Prof. Genia Kostka, together with Prof. Sarah Eaton (Göttingen University) acquired a new DFG project on the topic of: “Interjurisdictional Competition and Cooperation in China: An Analysis of Sources and Policy Interventions at the County Level”. During the next three years, this research project will develop and apply an analytical framework to explain variation in local interjurisdictional relations in contemporary China ranging from competitive to cooperative behaviour in the two selected policy fields of economics and environment.