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LUCC PhD seminar with Shu Zhang of Law

The land market in China has long been formed on the basis of the ownership system which segments the urban and rural land. The free circulation of Collective land for construction is in principle forbidden, which results in the structural shortage of construction land between urban and rural areas. To overcome the difficulties caused by the improper supply and demand of construction land, China began to explore the ways to adjust the land resource allocation by market means. Under this policy, Zeng Jian Gua Gou Policy has been created. It links newly added cropland quotas to the amount of land used for urban and rural construction, with the aim of achieving efficient use of land and integrated urban-rural development, the core is that if a region is approved to increase the urban construction land, another region must correspondingly increase the cultivated land area, and finally achieve a reasonable land use layout. Many areas in China have conducted practices under Zeng Jian Gua Gou Policy, but they are still in the exploratory stage and have not yet formed a model that can be used for reference and replication. It is urgent to improve the operation mode and legislate to protect it. Taking Chongqing, Chengdu and Yiwu as examples, this paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of these practices being implemented in China. By using Marxist theory of ground-rent, this paper argues that the practices in China have not fully met the requirements of market transactions so far, because the practices in China are still the exchange between lands led by the government rather than the transfer of rights dominated by the market with money as the medium. Accordingly, this paper puts forward some suggestions on the improvement of the operation mode of Zeng Jian Gua Gou in China. they are still in the exploratory stage and have not yet formed a model that can be used for reference and replication. It is urgent to improve the operation mode and legislate to protect it.