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During the transition towards a more market-oriented economy and entrepreneurial governance,the region-building in China echoes the general trend of new regionalism and regional governance in the West,i.e.,the region-building as an institutionalizing process.This article analyzes the process of region-building in China through a case study of building Nanjing city-region.We argue that region-building is a state-led regional project in China.City-region planning has played a legitimacy-seeking role in the construction of new regions,and associated city networks are being created as a mechanism for plan implementation and regional coordination.While city-region planning and the newly-emerged regional institutions have facilitated regionalization,the governing capacity should be further consolidated so as to make the city-region more real.