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Fallacy of “Returning Right and Endowing Power”: A Reaction to Zhou Qiren’s Views on Chengdu’s Reform in Its Land System(PDF)

《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]

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2013年04期
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Title:
Fallacy of “Returning Right and Endowing Power”: A Reaction to Zhou Qiren’s Views on Chengdu’s Reform in Its Land System
Author(s):
HE Xue-feng
Keywords:
returning right and endowing power land system coordinated planning of urban and rural areas land differential revenue
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Abstract:
In a recently-published lengthy treatise, Professor Zhou Qiren’s team summarizes Chengdu’s experience in coordinated planning of urban and rural land reform as “returning right to farmers and endowing them with power”. Contrary to such an observation, we argue that the essence of Chengdu’s coordinating urban and rural land development lies in the following fact: the project is carried out within the framework of the existing land system; thanks to tremendous financial support from land transfer, the government can lead and promote the rapid economic development and urban expansion; the improved urban structure in return enhances the city’s ability to promote economic growth, so that a huge economic energy gets released. Part of this economic energy is projected onto the immovable land, so differential land rent emerges to meet the needs of the urban expansion and development. This enables suburban rural land to produce a value-added income, which is much higher than the non-farm use of the land designated for agricultural purposes. Thus a virtuous circle comes into being in the rapid economic development and urban expansion, which will make it possible to facilitate the historic mission of China’s urbanization.

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