Land-use changes and policy dimension driving forces in China: Present, trend and future

Wang, Jing; Chen, Yongqi; Xiao-mei, Shao; Zhang, Yanyu; Cao, Yingui

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.11.010

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“…Before the reform and opening up in China, the cultivated land use policy subordinated to the planned economy policy. The land tenure system was established to separate ownership and use right in the 1980s (Wang et al, 2012). Associated with the land tenure system, a series of laws and regulations were promulgated, including Agriculture Law, Land Management Law, Water and Soil Conservation Law, Equilibrium of Requisition-Compensation of Cultivated Land, etc.…”

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“…To cope with this, the Chinese government employs legislative measures to impose a "red line" restriction, i.e., 120 million hectares, for its cultivated land (Grassini et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2012). However, driven by the increasing food demand, expanding biofuel production as well as the rapid industrialization and urbanization in recent years, China is under unprecedented pressures on how to properly allocate its scarce cultivated land resources to meet future demands for goods and services (Qiang et al, 2013).…”

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Embodied cultivated land use in China 1987–2007

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Abstract.The recent trend of rapid urbanization draws more and more concerns on the land use pattern in China. This study employs an ecological input-output model to reveal the Guo S., Shen G.Q.P., Chen Z.M., . Embodied cultivated land use in China 1987 to trade pattern, the Agriculture sector is China's largest net importer of cultivated land, in contrast to the Textile sector as the largest net exporter. When China is shown to be a net embodied cultivated land exporter throughout the concerned years, the variation of embodied cultivated land balance is closely related to the country's international trade pattern.

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Embodied cultivated land use in China 1987–2007

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“…There is intense conflict between the demand for land to support rapid urbanization and the limited supply of land resources. Extensive and rapid economic development has initiated a series of consequences, and problems of land use are representative of those in China, and in other parts of the world [29,30]. According to the annual land use change survey data, there was 1880 km 2 of arable land in Shanghai in 2013, which was less than that planned by the State Council to Shanghai.…”

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Quota Restrictions on Land Use for Decelerating Urban Sprawl of Mega City: A Case Study of Shanghai, China

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Abstract:The mega cities of China are faced with great pressure from conflict between huge land demand for construction use and limited resources. To improve this situation, it is necessary to slow the increasing rate of built-up land and even reduce the existing built-up land by improving land use efficiency. Herein, land use planning with urban sprawl deceleration is proposed. Land quotas are important tools for the control of land use planning in China, but the current quotas are mainly in the form of increment, thus cannot support land use planning with urban sprawl deceleration. To address these issues, we developed a model named "current-plan-requirement response (CPRR)", to optimize the land quotas. With this model, we investigated the current status of land use, the process of land use planning, and the requirements of land use planning with urban sprawl deceleration in Shanghai. It was found that the current land quotas have provided somewhat inhabited conversion of arable land to built-up land, but scarcely any regulation of land use efficiency or protection of natural environment. Then, the land quotas were optimized and quota management recommendations were made. The optimized land quotas included four aspects of quotas: arable land protection, ecological conservation, scale constraint on built-up land and economical and intensive land use. These new land quotas could be used to guide reduction of built-up land and increase ecological land in China's mega cities. It might also be beneficial for easing conflict between supply and demand of built-up land, for building an eco-friendly city land-use structure.

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“…Many Chinese studies have investigated the importance of LMI on urban expansion (Taylor, 1998;Wang et al, 2012b;Christensen, 2014;Huang et al, 2015), as this plays a critical role in land use under land property rights. China's land property rights are divided into public ownership (i.e., belonging to the state) and collective ownership (i.e., belonging to farmers' collectives).…”

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Land management institution as a key confinement of urbanization in Baotou, China⿿Application of proposed endogenous urbanization model

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Zhai

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Land Use Policy

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a b s t r a c tChina has been experiencing rapid urbanization, with a large amount of rural land converted into urban land, leading to debate by researchers and governments. This study investigates the endogenous factors influencing urban expansion and quantifies their effects to promote intensive and sustainable urban land use in order to realize new-type urbanization, by employing GIS technology and an endogenous growth model. The simulation results explain the expansion of urban land in the case of Baotou city, China. The result shows that the land management institution(LMI) has played a critical role in urban land expansion in Baotou city. Its multiplier effect reaches 0.166, which means a one percentage point increase in the strength of LMI leads to a 0.166% increase in urban land area. The presented analysis reveals four main findings. Firstly, the major factors influencing urban expansion are (LMI), urban disposable income per capita, the secondary and tertiary industry, technological progress, and population density. Secondly, LMI has a critical influence on urban expansion. Thirdly, technological progress has a positive effect on urban expansion by merging into the secondary and tertiary industry. Finally, population density and the tertiary industry have a dampening effect on urban expansion. According to the analysis, we suggest that the central government in China should regulate the behavior of local governments to reduce principal-agent risk, as they hold the state land property rights as the trustee of the public. Meanwhile, the government should pay more attention to guiding technological progress by promoting industrial transformation and economic quality, not just focusing on economic quantity, especially for resource-based cities.

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Land-use changes and policy dimension driving forces in China: Present, trend and future

Cited by 298 publications

References 22 publications

Embodied cultivated land use in China 1987–2007

Embodied cultivated land use in China 1987–2007

Quota Restrictions on Land Use for Decelerating Urban Sprawl of Mega City: A Case Study of Shanghai, China

Land management institution as a key confinement of urbanization in Baotou, China⿿Application of proposed endogenous urbanization model

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