Does land transfer promote the development of new-type urbanization? New evidence from urban agglomerations in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River

Urbanization is both a global concept and a project that is connected with all aspects of the society. China’s new urbanization process has been attracting wide attention internationally due to its rapid development and rich content. This new urbanization has significant impacts on hundreds of millions of people’s lives, as well as global wellbeing. Although Western China has always been in a relatively weak state of development when compared to the other parts of China, it has a large area and a significant amount of people, which all require a reasonable urbanization method. To show the development level of new urbanization in western China, we constructed an evaluation system and used entropy and weighted summation methods to get the development scores. We then obtained the correlation coefficient with the partial correlation analysis method. The results indicate that: 1) economic, land, and social urbanization are significant influencing factors; 2) temporal and spatial differences were significant during the 15-year period in these 11 cities; 3) among the factor layers, the score of social urbanization fluctuated the most, ecological civilization and economic urbanization showed an upward trend, and population urbanization and land urbanization have been relatively stable in the last few years; 4) for the western capitals, although economic urbanization and ecological civilization have achieved coordinated development in recent years, the endogenous power of the economy still needs to be tapped, and ecological development is facing greater pressure. Meanwhile the expansion of urban land has been too fast to respond well to population growth, which also damages the urban ecosystem to a certain extent. We conclude that it is necessary to realize the coordinated development of different factors in new urbanization, promote new urbanization, while considering the actual needs of the city and also developing the rural areas. This study can provide decision support for the development of new urbanization in the western region.

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“…other aspects (Wu et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2022;Zhao and Wang, 2022). These specific aspects are the manifestation of new urbanization.…”

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Evolution Characteristics of New Urbanization in the Provincial Capital Cities of Western China

Zou

Deng

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…In addition, we discussed various stages of resource mismatch with LTM changes and their impact on green TFP in the theoretical model and then summarize it as the threshold effect in a quantitative model in empirical strategies, which can present the complicated relationship between these three main variables adequately. When the relationship between land transfer, land price, and economics or its related aspects was mentioned in other studies (Geng et al, 2016;Chen et al, 2018;Nakamura, 2019;Zhang et al, 2022), the linear effect of land transfer or land price on economics has been explored in depth, while the multi-stage effects have still not received much attention. Chen et al (2022) examined the non-linear effects of developer obligation on property prices from the perspective of land dedication in China's bottom-up urban redevelopment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Specifically, LTM would reduce some manual intervention in land prices in the transfer process of the agreement method, raise the price threshold for enterprise entry, and force some inefficient enterprises with backward production technology to move to suburban areas or exit the local market, while some high value-added industries can afford higher land prices and enter correspondingly. In the process of this adjustment, there are apparent differences in the production efficiency, pollution emission intensity, and pollution control strategies of these industries (Gross and Solymossy, 2016;Zhang et al, 2022). The transition from traditional inefficient industries to capitaland technology-intensive industries can not only improve the use of resources, but also contribute to the preservation of the ecological environment (Crotty, 2002;Jensen and Mina, 2019).…”

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Assessing the effects of land transfer marketization on green total factor productivity from the perspective of resource allocation: Evidence from China

Jin¹,

Lu²,

Gong³

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Exploring the determinants of green total factor productivity (green TFP) is of great importance to economic performance and ecological sustainability. Based on the data of 30 provincial units in China from 2004 to 2016, this study first analyzes the mechanism of land transfer marketization (LTM) affecting green TFP through resource allocation, then the regional resource allocation level is measured using the indicator of factor market distortion, and regional green TFP is estimated by the slack-based measure (SBM) directional distance function and Malmquist–Luenberger (ML) index. On the basis of that, a panel threshold regression model is used to empirically examine the theoretical mechanism of LTM affecting green TFP through the intermediate variable of resource allocation. We find that there is one single-threshold effect between LTM, resource allocation, and green TFP taking resource allocation as the threshold variable. Specifically, while the degree of resource mismatch is lower than 0.1371, the coefficient of LTM on green TFP is 0.1553; otherwise, the coefficient changes to −0.2776. This study concludes that LTM would significantly increase green TFP when the degree of regional resource mismatch is below the threshold; otherwise, it would have an inhibitory effect on the development of green TFP. In addition, the economic development level, R&D investment, and infrastructure level can, to a certain extent, contribute to the improvement of green TFP. The findings have three important policy implications for the land transfer policy of local governments, investment strategies of enterprises, and differentiated policy services.

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“…And there are studies focus on the spatial correlation of new-type urbanization. Zhang et al thought that the Moran’I of the new-type urbanization fluctuates approximately 0.120, showing positive spatial correlation (Zhang et al 2022a ).…”

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Spatial and nonlinear effects of new-type urbanization and technological innovation on industrial carbon dioxide emission in the Yangtze River Delta

Zhang

Chen

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The purpose of this paper is to quantify the level of new-type urbanization and unravel the spatial and nonlinear effects of new-type urbanization and technological innovation on industrial carbon emissions. Although the impact of traditional urbanization levels on carbon emissions has been widely studied, there is still a huge room for optimization, and the impact of new-type urbanization on carbon emissions has not yet been clarified. Selecting 37 cities in the Yangtze River Delta as a research sample, this paper measures the new-type urbanization based on an evaluation system we build. Consequently, we assess the spatial and nonlinear effects of new-type urbanization and technological innovation on carbon emissions by the spatial Durbin model and non-parameter addictive model, respectively. The results indicate that the new-type urbanization and low-carbon city pilot policy have significant spatial spillover effects on reducing carbon dioxide emissions, while the economic growth plays a positive role in increasing carbon emission. As for nonlinear effects, there is a significant inverted “N”-shaped relationship between the level of new-type urbanization and carbon dioxide emissions, while the nexus between technological innovation and carbon emissions is an inverted “U”-shaped relationship. This paper provides a new perspective for confirming the mechanism of the new-type urbanization on carbon emissions. Meanwhile, these findings are of significance for the relevant authorities in China to develop appropriate policy in carbon dioxide emission reduction.

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Does land transfer promote the development of new-type urbanization? New evidence from urban agglomerations in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River

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Evolution Characteristics of New Urbanization in the Provincial Capital Cities of Western China

Evolution Characteristics of New Urbanization in the Provincial Capital Cities of Western China

Assessing the effects of land transfer marketization on green total factor productivity from the perspective of resource allocation: Evidence from China

Spatial and nonlinear effects of new-type urbanization and technological innovation on industrial carbon dioxide emission in the Yangtze River Delta

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