Local state and administrative urbanization in post-reform China: A case study of Hebi City, Henan Province

Liu, Yungang; Yin, Guanwen; J.C., Laurence

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2011.08.003

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“…On accounts of the empirical studies on the primary causes of urbanization, we selected 11 potential factors namely GDP per capita (PGDP), the proportion of the second industry to GDP (PSI), the proportion of the tertiary industry to GDP (PTI), government revenue per area (PGV), fixed asset investment per area (PFAI), disposable personal income for urban residents (DPI), budget per area (PD), foreign trade export per area (PFT), foreign investment per area (PFI), retail sales of consumer goods (PTSC)and road junctions per area (PRJ) (Deng, Huang, Rozelle, Uchida, 2010;Liu, Yin, Ma, 2012;Seto et al, 2012). Because the explanatory variables are in the ratio form, we transformed these factors into the "per capita" or "per area" form correspondingly.…”

Section: Decomposition Of Urbanizationmentioning

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“…First, a large body of research, focused on the influence of administrative change on urban economic, political, demographic and other changes, allows a general picture to be drawn of urban administrative hierarchy and its change. Studies have been conducted in a number of Chinese cities such as Beijing and Guangzhou to demonstrate China's governance, power decentralization and territory adjustment, in which the change of the administrative boundary and administrative status/level are specifically incarnated (Chung, 2008;Liu & Yang, 2012, Liu, Yin, & Ma, 2012Zhao, Lü, & Woltjer, 2009). There are substantial achievements on both sides and these two types of administrative changes are generally interwoven with each other, yet we attempt to focus our research on the influence of the administrative status/level change on urbanization.…”

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Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

Zeng

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2016

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a b s t r a c tUrbanization in China has been closely associated with urban sprawl, rural migration and the role of government has been more direct and powerful in setting it in motion. In 2014, the New Urbanization Planning in China has been released in which the development of urban agglomeration and smallmedium cities has been highlighted. In this context, we decompose urbanization into populationoriented and land-centered archetypes and devise spatial models in multiple strategies embedded with different spatial relations to unfold the underlying driving forces using Wuhan agglomeration as the case. In addition to the identification of major driving forces which are gross domestic product (GDP), income, fixed asset investment and the transportation construction, the major contributions of our study lie in the gauge on administrative influence, to be more specific, the status of urban district, city-level county and county, through incorporating different spatial weight matrix in different scenarios in spatial modeling. It found out that 1) both non-agricultural population and urban land exhibit significant spatial autocorrelation and the superiority in the city center is evident; 2) socio-economic development and transportation construction significantly influence urbanization whereas the personal income and fixed asset investment accounting for a large proportion being the most powerful factors; 3) different administrative status at the county level is an unneglectable factor and urban area has higher probability to expand when urban district is adjacent to county-level city; 4) the magnitude of this administrative status influence generally grows to a certain level and then reaches to a plateau. These findings provide theoretical basis for understanding the administrative dimension in new urbanization and have important policy implications on administrative adjustment and urban agglomeration.

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Section: Decomposition Of Urbanizationmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

Zeng

An-lu

2016

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“…Soaring real estate prices attract speculation from private and foreign funds, further increasing housing price levels. This is similar with the investment-driven growth of Liu et al [2] and the administrative urbanization of Liu et al [3], but we further analyzed the detailed process of local government-led investment in real estate, and clarified the roles played by different participants in the development model. The panel VAR model proves that land leasing has a strong positive effect on local governments' general fiscal revenue, explaining why local governments increase the supply of industrial land at low prices.…”

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“…Based on panel data covering all provinces from 1998 to 2005, they find that the impact of public land leasing stimulated local fiscal revenue and gross domestic product. Liu et al [3] also point out that the local state-dominated model of administrative urbanization in China differs markedly from the urban growth model in Western nations. Land-based urban development can rapidly produce dramatic economic and urban outcomes, but whether these are beneficial to the urban and rural residents is not clear.…”

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“…Land-based urban development can rapidly produce dramatic economic and urban outcomes, but whether these are beneficial to the urban and rural residents is not clear. Both the investment-driven growth of Liu et al [2] and the administrative urbanization of Liu et al [3] are based on land and are led by local government. It seems that local government-led land-based investment or development accompanying urbanization drove growth in China.…”

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A Vector Auto Regression Model Applied to Real Estate Development Investment: A Statistic Analysis

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This study analyzes the economic system dynamics of investment in real estate from mainly four participants in China. Local governments limit the supply of commercial and residential land to raise fiscal revenue, and expand debts by land mortgage to develop industrial zones and parks. Led by local government, banks and real estate development enterprises forge a coalition on real estate investment and facilitate real estate price appreciation. The above theoretical model is empirically evidenced with VAR (Vector Auto Regression) methodology. A panel VAR model shows that land leasing and real estate price appreciation positively affect local government general fiscal revenue. Additional VAR models find that bank credit in addition to private and foreign funds respectively have strong positive dynamic effects on housing prices. Housing prices also have a strong positive impact on speculation from private funds and hot money.

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Identifying the employment effect of county‐city merger in China

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2024

Population Space and Place

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This paper draws upon a quasi‐natural experiment of county‐city mergers in China to examine whether state‐led urbanisation makes a difference in local labour markets. Based on the difference‐in‐differences framework and three waves of data from the China Household Finance Survey, we show that, on the urban fringe, residents' probability of working in nonagricultural sectors increased by 6.69 percentage points after the policy. Residents responded mainly by shifts from the agriculture sector to being self‐employed. The results indicate that, after fringe counties connect to the corresponding big city in substance, residents in peripheral areas could benefit from the positive spillover effect from large cities and gain employment.

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Local state and administrative urbanization in post-reform China: A case study of Hebi City, Henan Province

Cited by 88 publications

References 14 publications

Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

A Vector Auto Regression Model Applied to Real Estate Development Investment: A Statistic Analysis

Identifying the employment effect of county‐city merger in China

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