Car Ownership Control in Chinese Mega Cities: Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou

Feng, Suwei; Li, Qiang

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“…Beijing auctions land for residential, commercial, and office uses, and several Chinese cities auction license plates (Yang, Ren, Liu, and Zhang 2015;Feng and Qiang 2013). Auctioning the permits is the simplest way to establish the right price for on-street parking in a residential neighborhood.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In comparison, the prices paid in Shanghai's license-plate auctions have never exceeded $15,000 (Feng and Qiang 2013). A parking fee of $80 a month, for example, amounts to $960 a year; if the interest rate is 5 percent per year, a level income stream of $960 per year is equivalent to a capital value of $19,200 ($960 ÷ 0.05).…”

Section: Political Prospects Of Parking Benefit Districtsmentioning

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Charging for Parking to Finance Public Services

Shoup

Yuan

Jiang

2016

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Many cities have two serious problems: overcrowded on-street parking and undersupplied public services. This article examines a policy to address both problems: charge market prices to manage on-street parking and use the revenue to finance local public services. Our case study of a pilot program for alley improvements in Beijing finds that the estimated payback period for the investments in sanitation, security, landscaping, and parking is less than three years. Only 35 percent of households in the pilot program own a car and the average income of car-owning households is almost three times the income of carless households.

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Section: Revenue From On-street Parkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Political Prospects Of Parking Benefit Districtsmentioning

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Charging for Parking to Finance Public Services

Shoup

Yuan

Jiang

2016

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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“…This (1) change represents a 3.3% increase in the mean purchase price paid by this group of consumers. An additional concern is that several large Chinese cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai have also enacted vehicle ownership restrictions such as auctions and lotteries in an effort to curb congestion and pollution (Feng and Li 2013). Restrictions may alter the pool of individuals eligible to purchase cars and may limit the scope for status competition through consumption signaling in these regions.…”

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“…Rates of private car ownership in China are low but are increasing rapidly. While in 1985 the rate of ownership was only 0.27 for every 1,000 people, this rate has risen to 55 per 1,000 in 2011 (Feng and Li ). Rising affluence combined with growing automobile ownership suggests that the scope for status competition through vehicles and the effects that we observe may intensify in the future.…”

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Marriage Market Matching and Conspicuous Consumption in China

2015

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Visible expenditures which convey higher socioeconomic status may help individuals differentiate themselves in the marriage market when there is competition for partners and imperfect information. We examine a unique dataset of automobile purchasers in China to investigate the extent to which skewed sex ratios influence expenditure decisions for this highly visible commodity. Using a triple difference approach, we show that unmarried male consumers who face an unfavorable sex ratio purchase more expensive, luxury vehicles than their married peers. Lower income borrowers and those residing in regions with the worst sex ratios exhibit the largest relative degree of conspicuous consumption. In addition to the direct cost of consumption signaling, we demonstrate that this behavior generates negative externalities in the form of lower average fuel economy and higher average vehicle weight. As it has worsened sex ratios, status competition and the associated negative repercussions we identify represent unintended consequences of China's one child policy. (JEL O12, E21, J12)

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“…Hangzhou actually developed its strategy on the basis of the Tianjin model, combining a lottery and auction mode. See, also, Feng and Li 2013.…”

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Breathe Easy? Local Nuances of Authoritarian Environmentalism in China's Battle against Air Pollution

Ahlers

Shen

2017

The China Quarterly

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The heavy smog suffocating China's cities is increasingly being perceived as a threat by both the population and the authorities. Consequently, political action aiming at regulating ambient air pollution has become increasingly comprehensive and rigid in recent years. Even measures limiting consumption and production seem to become acceptable as China is facing an airpocalypse. Does this suggest a genesis of real "authoritarian environmentalism" (AE) in China? Taking this as a heuristic point of departure, we present findings from research on the implementation of air pollution control measures in Hangzhou city. We offer a critical examination of the concept of AE and, in particular, of local policy implementation strategies vis-à-vis the general public. Two measures in Hangzhou's air policy portfolio are analysed that reveal considerable variation: restrictions on the use of private cars and the (re)location of industrial facilities. Describing the conditions that have helped to produce different implementation strategies, we argue for different emphases in a potential Chinese model of AE. In a context where outcomes are sought at any cost, we observe more complexity and nuances than are usually captured by the AE concept.Keywords: China's local governance; authoritarian environmentalism; air pollution prevention and control policy; private car use restrictions; industrial resettlement Effective ecological, climate and resource protection policies usually entail painful cuts in individual consumption and require sober revisions of all kinds of growth patterns. The concept of "authoritarian environmentalism" (hereafter abbreviated to AE) concedes that, in theory, authoritarian governments are better equipped with institutional and procedural features that allow for faster and

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Car Ownership Control in Chinese Mega Cities: Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou

Cited by 23 publications

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Charging for Parking to Finance Public Services

Charging for Parking to Finance Public Services

Marriage Market Matching and Conspicuous Consumption in China

Breathe Easy? Local Nuances of Authoritarian Environmentalism in China's Battle against Air Pollution

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