Abstract
Free trade zones represent an important system innovation space to realize economic agglomeration advantages with high-level openings. However, its evaluation of land intensive use has not received enough attention. The goal of this paper is to build a land use performance evaluation index system in line with the development trend of industrial economy and the characteristics of mixed land use in the free trade zones. An evaluation index system is constructed based on the three factors of land use status, land use efficiency and pilot free trade zone influence. Using the Delphi method and the entropy method, an empirical evaluation of the intensive land use level in the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone is conducted. The results show the following: (1) integrating new indicators such as the free trade zone influence, social and ecological benefits into the evaluation index system show a characteristic and innovative land use evaluation; (2) in terms of the level of intensive land use, the Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone has the highest intensity, followed by the Yangshan Free Trade Port Zone, and the Pudong Airport Comprehensive Free Trade Zone has the lowest intensity; and (3) development time, degree of land use, differences in leading functions, industrial land structures, and the diversification of employment structures are important factors that influence the differences in the levels of intensive land use in the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone. This study also expands the performance evaluation of industrial land to the performance evaluation of construction land and provides references for industrial transformation and urban renewal of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone.
Highlights
The establishment of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone (SPFTZ) is a major strategic choice for complying with new trends in global economic governance, actively building new rules of international trade and investment, and striving to create new advantages in major international economic competition
An evaluation index system of land intensive utilization is constructed based on three factors: land use status, land use efficiency, and pilot free trade area influence
The land intensive utilization of the three major functional areas (WFTZ, Yangshan Free Trade Port Zone (YFTPZ), and PACFTZ) was evaluated by means of quantitative evaluation index. This evaluation index system had the following characteristics: (1) in addition to industrial land, land for commercial services, public administration and public services were considered; (2) the evaluation index system gives consideration to the comprehensive benefits such as economic benefit, social benefit and ecological benefit; and (3) evaluation indices reflecting the influence of the pilot free trade zones were added
Summary
The establishment of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone (SPFTZ) is a major strategic choice for complying with new trends in global economic governance, actively building new rules of international trade and investment, and striving to create new advantages in major international economic competition. It represents a realistic need for exploring China’s new path of opening up to the outside; fostering new industries, ways of doing business and new modes; building a new platform of cooperation and development with other countries; broadening the space of economic growth. The evaluation results of intensive land use in development zones are extremely rich, and such studies are mainly based on the “Evaluation Procedures for Intensive
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