Schlussfolgerung

This chapter concludes the treatise by wrapping up the story of the transfer of Careful Urban Renewal to Yangzhou, drawing lessons from this case and reconnecting with the questions presented in the introduction. To this aim, the chapter proposes a discussion of the case study in dialogue with the literature on policy transfer introduced in Chap. 1 , in particular David Dolowitz’s (Novos Estudios, 36(1), 35–56, 2017) recent treatise about policy transfer and policy learning, and Martin de Jong’s (Policy and Society, 32(2), 89–101, 2013) assessment of policy transfers in China. The case of Yangzhou can be understood as a ‚textbook case‘ for its similarities with the findings of the literature on policy transfers, but it also presents a number of aspects that analyses dedicated to policy transfer and knowledge utilisation have to consider carefully.