Spatiotemporal Assessment of Land Marketization and Its Driving Forces for Sustainable Urban–Rural Development in Shaanxi Province in China

Xindong Wei,Kangli Lin,Pingping Luo,Jie Yang,Jian Zhang,Ning Wang

doi:10.3390/su13147755

Abstract

In recent years, market-oriented allocation of land has been promoted to support rural revitalization and urban–rural integrated development. To follow the path of sustainable development, it is necessary to improve the efficiency of resource utilization and to rationally allocate and use resources on the premise of ensuring the sustainable use of resources. This study aims to measure the degree of land marketization in Shaanxi Province, China during the period 2008–2019 and analyze its driving forces. The methods used include Gray Relation Analysis and Hot Spot Analysis. The MK trend method was used to analyze the average area of land acquired through Bidding–Listing–Auction (B-L-A), protocol, and allocation methods. The results show that the land marketization level in Shaanxi declined from 2008 to 2014 and fluctuated upwards from 2014 to 2019. In addition, B-L-A transactions increased across the province. There was little spatial heterogeneity of land marketization, but southern Shaanxi had less land marketization than the other key areas. Urbanization, non-agricultural output, and foreign direct investment were found to be the main driving factors of land marketization, while the influence of fixed asset investment and per capita disposable income declined each year. Based on these findings, we suggest that there is a need for land management reforms and urbanization efforts to encourage land marketization in southern Shaanxi. Further, we suggest that northern Shaanxi would benefit from optimizing the land use structure and focusing on the energy land market. This study also provides theoretical support for realizing the reform of the marketization of national land elements, the healthy operation of urban land marketization, and sustainable urban and rural development.

Highlights

∑i=1 LQi In Formula (4), LM is the degree of land marketization; i is the method of land transfer (i = B-L-A, protocol, auction); LQi is the number of standard transactions of state-owned land use right transfer in the ith way; and Wi is the corresponding market weight
This study examined the temporal and spatial succession of land marketization based on spatial autocorrelation analysis
Foreign direct investment, non-agricultural output value ratio, per capita disposable income, fixed asset investment, and urbanization rate were taken as influencing factors, and the sorting mechanism of GRA was applied to measure the impact of different factors to understand the land marketization system

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Introduction

The reasonable development of the land market, as a provider of various activities in the city, can play an important role in the sustainable development of the city and promote the development of the city’s economy. In China, the political system and the sharp focus on rapid economic development have led to the governments exercising strong control over key elements such as land resources [6,7,8]. Shaanxi Province governs 10 cities and 107 counties (see Table 1) and is nected to Inner Mongolia in the north, Hubei and Chongqing in the south, Gansu an connected to Inner Mongolia in the north, Hubei and Chongqing in the south, Gansu and Ningxia in the west, and Shanxi in the east, making it a region with many geographic.

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