the rising regionalism challenge central government making it to rely on market and civil society more and more. This dissertation selected Taizhou, Zhejiang province in China as a case study. As far as the methodology is concerned, in depth interviews with local officials and individual scholars are conducted and historical institutional approach and qualitative methods are adopted. As exploration conducted in field study for the research, conclusion runs as follows: after the devolution policy from CPC Central Committee effective, Taizhou indeed has been localized with governance energy to be released out, featuring functional transformation from great governance to local government. Such new governance framework unexpectedly matches with globalization’s thinking and operative norm.
