The case study presented here is about local government of a high-tech zone, created some fifteen years ago by the Chinese State within Zhuhai City, in the south of the country, very near from Macao. The article analyzes the progressive development of a growth coalition based on shared rules, a policy network of both public and private actors, and supported by a rather indirect political leadership (compared to Chinese practices). The rationale to be tested here is about the case conformity with « local governance regime », as defined in the corresponding scientific literature.