Government Competition, Land Supply Structure and Semi-Urbanization in China

Zhou, Jiawu; Yu, Xiangyao; Jin, Xizan; Mao, Nuannuan

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“…This means that China has entered a stage of social development in which the modern urban population plays a dominant role. However, at the same time, the urbanization rate of the registered population in 2020 was only 45.40% [9]. Moreover, population urbanization has lagged far behind land urbanization for a long time in China.…”

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The Impact of the Urbanization Process on Agricultural Technical Efficiency in Northeast China

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In this paper, on the basis of a theoretical analysis, we quantitatively explore the impact of urbanization on agricultural technical efficiency after measuring the agricultural technical efficiency and the urbanization level, from the perspective of different dimensions in 34 prefecture-level cities in Northeast China, using the SE-DEA model, entropy-TOPSIS method, and the panel regression model. The results show that, except for some cities that achieved technical efficiency in individual years, such as Yichun in 2012 (1.003), and Benxi in 2015 and 2016 (1.011 and 1.254, respectively), the overall level of agricultural technical efficiency in the Northeast Region is still relatively low. The level of overall urbanization in Liaoning was significantly higher than that in Heilongjiang and Jilin. The population urbanization and land urbanization levels of most cities were relatively high, but an obvious improvement trend was not observed. Some cities even appeared to undergo the phenomenon of “anti-urbanization”, and the economic urbanization showed an obvious characteristic of “high begins and low ends” in the Northeast. Moreover, except for the population urbanization, the overall urbanization, land urbanization, and economic urbanization all had a significant positive effect on the agricultural technical efficiency; the effect in Heilongjiang province was higher than that in Liaoning province, and Heilongjiang province showed an obvious catch-up trend. While enriching the research on urbanization and efficiency, this study provided political implications on strengthening the flow of factors between the urban and rural, improving the investment in technology and labor training, and improving the compensation mechanism.

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“…Although the local government will reduce a large amount of land grant revenue in the short term, most of the enterprises introduced by the land transfer by agreement can rapidly expand the regional GDP and provide a large amount of tax revenue for the government. Local governments also invest in industries that can quickly boost regional GDP and tax revenue in the short term by investing the premiums from land transfers by agreement and the corporate tax revenues obtained (Zhou et al., 2021). Although this brings rapid industrial development, it also heavily squeezes the government's investment in environmental protection‐type service industries.…”

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Analysis of the influence of land finance on haze pollution: An empirical study based on 269 prefecture‐level cities in China

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Under the system of political centralization and economic decentralization, the expanding scale of land finance and the increasingly severe environmental pressure have jointly become crucial features of China's urban development. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to study the intrinsic mechanism of land finance on haze pollution for China's economy to achieve kinetic energy transformation and green development. This paper empirically analyzes the impact of land finance on haze pollution using a dynamic spatial Durbin model based on panel data of 269 prefecture‐level cities in China from 2004 to 2017. The statistical results show that haze pollution has a significant “snowball effect” and space spillover effect. Land finance has a significant positive effect on haze pollution. Land transfer both by agreement and by bid invitation, auction, and listing have significant positive effect on haze pollution. However, the promoting effect of land transfer by agreement on haze pollution is significantly higher than that of land sale by bid invitation, auction, and listing. Furthermore, regional heterogeneity implies that for cities in the eastern region, land finance is conducive to alleviating haze pollution. In contrast, for cities in the central and western regions, land finance significantly promotes haze pollution.

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“…This strategy not only helps local governments to realize indirect income (as emphasized by the land finance hypothesis), but also helps to promote regional economic growth and achieve the goal of political promotion [19,34]. This approach naturally becomes the rational choice of local officials [35,36]. At the beginning of the current project, when the local government sold industrial land to enterprises at low prices, the strategy actually had a direct subsidy effect on enterprises [37].…”

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Analysis of the Impact of Industrial Land Price Distortion on Overcapacity in the Textile Industry and Its Sustainability in China

Yao

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At present, China is faced with a situation of unbalanced regional economic development. The report of the 19th session of the national congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that we should accelerate the implementation of the strategy of coordinated regional development. However, this study finds that, in the process of “leaving the cage and changing birds”, the number of enterprises in the textile industry in the eastern region has risen again, which, in turn, has led to overcapacity and has seriously affected the sustainable development of the textile industry. The present study finds that the increasingly distorted price of industrial land is the root cause of the “surge phenomenon” of enterprises in the textile industry and overcapacity. Therefore, China’s central government should be fully aware of the negative impact of the distorted price of industrial land on the sustainable development of textile industry. Efforts must be made to solve the problems of the excessive influx of textile enterprises, overcapacity, and unsustainability in the eastern region in three aspects. Specifically, the land transfer procedure should be standardized, the motivation of local governments’ land attracting investment should be curbed, and the introduction of high-quality enterprises should be paid attention to.

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Government Competition, Land Supply Structure and Semi-Urbanization in China

Cited by 14 publications

References 77 publications

The Impact of the Urbanization Process on Agricultural Technical Efficiency in Northeast China

The Impact of the Urbanization Process on Agricultural Technical Efficiency in Northeast China

Analysis of the influence of land finance on haze pollution: An empirical study based on 269 prefecture‐level cities in China

Analysis of the Impact of Industrial Land Price Distortion on Overcapacity in the Textile Industry and Its Sustainability in China

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