Community-based rural residential land consolidation and allocation can help to revitalize hollowed villages in traditional agricultural areas of China: Evidence from Dancheng County, Henan Province

Construction land expansion and cultivated land protection in urbanizing China: Insights from national land surveys, 1996–2006

A review of the literature on expropriation violence in China shows that most analysts explain violence instrumentally, as a means by which competing actors attempt to capture, redistribute or defend income from land development, an indicator of different spatial political ecologies, or a catalyst of villagers' politicization. But these explanations of violence assume (1) antagonism between rational, unitary collective actors and (2) that violence is of limited temporal duration, spatial and social reach. This paper builds on Escobar's proposition that violence is constitutive of development, to argue for an alternative view: violence authorizes and constitutes an inclusive, ongoing project of urbanization in China. Violence authorizes development, because the rural spaces surrounding cities and towns are characterized as institutionally insecure, disorderly, economically under-productive and incompatible with modernity. It comprises development, because it involves the forced urban improvement of the nat...

Violence as development: land expropriation and China's urbanization

There exists great potential of rural land consolidation in China due to the aggravated hollowed villages against the background of rapid rural-urban transformation. The paper aims to investigate the potential of rural land consolidation within four urbanization scenarios: Complete urbanization, Semi-urbanization, Urbanization in batches and prospective urbanization in 2020. Research findings show that, (1) the potentials of rural land consolidation in complete and semi-urbanization are 809.89×104 hm2 and 699.19×104 hm2 respectively while rural consolidation rates are 50.70% and 43.77%. As for the urbanization in batches and urbanization in 2020, the potentials are 757.89×104 hm2 and 992.16×104 hm2. (2) Beside Tibet and Ningxia, rural consolidation rates in most provinces are between 40% and 60%, and the land increase rates are between 3% and 12%. Significant correlation between potential of rural land consolidation and the degree of hollowed villages is also found. (3) Evident differences of potential of rural land consolidation exist across provinces. Rural consolidation rates in the East and Central provinces are higher than that in the West provinces. Villages in the developed areas have higher consolidation rates than those in the less developed areas, and villages in the plain areas tend to have higher consolidation rates than those in the mountainous areas.

Ping Sun

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Interest distribution in the process of coordination of urban and rural construction land in China