Abstract
In China, a new urban-rural land trading policy known as Zengjian Guagou (i.e., “bundling up addition with reduction” – abbreviated as BAR hereafter), which was officially enacted by the Ministry of Land and Resources in 2006, had profound implications on urban and rural land use pattern. The endorsement of this policy represented a bold move in exploring new institutional mechanisms for land-use right transfer between urban and rural in China. Since then nearly one million villages have applied the policy. However, due to differences of local governance, implementation, reimbursement, consideration of residents’ willingness, etc., the outcomes of applying the policy are quite diversified. After introducing the background of the land trading policy (BAR), the paper focuses on the discussion of three different models in applying this policy, their implementation mechanism, and diversified outcomes in different regions of China. The last section proposes policy suggestions for improving the BAR policy at the macro- and meso-levels.
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Ye, Y., Qin, B. (2015). The Diversified Models and Outcomes of Applying the Urban-Rural Land Trading Policy in China. In: Wong, TC., Han, S., Zhang, H. (eds) Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15257-8_15
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