Hualou Long

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of Huantai county in Shandong province in China is presented, where the authors examine the "increasing vs. decreasing balance" land-use policy, which seeks to balance increases in urban construction land with a reduction in rural construction land.

TL;DR: It is pointed out that, given the rapidity of the observed changes, it is critical that additional studies be undertaken to evaluate these suggested policies, focusing on what their effects might be in this region, and how these might be implemented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the potential factors influencing the building of a new countryside in China, and provided a critical discussion of the problems and implications concerning carrying out this campaign, from a geographical perspective.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the rural restructuring in China affected by the allocation and management of critical resources including human resource, land resource and capital, by establishing a theoretical framework of "elements-structure function" of rural territorial system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the dynamic patterns of land use in Tianjin Binhai New Area experienced rapid urbanization, using high-resolution Landsat TM (Thematic Mapper) data in 1985, 1995, 2005 and 2010, and socioeconomic data from both research institutes and government departments, and assessed the changes of ecosystem services value (ESV) by drawing a connection between the observed land use dynamics and the evaluation of ESV, based on the latest research of Costanza et al.