Evolution of the Spatiotemporal Pattern of Urban Industrial Land Use Efficiency in China

Abstract

Along with the globally increasing concern for environmental sustainability, improving urban industrial land use efficiency (UILUE) is critically important for China's development trajectory. However, the existent studies on UILUE in China are mainly conducted at the provincial level, which significantly undermines their value for tailoring practical policy formulations for lower-level governments. To fill this gap, this paper aims to investigate the spatial and temporal pattern of UILUE in China at the prefectural level, examining the underpinning influential factors for the period 2000-2014. Employing the means of spatial autocorrelation and regression, it is found that UILUE in China has improved significantly over the past decade in general but is also accompanied by significant spatial variations. UILUE is positively related to the agglomeration of industries, labour, capital, and technology, in which technology has fundamental effects upon the other factors. It is suggested to policy makers that government policy interventions should be placed predominantly upon technology regulation, i.e., setting admittance criterion for foreign direct investment (FDI), and industrial investment. For future studies, consistent efforts ought to be exerted to examine UILUE at and even under the prefectural level to achieve better understanding among academics and policy practitioners.

Coupling Coordination Relationships between Urban-industrial Land Use Efficiency and Accessibility of Highway Networks: Evidence from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration, China

“…Urban-industrial land use efficiency refers to the sum of social, economic, and ecological efficiencies brought to the city through the reasonable arrangement, utilization, and optimization of urban-industrial land in space and time [14]. Urban-industrial land use efficiency evaluation, which is the estimation of urban-industrial land structure and function, should not only reflect the characteristics of urban-industrial land use, but also reflect the function and output of urban-industrial land [29]. This paper evaluated urban-industrial land use efficiency from three aspects: economic efficiency, social efficiency, and ecological efficiency.…”

“…For the sustainable development of cities, it is essential to explore the relationship between land use and urban traffic (traffic in urban areas) from the perspective of spatial layout and traffic planning, and to analyze the coordination between them. According to the synergy theory between urban land use and urban traffic, with the continuous coordination development of these two systems, the relationship between traffic supply and demand could change and a matching mechanism of supply and demand would be formed [29]. Therefore, this paper aims to examine the coupling coordination relationship between urban-industrial land use efficiency and accessibility of highway networks of cities.…”

Efficiency Loss and Intensification Potential of Urban Industrial Land Use in Three Major Urban Agglomerations in China

“…For example, the difference between the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region (with the lowest loss) and the Pearl River Delta (with the highest loss) rose from 18.48% in 2003 to 36.22% in 2016. On the whole, the situation regarding UILU efficiency in China is not favorable and is getting progressively worse, which contradicts the result that in China, UILU efficiency is improving [4,5,14], and supports the view that UILU efficiency is decreasing [39]. Consequently, considerable attention should be devoted to resolving this issue, entailing the introduction of much more stringent policies and measures to reduce efficiency losses.…”

“…However, incrementally planned growth that requires a continuous supply of industrial land is not sustainable [1]. Serious and longstanding issues in China relating to industrial land include low land prices, excess land supply, the high area proportion, extensive use of land, inefficient land use, lax environmental controls, and the race to the bottom between cities [2][3][4][5][6]. This further has caused or aggravated the problems of repeated industrial construction, high industrial similarity, shortage of commercial and residential land, rapid urban sprawl, excessive occupation of cultivated land, large energy consumption, and worsening environmental pollution [6][7][8][9][10].…”

The Identification and Use Efficiency Evaluation of Urban Industrial Land Based on Multi-Source Data

“…Researchers have substantially studied urban land use efficiency in China [21], with a focus on urban agglomerations [22] or on specific cities [23] as well as land use types such as construction land [24] or industrial land [25]. Efficiency is a crucial criterion for measuring urban land use level, and urban land use efficiency can be understood as the well-being produced on per unit urban land [23].…”