Temporal-Spatial Evolution Patterns of Population Urbanization and Land Urbanization in China

In recent years, it has become common practice for Chinese local governments to inject land assets into financing platform companies and use them as mortgage or credit guarantees to obtain bank loans and issue urban investment bonds, which is known as “land financialization”. This study investigates the impact and mechanism of land financialization on the uncoordinated development of population urbanization and land urbanization in China. Theoretical analysis and empirical analysis results based on the data of prefecture-level cities in China from 2006 to 2015 demonstrate that land financialization by local governments is a significant cause of the uncoordinated development of population urbanization and land urbanization, and the pressure of urban economic development will strengthen this negative impact. Extended analysis further reveals that in areas where population urbanization and land urbanization are uncoordinated, land financialization, while promoting urban spatial expansion, will lower land use efficiency and have an inverted U-shaped influence on economic growth due to a weak agglomeration effect. The above conclusion shows that urbanization driven by debt-based investment is unsustainable. Efforts should be made to establish a financialization system that propels sound urbanization and to build a stable input linkage between land financialization and the supply of urban public service.

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Research on Population-Land-Industry Relationship Pattern in Underdeveloped Regions: Gansu Province of Western China as an Example

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11082434 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (8) ◽

pp. 2434 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Libang Ma ◽

Meimei Chen ◽

Xinglong Che ◽

Fang Fang

Keyword(s):

Three Dimensional ◽

Gansu Province ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Western China ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Economic Changes ◽

Industry Relationship ◽

Population Urbanization ◽

Urbanization Pattern ◽

Land Urbanization

Urbanization is a three-dimensional process including population, spatial, and economic changes. The coordination among the three dimensions is the key to sustainable urban development. Here, a population-land-industry index system of urbanization is constructed, and the degree of coupling and mutual feedback among population urbanization, land urbanization, and industrial urbanization are analyzed. The urbanization patterns and their spatiotemporal variation are identified. The results show that: (1) Population and land urbanization proceeded slowly in Gansu Province and their trends were similar, whereas industry urbanization proceeded faster than the two. From a spatial perspective, population, land, and industrial urbanization levels (PUi, LUi, and IUi) decreased from southwest to northeast. The coupling degree of population, land, and industrial urbanization increased from 1998 to 2016 and showed significant spatial variation, decreasing from northwest to southeast. (2) Population, land, and industry all play a role in urbanization. PUi was significantly and positively correlated with LUi. However, there was no significant correlation between IUi and PUi and between IUi and LUi. The improvement of PUi, LUi, and IUi effectively promoted the coupling degree of population, land, and industrial urbanization. (3) Seven urbanization patterns were identified in Gansu Province and evaluation units with the same urbanization pattern tended to be spatially close to each other. IUi > PUi > LUi (IX), IUi > LUi > PUi (X) and IUi > PUi = LUi (XI) were the dominant urbanization patterns. There was crisscross distribution of various urbanization patterns and, thus, it was not easy to observe the agglomeration center of certain urbanization pattern. (4) The urbanization pattern of the same evaluation unit changed with time. This change was mainly reflected in the change of relationship between population and land urbanization. Urbanization pattern changed more significantly in 2008–2016 than in 1998–2008. The changes were dominant by IX→XI, X→XI, XI→IX, and XI→X.

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Exploring the Interactive Development between Population Urbanization and Land Urbanization: Evidence from Chongqing, China (1998–2016)

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10061741 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 1741 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Yingchao Lin ◽

Yongle Li ◽

Zhili Ma

Keyword(s):

Population Urbanization ◽

Land Urbanization

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Urbanization and Economic Growth in China—An Empirical Research Based on VAR Model

International Journal of Economics and Finance ◽

10.5539/ijef.v9n3p210 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 210 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Li Yang Zi

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Series Data ◽

Var Model ◽

Resident Population ◽

Urbanization Rate ◽

Population Urbanization ◽

Positive Effect ◽

Land Urbanization

This paper takes the relation between urbanization and economic growth in China as the object of study. By using the time series data ranging from 1982 to 2014 and building VAR model, it analyzes, respectively, the dynamic relations between economic growth and the urbanization rate of resident population, the urbanization rate of land and the quality of urbanization. The paper comes up with the following conclusions: there exists a unidirectional causality between resident population urbanization and China’s economic growth, the former promoting the long-term growth of the latter; unidirectional causality also exists between land urbanization rate and China’s economic growth. However, different from resident population urbanization rate, it is the economic growth of China that promotes the increase of land urbanization rate and the increase of land urbanization rate cannot promote China’s economic growth; the relation between the quality of urbanization and China’s economic growth is a two-way causality. The improvement of urbanization quality has a cumulative positive effect on the economic growth of China, while economic growth has a negative effect on the improvement of urbanization quality in the short term and positive effect on economic growth in the long term.

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Evaluation of Urbanization Coordination Degrees in Gansu Province

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.295-298.2486 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 295-298 ◽

pp. 2486-2492 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pei Ji Shi ◽

Li Chen ◽

Hai Long Liu ◽

Hai Meng Liu

Keyword(s):

Function Method ◽

Gansu Province ◽

Coordinated Development ◽

Degree Function ◽

Different Characteristics ◽

Population Urbanization ◽

Land Urbanization ◽

Coordination Degree

This paper divides urbanization into four parts, population urbanization、economic urbanization、land urbanization and social urbanization, and then calculates the coordination degree of urbanization by using TOPSIS and coordination degree function method. The results show that,(1)Urbanization in Gansu Province has experienced two courses.(2) In 2010, the urbanization within Gansu Province could be divided into four types, population-oriented、land-oriented、economic-oriented and population - economic-oriented.(3) Only 4 cities’ urbanization tended to coordinated development from 2001 to 2010 , it is declined for others.(4)The urbanization coordination difference is significant, and coordination shows different characteristics.

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Coupling Coordinated Development and Exploring Its Influencing Factors in Nanchang, China: From the Perspectives of Land Urbanization and Population Urbanization

Land ◽

10.3390/land8120178 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (12) ◽

pp. 178 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tiangui Lv ◽

Li Wang ◽

Xinmin Zhang ◽

Hualin Xie ◽

Hua Lu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Industrial Structure ◽

Economic Transition ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Coordinated Development ◽

Coordination Model ◽

Per Capita ◽

Negative Impacts ◽

Population Urbanization ◽

Land Urbanization ◽

Coordination Degree

The coordination relationship between land urbanization and population urbanization is crucial for achieving sustainable development under economic transition. Moreover, the balance between land urbanization and population urbanization is essential to guarantee the urbanization process of an entire city. This paper empirically analyzes the interaction between land urbanization and population urbanization in Nanchang from 2002 to 2017 based on the coupling coordination model (CCM). The impacts of the coordination degree on coordinated development are quantified by multivariate linear regression (MLR). The results show the following: (1) The indices of land urbanization and population urbanization in Nanchang showed an upward trend, and therefore the coordination degree in Nanchang increased significantly from 2002 to 2017. (2) The coordinated development of urbanization underwent two stages: disordered and moderately disordered. (3) The urban population proportion and the supporting capability of agricultural production had a positive impact on coordinated development. Meanwhile, the results also show that per capita education expenditures and the per capita public green area had negative impacts on the coordination degree, while economic development and the urban industrial structure were positive contributors to the coordination degree. Finally, this paper proposes that policies should be formulated to achieve coordinated development of urbanization. It can be concluded that the results regarding coordinated development of urbanization can help decision makers formulate effective measures to achieve coordinated development in the future.

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