Abstract
With the rapid progress of urbanization in China, its industrial structure presents a diversified development tendency and land resources are becoming scarcer. Focusing on the relationship between land use and industrial structures is conducive to promoting the intensive use of land resources and realizing sustainable socio-economic development. This study selected the city of Yichun as a case of the average level of development of Jiangxi Province, south China. We applied the structural change rate and deviation coefficient indices, combined with mathematical statistical methods, to explore the time dynamic correlation characteristics between land use and industrial structures in this region from 2000 to 2017. The results show that: (1) The evolution of land structures lags behind the growth of the gross domestic product (GDP); (2) secondary industries are predominant in Yichun's industrial structure, with tertiary industries growing rapidly and the proportion of primary industries declining—and therefore, the level of economic development of this region is in an “intermediate” stage; (3) there is a significant positive correlation between industrial structures and land use structures, and the latter lags behind the former. On this basis, we summarize several problems and propose corresponding measures: (1) Strengthen the macro-control of land; (2) improve the allocation and utilization of land resources; (3) deepen the concept of intensive land use.
Highlights
China's urbanization process is accelerating, various industrial structures are developing and evolving, and the demand for land is rising with population growth
As a kind of spatial resource in urbanization development, land resources are obviously limited in quantity, and the contradiction between land supply and demand is prominent, which has become a bottleneck in the construction process of many cities [1]
The intensive use of land resources plays a vital role in improving the level and quality of urbanization, and is an important way to realize the healthy, orderly, and sustainable development of society—in particular, exploring the rational use of land has become a common concern of society
Summary
China's urbanization process is accelerating, various industrial structures are developing and evolving, and the demand for land is rising with population growth. As a kind of spatial resource in urbanization development, land resources are obviously limited in quantity, and the contradiction between land supply and demand is prominent, which has become a bottleneck in the construction process of many cities [1]. Lu et al [8] first put forward the concept of "land urbanization," and suggested that an "aggressive" urbanization phenomenon has appeared in recent decades in China. This manifests that the rate of population urbanization is too fast, the urban spatial construction layout appears disorderly or even out of control, and the quality and sustainable development of urbanization are ignored. Recent studies have shown that in some regions, urbanization lags behind [9, 10], and urbanization per
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