Emerging Land Markets in Rural and Urban China: Policies and Practices

By S. Ho, G. Lin. The China Quarterly, 2003

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This article examines the evolution of China's land system in the past two decades. Since the early 1980s, China has altered its land use arrangements and introduced new regulations to manage land use changes. In the process the administrative allocation of land to users has been transformed into a complex hierarchical system of primary and secondary markets for land use rights. The changes in China's land system were adopted primarily for two reasons: to develop land markets to allocate land more efficiently and to protect agricultural land. An analysis of available data suggests that the development of land markets is still at an early stage, that the conversion of land to non-agricultural use continues but at a slower pace, and that illegal land use is pervasive. The article concludes with an assessment of the new land system and a discussion of some likely future changes.

Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Political Science and International Relations, Soil Science

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Government intervention and land misallocation: Evidence from China (2017, background): “However, state-owned land in urban China is controlled by local governments (Ho & Lin, 2003),which monopolize the land supply and landmarket through theirmonopoly rights to supply land for urban use and to lease land to developers (Deng, 2003; Lin & Ho, 2005).”
Land supply, pricing and local governments' land hoarding in China (2014, background): “First, rural land was sold directly or leased for non-agricultural development without official approval; second, urban land users privately transferred or leased land that had been allocated to them free-of-charge to other users without approval (Benjamin, 2009; Ho and Lin, 2003).”
Dilemmas of Local Governance under the Development Zone Fever in China: A Case Study of the Suzhou Region (2008, background): “Furthermore, the practice of land use regulation as well as local governance in China also arouses extensive discussions (Ho, 2005; Ho and Lin, 2003; Ho and Spoor, 2006; Hsing, 2006; Lin, 2001; Lin and Ho, 2005; Wong and Zhao, 1999; Wu, 2002; Zhu, 2004, 2005).1 Following the…”
State Misallocation and Housing Prices: Theory and Evidence from China (2011, unknown): “Pr(mit = 1) = g(| ∆i | +β2Xit + τt + it) (14)”
Economic transition, spatial development and urban land use efficiency in the Yangtze River Delta, China (2017, background): “Land system reforms have changed the pattern of urban development from central government-controlled to market-oriented (Deng, 2003; Ho & Lin, 2003).”
Strategic interaction in local governments’ industrial land supply: Evidence from China (2017, background): “The user rights of urban land are allowed to be transferred until an amendment was made to the constitution in 1988, which has initialised the urban land market (Ho and Lin, 2003; Lin and Ho, 2005; Liu et al., 1998).”
The Chengzhongcun Land Market in China: Boon or Bane? — A Perspective on Property Rights (2008, background): “The informal land market booms in conditions where the legality of transactions is unclear either because the law is vague or because they are not covered by existing laws (Ho and Lin, 2003).”
Urban land marketization in China: Central policy, local initiative, and market mechanism (2016, background): “…their shares in land supply are quite limited 0.56% and 0.01%, respectively, in 2010) and their prices are not comparable with hose of land conveyance (Ho and Lin, 2003; MLRC, 2011), land renting to reformed tate enterprises and pooling of land as enterprise shares are eliminated from our nalysis.”