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7. Balance Through Agglomeration: A “Third Path” to Balanced Development Between Urban and Rural Areas and Among Regions

verfasst von : Zhao Chen, Ming Lu

Erschienen in: Toward Balanced Growth with Economic Agglomeration

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

It seems that China only has two strategies to achieve urban-rural and regional development. One is to balance development with policies biased toward rural and inland areas by restricting land supply in coastal areas and labor transfer to eastern regions. This is considered the path of “balanced development”. The other strategy is to continue to advance economic agglomeration in coastal areas by relaxing control over labor flow and land supply there. This is considered the path of “the pursuit of efficiency”. It is generally believed balanced development and pursuit of efficiency are incompatible methods of achieving balanced development.

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Fußnoten
1
In reality, this is called interregional land quota transfer of cultivated land for construction. The Ministry of Land and Resources issued an urgent notice to forbid such kind of land quota transfer cross-province in July 2008. Local government is allowed to convert more agricultural land into non-agricultural usage only if another local government within the same province has increased its amount of agricultural land according to the Land Administration Law and the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Deepening Improvement and Rectification of Land Market and Implementing Strict Land Administration. See the report in Liberation Daily on July 17, 2008, for details.
 
2
As a matter of fact, no conclusion is drawn on whether such protection policies really helped to increase employment opportunities for urban residents.
 
3
Take Shanghai as an example. According to the report in the Liberation Daily on February 27, 2008, the non-registered population accounted for 25.79 % of the permanent resident population in 2007.
 
4
See Chen and Lu (2008) for detailed theoretical analysis.
 
5
If the urban-rural income gap is defined as a proxy variable of an overall income gap, the relationship between the urban-rural income gap and economic growth also provides insights to help us understand the relationship between income gap and economic growth. See Chap. 6 for details.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Balance Through Agglomeration: A “Third Path” to Balanced Development Between Urban and Rural Areas and Among Regions
verfasst von
Zhao Chen
Ming Lu
Copyright-Jahr
2016
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47412-9_7