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Factors affecting industrial land use efficiency in China: analysis from government and land market

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China’s economy has a typical characteristic that the government has a strong control of enormous productive resources, such as the land resources. Industrial land use is greatly influenced by institutional factors that refer to the market means and government control. But little empirical researches have focused on the performances of government incentives and land market in industrial land use efficiency (ILUE). Based on the geographically and temporally weighted regression model, this study reveals the spatial and temporal role of government incentives and land market on ILUE in China from 2007 to 2015. The results show that the ILUE has spatial and temporal differences in different cities, showing a significant increasing trend from 2007 to 2015. The land transfer fund, land added tax, and official promotion incentive have a negative impact on the ILUE of most cities in 2015. There are significant temporal and spatial variations in the effect of land marketization, land price, the proportion of stock land and the proportion of unused land on ILUE between cities. Finally, this paper provides some policy implications according to the results obtained.

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  1. "Hu line" is proposed by Hu Huanyong in 1935 to divide the population density of China. This line is from Aihun county in Heilongjiang Province to Tengchong city in Yunnan Province.

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This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (72074181); National Social Science Foundation of China (20CJY023); Project of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education of China (18XJC790014); Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province (2019JQ-350); Social Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2019S001); China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M653780). The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for their helpful suggestions and corrections on the earlier draft of our paper.

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Wang, Q., Wang, Y., Chen, W. et al. Factors affecting industrial land use efficiency in China: analysis from government and land market. Environ Dev Sustain 23, 10973–10993 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-01100-6

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