Abstract
This paper corrected the long-term misunderstanding of the land utilization efficiency concept. The Undesirable-Window-DEA model, Dagum Gini coefficient, and spatial panel autoregressive model with fixed effect were used to explore the spatial heterogeneity and influencing factors of urban construction land utilization efficiency in China from 2004 to 2016. The results show the following: (1) China’s overall utilization of urban construction land is still at a low level. It decreased first and then rose, with a “flat V-shaped” evolution pattern. (2) During the study period, the Gini coefficient of urban construction land utilization efficiency for all provinces decreased first, then rose, and decreased again. The utilization efficiency Gini coefficients within provincial grouping were eastern region (0.063), central region (0.101), and western region (0.128). The Gini coefficients within provincial grouping were central versus western (0.121), eastern versus western (0.161), and eastern versus central (0.168). For the contribution to overall inequality of land utilization efficiency, the inequality within groups contributes the most (57.57%), and the inequality between groups accounts for about 25.62%. The overall efficiency is improved, with an evolution pattern of “difference narrowed–differences expanded–difference narrowed.” (3) “economic development,” “industrial structure,” “research development investment,” and “land urbanization level” have significantly positive effect on urban construction land utilization efficiency, while other factors have a negative effect, including “urbanization level of population,” “urban population density,” “cultivated field resources level,” “government influence level,” “land urbanization level,” and “financial dependence level.” This study could provide theoretical support for the implementation of cross-provincial/regional urban construction land quotes reallocation and differential construction land management policies.
Highlights
Under the background of increasing resource and energy constraints and environmental constraints, the traditional development path of combining excessive consumption with low efficiency of land resources has become unsustainable
Improving the efficiency of urban land use has become an inherent requirement for promoting regional sustainable development [1, 2]. e improvement of land use efficiency has a sustainable development effect on the transformation of industrial structure [3]. e urban construction land quotas of province or region in China are allocated by the central government under the national total amount control principle
The urban construction land utilization efficiency shows an upward trend. e national average land utilization efficiency was 0.777 in 2004 and 0.866 in 2016, with a total increase of 11.45%. e overall trend can be summarized into two phases: from 2004 to 2012, the national average land utilization efficiency showed a fluctuating downward trend, reached the bottom point (0.771) in 2012, and rebounded to 0.866 in 2016. is dynamic change is a little different from the existing literature
Summary
Under the background of increasing resource and energy constraints and environmental constraints, the traditional development path of combining excessive consumption with low efficiency of land resources has become unsustainable. E urban construction land quotas of province or region in China are allocated by the central government under the national total amount control principle. Such allocation operation ignores the different economic development levels and uneven natural resources distribution among provinces [4], combined with the lack of provincial-level construction land quote trading market, and legal provisions for the prohibition of interprovincial circulation of construction land quotas for nonstate major projects. E existing literature mainly concentrated on theory research and evaluation of urban construction land utilization efficiency. A few of them combined spatial differences in urban construction land utilization efficiency with China’s existing urban construction land quota allocation methods and management systems but still limitedly explain on practical issues
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