Growth, population and industrialization, and urban land expansion of China

By Xiangzheng Deng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, E. Uchida. 2008

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China is experiencing urbanization at an unprecedented rate over the last two decades. The overall goal of this paper is to understand the extent of and the factors driving urban expansion in China from the late 1980s to 2000. We use a unique three-period panel data set of high-resolution satellite imagery data and socioeconomic data for entire area of coterminous China. Consistent with a number of the key hypotheses generated by the monocentric model, our results demonstrate the powerful role that the growth of income has played in China's urban expansion. In some empirical models, the other key variables in the monocentric model--population, the value of agricultural land and transportation costs--also matter. Adapting the basic empirical model to account for the environment in developing countries, we also find that industrialization and the rise of the service sector appear to have affected the growth of the urban core, but their role was relatively small when compared to the direct effects of economic growth. We also make a methodological contribution, demonstrating the potential importance of accounting for unobserved fixed effects.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations

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Long-term impacts of transport infrastructure networks on land-use change: an international review of empirical studies (2016, background): “The proximity to the road infrastructure or its density is correlated to urban land development for various studies of China (Cheng & Masser, 2003; Deng et al., 2008; Li & Yeh, 2004; Wu & Yeh, 1997).”
Roads, Railways and Decentralization of Chinese Cities (IGC Working Paper) (2012, unknown): “Most tabular data that we use is reported separately for the urban districts, county cities and rural counties in our study region.”
Economic Growth and the Expansion of Urban Land in China (2010, background): “The variable (henceforth AgriInvest) is measured as the investment per capita for each county, as a proxy for agricultural rent to identify the opportunity cost of converting to urban area (Wei, 1993; Deng et al., 2008).”
A spatial econometric analysis of land use efficiency in large and small municipalities (2017, unknown): “Results are similar in some European countries (Hortas-Rico, 2014; Oueslati et al., 2015; Pirotte and Madre, 2011) and in developing countries such as China (Deng et al., 2008; Song et al., 2014) and India (Brueckner and Sridhar, 2012).”