Local Growth Coalition: The Context and Implications of China’s Gradualist Urban Land Reforms

Zhu, Jieming

doi:10.1111/1468-2427.00211

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“…In the process of attracting both foreign and domestic investment, urban governments tend to establish more and more DZs in the outskirts, which often lead to the agglomerated development of industrial land [57]. Along with the establishing of DZs, various scholars have confirmed that institutional changes, through land use "policies" [58] such as land use right and ownership [59], the tax-sharing reform of 1994 [60], and the housing commercialization reform [61], have great impacts on urban land expansion process in China [33].…”

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Urban Land Expansion and Structural Change in the Yangtze River Delta, China

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Urban development in China has attracted considerable scholarly attention. However, more work is still needed to examine and understand the mechanisms of urban land expansion, especially within the context of globalization/marketization, decentralization and urbanization. This paper analyzes urban land expansion and structural changes in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). We find that cities in the YRD are experiencing urban land expansion mainly characterized by the growth of residential and industrial land. The dominant characteristics of urban land expansion in cities have also varied within different development and administrative levels. Based on our conceptual framework, we have used multi-models to investigate the driving forces of urban land expansion and structural changes in the YRD. The results reveal that six influencing factors-foreign direct investment (FDI), labor, government competition, institution, population, and job-housing relations-facilitate land use change in the economic transition process. However, their impacts differ in cities in different geographical locations, as well as with different administrative levels. Finally, this paper discusses policies to promote sustainable urban land use in the YRD. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 10282

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“…However, thirdly, the effects of such ambiguity over property rights bear less heavily on firms (who report more confidence in the regulatory system than in other NICs) 14 than on domestic landowners/farmers, whose land may easily be taken over for 'public use' with minimal compensation (Zhang 2006). Finally, despite economic liberalisation, relations between state/official and society/businesspersons/ professional consultants remain asymmetric in political terms (Zhu 1999;Zhang 2002). The state has legitimated external interests in an attempt to unleash the economic dynamism of societal groups, but in a way that directs that power toward its own goals.…”

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Territorial Competition in China and the West

Chien¹,

Gordon²

2008

Regional Studies

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Territorial economic competition first emerged in North America, appeared in Europe during the 1980s, and recently in many LDC/transition economies chasing FDI. In China the process is key to economic development, but operates without the electoral competition and private land markets which are central in the West. We relate developments in each to a general model whereby local circumstances shape selective coalitions of economic agents, and hence policy mixes, differing in their wastefulness and redistributive effects. In the Chinese case, strong competition (involving much waste) is primarily driven by ambitious local officials seeking promotion by pursuing centrally determined growth targets

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“…Decision makers at the city scale still need to face challenges or pressures against ecological conservation from pro-growth coalitions, which involve governmental departments and non-governmental actors. The pro-growth interest binds local bureaucracy at the scales of the city, individual districts, and streets to enterprises and inward foreign capital into an informal coalition to address regional competition and to circumvent central pressure for revenue submission (Zhu, 1999a). The demands of most of the pro-growth coalitions on converting additional land resources into local development (Zhu, 1999b) may shape pressures against ecological conservation in local decision-making.…”

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Urban ecological conservation policy in Shenzhen: the production of a ‘Biophysical Fix’

Lin

2017

Urban, Planning and Transport Research

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Local environmental policy has recently become the topic of academic research and practices within the context of increased integration of the ecological dimension in the existing regulation of economies and societies, and space. Based on these discussions, local environmental policy is not merely an issue of ecological technology; rather, it is more a question of social power, in particular the power of the state and its ability to balance other forces and demands placed on it by society. The paper draws on this theoretical discussion to capture the multidimensionality of the power relations involved in the approaches to local ecological policy. The evolution of the policy agenda in the city of Shenzhen provides a paradigmatic example of the way in which policies can be shaped by the political considerations that surround and act between nature, governmental departments and society. The empirical results show that the ecological conservation policy of the city has shifted away from comparatively weak ecological regulations towards a stronger set of principles. The comparatively stronger ecological regulatory regime is best understood as a 'biophysical fix' that has been shaped by various forces originating in broader economic, social and institutional struggles.

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Local Growth Coalition: The Context and Implications of China’s Gradualist Urban Land Reforms

Cited by 268 publications

References 13 publications

Urban Land Expansion and Structural Change in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Urban Land Expansion and Structural Change in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Territorial Competition in China and the West

Urban ecological conservation policy in Shenzhen: the production of a ‘Biophysical Fix’

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