Urbanization of Capital or Capitalization on Urban Land? Land Development and Local Public Finance in Urbanizing China

Lin, George C. S.; Yi, Fangxin

doi:10.2747/0272-3638.32.1.50

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“…Second, urbanization in China has been driven by socioeconomic and transportation development, and realized by institutional adjustment in many cases. Institutional restructuring in China involves entrepreneurial commitment by local government to competitiveness yet with reduced balancei n resource allocation and welfare provision (Lin & Yi, 2011, Lin, Li, Yang, & Hu, 2014. In Wuhan agglomeration, counties have experienced administrative adjustments involving boundary change and change in the status/ level, with the latter one seldom been recognized and investigated (Xu, 2012).…”

Section: Discussion and Policy Implicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Zeng

An-lu

2016

Habitat International

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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: Discussion and Policy Implicationmentioning

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

Zeng

An-lu

2016

Habitat International

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“…The substitution of newly increased construction land of existing construction land may lead to the consideration that the population is not the main driving force for NCD [18,33]. In addition, driven by an incentive to maximize benefits of land leasing and the pressure from developers to acquire land, local governments were trapped by an oversupply of land [55,56]. Therefore, newly increased construction land supply was driven by the ambition of local governments to raise local revenue and attract investment through land granting, instead of population growth.…”

Section: Analysis Of Socio-economic Driving Factorsmentioning

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Spatiotemporal Variation of China’s State-Owned Construction Land Supply from 2003 to 2014

Min

Xin

et al. 2016

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State-owned construction land is the dominant legal land source for construction in China and its supply influences urban expansion, house prices, and economic development, among other factors. Surprisingly, limited attention has been directly devoted to the spatiotemporal variation in land supply or the driving factors. This paper applied a centroid model and hotspot analysis, and created a newly increased construction land dependence-degree index (NCD) to present the spatiotemporal variations of China's construction land supply magnitude and pattern from 2003 to 2014, using land supply data from 339 cities. A two-way fixed effect model was introduced to reveal the influence of the socio-economic driving factors. The results showed that China's state-owned construction land supply area (CLSA) and newly increased construction land supply area (NCSA) both increased during the period from 2003 to 2014, the geographic centroid of CLSA and NCSA moved northwest. NCD showed an overall increasing trend, and hotspots with high NCD migrated from the east region to the west region and shifted from an "east hot and west cold" pattern in 2003 to an "east cold and west hot" pattern in 2014. The gross domestic product (GDP) has a U-shape effect on CLSA and NCD. The population, average annual wage of workers, and investment in fixed assets (fiv) have positive effects on CLSA, and fiv also has a positive effect on NCD. The increasing ratio of tertiary industry added value to secondary industry added value reduces CLSA and NCD, and the effects of state policies vary from year to year. Different land supply policies should be implemented for cities in different development stages.

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“…Moreover, local governments fiercely compete for resources and investments by setting up preferential policies of taxation and land prices, which further complicate urban land development [34]. However, land, as a key input for industrial and commercial development, is yet to be fully marketized in China [35]. Under the current land administration system, local governments can claim agricultural land from rural collectives at low prices to lease to the developers in the land market at either low prices to attract industrial projects or high prices to develop commercial properties [27,32,35].…”

Section: Land Supply Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, land, as a key input for industrial and commercial development, is yet to be fully marketized in China [35]. Under the current land administration system, local governments can claim agricultural land from rural collectives at low prices to lease to the developers in the land market at either low prices to attract industrial projects or high prices to develop commercial properties [27,32,35]. Subsequently, local governments monopolized land supply and used it as an instrument for developing industrial projects or revenue capturing.…”

Section: Land Supply Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial–Temporal Patterns and Driving Factors of Rapid Urban Land Development in Provincial China: A Case Study of Jiangsu

2017

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Abstract:Since its economic reform and opening-up, China has undergone unprecedented urbanization, where massive areas of rural land have been converted into urban use. Urban land development plays an important role in dynamic urban economic development. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of urban land development and its mechanisms in China. We conceptualized the mechanism of urban land development from multiple perspectives based on a case study in Jiangsu Province. We employed the methods of global and local spatial auto-correlation The results show that urban land development varies significantly across different time periods, spatial scales, and regions in Jiangsu. Higher absolute urban land development mainly occurred in Sunan, expanding to Subei and Suzhong, while faster development occurred mainly in Subei, where the initial bases were lower but had strong economic growth potential. The regression analysis shows that market activities and administrative levels had played a more critical role in driving urban land development, which suggests that rapid urban land development has institutional and market foundations. Urban land development was not only a consequence of economic development but also a strategy of local governments to stimulate and govern the urban economy. This study enriches the literature on urban dynamics by providing an institutional understanding of rapid urban land development in a transitional economy.

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Urbanization of Capital or Capitalization on Urban Land? Land Development and Local Public Finance in Urbanizing China

Cited by 280 publications

References 70 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

Spatiotemporal Variation of China’s State-Owned Construction Land Supply from 2003 to 2014

Spatial–Temporal Patterns and Driving Factors of Rapid Urban Land Development in Provincial China: A Case Study of Jiangsu

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