TY  - BOOK
AU  - Qiren Zhou
PY  - 2023
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781433190537
TI  - Urban and Rural China
DO  - 10.3726/b18629
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1224052
N2  - Following years of investigation and research on the changes of China’s land system, the author discusses the evolution of urbanization and rural land system reform in China, arguing that the shackles of institutional arrangements, especially the dual track of the urban-rural system, hinder the free flow of resource elements, creating different property rights for rural or urban people and leading to an extremely unbalanced development of urban and rural China. However, China’s incremental reform experience began in the countryside and from there encircled the cities. In order to attract foreign capital for industrial development, land auction opened a prelude of land marketization, but the market has long been for urban land transaction only. The trend of urbanization, the pursuit of freedom and equality by the people, and the changes in relative land price must trigger changes in the institutional framework and pry open the doors to the market bit by bit. Local experimental policy tools, such as land-people-industries agglomeration and urban-rural linkages, benefit both rural and urban, market and state, and in a certain degree realize the collective land transaction. In urban-rural China, general property rights, especially the rights to transfer, must be redefined, and the rule of law is needed to contain coercive power and bring the activities of most people into a legal framework.
KW  - Urban and Rural China, Zhou Qiren, Urbanization, State and Market, Urban-Rural Dual Track System, Allocation of Land Resources, Land System Reform, Property Right, Rights to Transfer, Urban Rural Linkage, Land Use Regulation, Land Right Delineation
LA  - English
ER  -