'Zone Fever', the Arable Land Debate, and Real Estate Speculation: China's evolving land use regime and its geographical contradictions

By C. Cartier. 2001

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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From cities to super mega city regions in China in a new wave of urbanisation and economic transition: Issues and challenges (2020, background): “Numerous development zones and parks, such as ‘industrial parks’, were developed by the governments to attract investment (Cartier, 2001).”
Local officials as land developers: Urban spatial expansion in China (2009, background): “spatially in the aftermath of these reforms (Wu and Yeh, 1997; Wu, 1998; Gaubatz, 1999; Yeh and Li, 1999; Fu et al., 1999; Lin, 2001; Cartier, 2001; Deng, 2004; Tan et al., 2005).”
Impacts of land finance on urban sprawl in China: The case of Chongqing (2018, background): “There are few attempts to link the causes of urban sprawl and the land financial incentives despite the extensive literature in the fields of land finance and urban sprawl in China respectively (Cartier, 2001; Deng and Huang, 2004; Zhang, 2000).”
Urbanization of Capital or Capitalization on Urban Land? Land Development and Local Public Finance in Urbanizing China (2011, background): “…of accelerated urbanization and massive land development taking place in post-reform China have attracted considerable scholarly attention (Cartier, 2001; Zhu, 2002, 2005; Deng and Huang, 2004; Lin and Ho, 2005; Wu et al., 2007; Litchtenberg and Ding, 2008, 2009; Yang and Wang, 2008; Lin,…”
Economic transition and urban transformation of China: The interplay of the state and the market (2015, background): “A large number of development zones and parks, such as ‘industrial parks’, ‘economic development zones’ and ‘high-tech parks’, were planned and developed by the governments to attract investors at different administrative levels (Cartier, 2001).”
Dilemmas of Local Governance under the Development Zone Fever in China: A Case Study of the Suzhou Region (2008, background): “However, a vast majority of local governments acquired and converted great amounts of farmland by eminent domain, causing a wide variety of problems, including the omnipresent ‘development zone fever’ and a severe waste of prime agricultural land (Cartier, 2001).”
The State, Land System, and Land Development Processes in Contemporary China (2005, background): “…cadres as land use planners and regulators also had vested interests in land expropriation and conveyance, they could quietly misclassify the needed agricultural land as already ‘‘nonagricultural land’’ and therefore not subject to the limitation of the annual land-conversion quota (Cartier 2001).”
Fiscal decentralization, political centralization, and land urbanization in China (2016, background): “While case studies have documented the ways in which cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan, and Nanjing have expanded spatially since the reforms (Cartier, 2001; Gaubatz, 1999), we, nevertheless, still lack a rigorous understanding of the forces driving this rapid urban land expansion.”
A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009 (2013, background): “The tremendous increase in the verticality of builtup infrastructure in Chinese cities over the past decade (figure 2(m)) is a function of several factors: severely constrained land markets from 1949 to 1978, post-reform introduction of a land and real estate market, and the subsequent skyrocketing ”
Urban land expansion under economic transition in China: A multi- level modeling analysis * (2015, background): “A “zone fever” was recognized in the mid-1990s as local governments competed intensively to set up development zones (Cartier, 2001). Yang and Wang (2008) confirm that local governments have scrambled for foreign capital by providing cheap land through setting up special developments zones.”
Urbanization, Land Development, and Land Financing: Evidence from Chinese Cities (2014, background): “As noted by Cartier (2001) and Deng and Huang (2004), real estate investment in urban areas has been associated with many fundamental issues, such as urbanization and arable land losses.”
Strategizing urbanism in the era of neoliberalization: State power reshuffling, land development and municipal finance in urbanizing China (2015, background): “Since the 1990s, urban land expansion has been characterised and indeed driven by a ‘fever’ of setting up numerous ‘development zones’ (kaifa qu) all over the country (Cartier, 2001; Lin, 2009a).”
Urbanization and informal development in China: Urban villages in Shenzhen (2009, background): “All land under the village’s control was owned collectively by the village, though families could be responsible for the cultivation of specific plots of land (F. Wu, 1999; 2002; 2004; Cartier, 2001; Zhu, 2004; 2005; Ho and Lin, 2003; 2004; Ding, 2004; Deng and Huang, 2004; Yeh, 2005).”
Decoding Urban Land Governance: State Reconstruction in Contemporary Chinese Cities (2009, background): “Elsewhere, many scholars focus on the unscrupulous land expropriation that leads to sprawling urban expansion (Cartier, 2001, T Zhang, 2000, Deng and Huang, 2004).”