跨國界經濟區域的形成是當今資本主義的特色之一。本文的目的在採吉寸台灣與南中國跨國界區域經濟中的統理機制。我指出既有的理論大多以國家經濟體為分析單位，無法分析這一新的現象。我以制度學派和調解理論對於統理機制的觀點來分析，指出台灣企業的網絡闕係，中國大陸的地方政府，以及台灣企業與大陸地方政府官員的網絡彈性作法，是這個區域經濟形成的主要機制。而兩岸的國家機器的角色，主要是基於市場理性而非介入談判的類型。我並進一步指出，資本的外移和區域經濟的興起，並沒有使得台灣的國家機器完全淡出，國家機器在1990年代，仍採取了新的發展策略。不過，民主化後台灣國家機器的民挨國家化， 與資本大量的外移和國際化，形成強烈的對比。

Cross-border economic integration has become one of the new trends， along with globalization， in the world wconomy_ This paper discusses governance mechanisms of the cross-border economy between Taiwan and Southern China_ I point out that the deficiency of the current literature on economic development， which takes the national economy as the unit of analysis， is not able to analyze the emergence of a cross-border region_ I use concepts that derived from neo-institutionism and regulation theory to comprehend the formation of the Taiwan-China cross-border economic region_ I argue that the industrial networks of Taiwanese enterprises， local states in China， as weIl as the alliance between local state bureaucrats in China and Taiwanese capitalists， play key roles in the formation of this region_ The role of the respective central states was Iimited_FinaIly， this paper contests the thesis of the “hollowing out of nation states，\" and argues that the Taiwanese state has still been attempting to upgrade the economy by adopting new strategies_ Itsimportance on economic development has not been reduced_ However， because of the tensions between political democratization/nationalization and crossborder economic integration， the state is suffered from a contradictory situation.