Strategic planning framework for land consolidation in China: A top-level design based on SWOT analysis

Abstract

China is in the midst of an unprecedented and critical period of strategic opportunities for land consolidation. In this process, the country has been confronted with new situations, opportunities, and serious challenges, all of which urgently require top-level design of strategic planning framework for land consolidation. Based on a SWOT analysis, we propose a strategic planning framework for land consolidation at the national level, with a focus on clarification of internal Strength-Weakness strategies and external Opportunity-Threat strategies involved in the land consolidation process. Whereas it can be concluded that land consolidation in China has not yet entered the stage of landscape-ecological pattern, it is on the brink of that stage. Thus, the proposed strategic plan should provide strong protection for continuous promotion of land consolidation through the application of a top-down and comprehensive design considering agriculture production, livelihood and ecology as comprehensive targets. Meanwhile, it should also unswervingly adhere to the "red line," optimize the layout of urban and rural land use and propel a new landscape-ecological pattern of land consolidation. In this way, strategy-oriented support can be provided to improve land consolidation implementation and ensure that it is stable, coordinated and effective.

Differentiated Optimization of Sustainable Land Use in Metropolitan Areas: A Demarcation of Functional Units for Land Consolidation

“…Based on the characteristics of land use in metropolitan and surrounding areas and the studies by Yan (2012 and [4,14], we determine a correspondence relationship between land use status and production-life-ecology space classifications (as shown in Table 2). The location quotient theory has been adopted to perform quantitative evaluation of the space functional endowment of each evaluation unit [40,41].…”

“…The second letter of each unit, namely, "F", "R", "E", "U", and "P", are abbreviations of five functional categories for land consolidation units. Specifically, "F" denotes the functions of the rural production consolidation units that aim to increase the size of cultivated land and enhance agricultural production by improving agricultural infrastructure and constructing high-standard basic farmlands [4,44]. "R" denotes the rural life consolidation units that stress the improvement of farmers' living environments.…”

“…From 2000 to 2010, the urbanization rate of land in China was 1.85 times that of its population rate. Furthermore, a total of 3.49 million ha of new construction land were added to the existing stock, thereby indicating that approximately 200,000 ha of cultivated land were lost annually during this period [4]. Aside from the unbalanced quantity problem between urban and rural areas, the decreasing quality of land use is also one of the most discussed resource issues.…”

Supply input-output economics in process prioritisation of interdependent manufacturing systems

“…SWOT is an analysis of internal (strengths, weaknesses) and external (opportunities, threats) factors that result to positive and negative impacts to the development of the organisation (Beloborodko et al, 2015). It was applied to four training programs in building vocational skills for marginalised youth in Uganda and to a strategic planning framework for land consolidation in China (Tukundane et al, 2015;Yan et al, 2015). SD, on other hand, is a mathematical modelling strategy used in the analysis of relationships among various factors, simulation of quantitative data, and acquisition of information on the system's behaviour (Liu et al, 2015).…”

Sustainability of Land Use Promoted by Construction-to-Ecological Land Conversion: A Case Study of Shenzhen City, China

“…Land rehabilitation is a comprehensive treatment of land use in the environment and involves three major modes: land exploitation, land consolidation and land reclamation [50]. Land rehabilitation is mainly for agricultural land and unused land, including rural construction land, wastelands, and land degraded by mining.…”