Methodological Issues
this chapter includes a discussion about the data collection and methodology that will be applied to each research objective. Section 4.1 provides a detailed research design that targets each research objective and helps answer the proposed research quest
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Contemporary China’s Land Use Policy The Link Policy
Contemporary China’s Land Use Policy
Long Cheng
Contemporary China’s Land Use Policy The Link Policy
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Long Cheng Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, China
ISBN 978-981-15-8330-8 ISBN 978-981-15-8331-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8331-5
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To my beloved parents, Mr. Cheng Bin and Ms. Chen Xiuzhen
Preface
Since the launch of China’s economic reform and the openness policy in the late 1970s, Chinese cities have witnessed significant growth and sprawl, resulting in a large amount of farmland being converted for urban construction. Given the need to protect farmland for agricultural production as well as provide land for urban development, the central government proposed an innovative, top-down land institutional reform in 2005, termed “Link the increase in urban construction land with the decrease in rural construction land” (referred to hereafter as the “Link Policy”). Under this scheme, farmers are relocated from scattered and spacious villages to concentrated communities while their original homesteads are reclaimed into farmland. This policy calls for land exchanges where local government can offer more land quotas for urban construction while retaining the total amount of farmland. Previous studies have shed light on land consolidation and resettlement projects in developing countries, while there has been limited analysis and commentary focusing on China’s Link Policy, especially i
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