Fiscal decentralization, political centralization, and land urbanization in China

He, Canfei; Zhou, Yi; Huang, Zhiji

doi:10.1080/02723638.2015.1063242

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“…After the rapid expansion from 2001 to 2007, the coefficient of UP gradually increased and became more significant, which indicates that urban planning had a much greater impact on urban growth in Nanjing. This is contradictory with the findings of Qian [15] and He and others [24] who found that fiscal decentralization and political centralization have made local governments the leaders of land development. This finding is also contradictory to the study conducted by Zhu [51], focusing on the relationship of land use right and urban development in the early 1990s.…”

Section: Relation Between Planned Areas and Urban Land Expansioncontrasting

confidence: 87%

“…China has been experiencing tremendous urban land expansion or land urbanization [24]. Such expansion is often accredited to urbanization, industrialization, and economic transition in China [4,7,53].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One is the spatial error model (SEM) that shall be employed when the error terms of a model are spatially correlated. The other one is the spatial lag model (SLM) that will be functional when the spatial dependence between variables seems to be very critical for a model and induces spatial autocorrelation [24].…”

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Spatial Determinants of Urban Land Expansion in Globalizing Nanjing, China

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This paper proposes a cost-benefit framework to address the role of parcel and neighborhood conditions, as well as government policies, and investigates the spatial determinants of urban land expansion in Nanjing, one of the sub-centers of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). Using spatial regression models, we find the significance of the economy of scale, agglomeration, accessibility, and government policies in Nanjing's urban growth. In the earlier stage, urban expansion in Nanjing was mainly driven by the development of infrastructure. Since entering the 21st century, the emerging commercial and industrial sub-centers have become the major centers of growth, which has changed Nanjing's spatial structure from compact monocentric to a polycentric one. We also highlight the importance of government policies that have been strengthened by various national strategies, including the "New-type Urbanization" and "Beautiful China" strategies. Different from cities in the Pearl River Delta, Nanjing has a more significant top-down process in its development, which indicates that the municipal government of Nanjing is playing a more important role in urban growth.

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Section: Relation Between Planned Areas and Urban Land Expansioncontrasting

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…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.…”

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“…Several case studies provide the "big picture" of institutional factors driving urban land development in China. The process was conceptualized as government-engineered and land-centered urbanization [27]. Recent studies have focused on the political economy of urban development in China, especially within the framework of neo-liberalization, to investigate the motivation behind land commodification [28].…”

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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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The impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency in social housing provision: Evidence from China

Liu

2022

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This study examines the impact mechanism of fiscal decentralization on the overall efficiency, scale efficiency, and management efficiency of social housing provision in China. We find that fiscal decentralization is negatively related to the overall efficiency and management efficiency but has no impact on scale efficiency. Further, fiscal decentralization decreases management efficiency by increasing local governments' dependence on land finance. From the point of regional heterogeneity, fiscal decentralization in the Chinese eastern region has led to a significant decrease in management efficiency while that of the middle and western regions is insignificant.

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Fiscal decentralization, political centralization, and land urbanization in China

Cited by 173 publications

References 46 publications

Spatial Determinants of Urban Land Expansion in Globalizing Nanjing, China

Spatial Determinants of Urban Land Expansion in Globalizing Nanjing, China

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

The impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency in social housing provision: Evidence from China

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