Accelerated restructuring in rural China fueled by ‘increasing vs. decreasing balance’ land-use policy for dealing with hollowed villages

Long, Hualou; Li, Yurui; Liu, Yansui; Woods, Michael; Zou, Jian

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.04.003

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“…In 2012, the population of mainland China was 1.36 billion, accounting for 19.1% of the world total. China, having the world's largest population, and a per capita arable land far below the world average is therefore facing a great challenge of scarcity of arable land (Long et al, 2012). Accelerated urban expansion has further worsened the shortage.…”

Section: China's Vigorous Urban Expansion Is Facing Three Major Challmentioning

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Challenges and the way forward in China’s new-type urbanization

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a b s t r a c tChina's urbanization has been a notable global event. The National New Urbanization Plan (2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020) unveiled by the Chinese Central Government revealed a new path for urbanization that accommodated unique Chinese characteristics. The most notable aspect was the transfer from land-centered urbanization to people-oriented urbanization. Given that land urbanization was the key to the previous orbit, this manuscript aims to analyze the evolution and challenge for land-centered urbanization, and way forward for people-oriented urbanization in China. With increasing urban populations and expanding industrial activities, China has experienced vigorous land urbanization and an uneven population distribution pattern since 1978. Land-centered urbanization has created some economic and social benefits, but has also posed many adverse impacts. The issues of the loss of arable land, the phenomenon of "ghost cities," and the urban heat island effect have become critical challenges. Eight suggestions from two perspectives are recommended in this manuscript for achieving new-type urbanization in China. We should give priority to this issue of the citizenization of peasant migrants. Government, scientists, and the public can all combine to influence the development trajectories of China's new-type urbanization.

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Section: China's Vigorous Urban Expansion Is Facing Three Major Challmentioning

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Challenges and the way forward in China’s new-type urbanization

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“…Rural transformation in China is a hybrid and contested process (Long et al, 2012). It possesses changes that rural Europe used to experience during the early-to-mid twentieth century and rural restructuring in contemporary Europe (Cloke et al, 1997;Hoggart and Paniagua, 2001;Robinson, 2004;Woods, 2005Woods, , 2011.…”

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“…It indicates the communities which are experiencing depopulation and housing modernization that led to the abandonment of a significant number of properties, spread throughout the settlement Long et al, 2009). During the past decade, the tendency of "outward expansion while inside hollowing, one family of more houses, building new houses without dismantling the old one, unused new houses" become aggravated in rural China (Long et al, 2012;Li et al, 2014).…”

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Urban–rural transformation in relation to cultivated land conversion in China: Implications for optimizing land use and balanced regional development

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a b s t r a c tThe paper aims to investigate land conversion as a result of urban-rural transformation in the Chinese context. Theoretical analysis and empirical study of the Bohai Rim region find strong connections between the land conversion rates and urban-rural transformation intensity in the period 2000-2010. Rapid land conversion normally takes place in counties/districts of low initial level of urban-rural transformation. However, places of high initial socioeconomic level and low transformation intensity would experience slow land conversion. The different land conversion rates in relation to urban-rural transformation intensity are mainly attributed to the China's land quotas distribution system which is subjective and administrative. The study highlights the implementation of land quotas distribution system based on differences to improve the land distribution efficiency and achieve balanced regional development in China.

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“…Rural China is facing significant out-migration, as some Western countries did after the Second World War (Long and Woods, 2011). Rural development faces the challenges of population emigration, employment, land use, resource consumption and environmental governance (Liu and Zhou, 2015).…”

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“…Rural development faces the challenges of population emigration, employment, land use, resource consumption and environmental governance (Liu and Zhou, 2015). Following the reforms and opening-up of 1978, socioeconomic development and improvement in rural living standards have caused rural residents to abandon traditional housing in village cores for new housing on city and village fringes (Long et al, 2012). In this context, a variety of traditional cultural landscapes have been damaged or have disappeared.…”

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Disappearing gradually and unconsciously in rural China: Research on the sunken courtyard and the reasons for change in Shanxian County, Henan Province

Wang

Zhu

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Journal of Rural Studies

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a b s t r a c tChina's rural areas have entered an important period of modernization, experiencing the rapid transformation from traditional rural society to modern urban society. In this context, since the 1980s, the rural traditional dwellings with unique local characteristics and ecological advantages encounter an enormous threat. The rapid demolition of famous heritage sites and landscapes easily garners the public's attention, but traditional dwellings in rural areas are gradually disappearing as part of the residents' long-term daily practices. The cave dwelling, "sunken courtyard" (known as "di keng yuan" in Mandarin), is an appropriate subject for interpreting this type of change and cultural transformation. The sunken courtyards are primarily distributed throughout central China, Henan Province, Shanxian County; their unique architectural design method show the characteristics of the Loess Plateau culture. This study adopts qualitative research methods, selecting five study cases in Shanxian County, to discuss the changes in the traditional sunken courtyard and to explore the reasons behind these changes. Based on the literature and preliminary investigation, a formal interview was conducted. The results indicate the causes of the changes in terms of decoration, custom, family structure and policy. Additionally, the key conclusion is that the rural land use policy, the limitations of the sunken courtyard itself, the change in residents' ideas and the lack of proper management are the major reasons for this heritage change phenomenon. This study proffers a method regarding the protection of traditional dwellings to attract attention to the disappearing dwellings and to provide a scientific planning method for them.

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Accelerated restructuring in rural China fueled by ‘increasing vs. decreasing balance’ land-use policy for dealing with hollowed villages

Cited by 746 publications

References 64 publications

Challenges and the way forward in China’s new-type urbanization

Challenges and the way forward in China’s new-type urbanization

Urban–rural transformation in relation to cultivated land conversion in China: Implications for optimizing land use and balanced regional development

Disappearing gradually and unconsciously in rural China: Research on the sunken courtyard and the reasons for change in Shanxian County, Henan Province

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