Economic Development and Agricultural Land Loss in the Pearl River Delta, China
Economic Development and Agricultural Land Loss in the Pearl River Delta, China
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DOI：
10.1016/s0197-3975(99)00013-2
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发表时间：
1999-09
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
A. Yeh;Xia Li
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作者：
A. Yeh;Xia Li
自1978年中国实行经济改革开放政策以来，珠江三角洲地区在过去二十年中发展迅速。伴随着这种发展的是城市和农村地区的景观迅速变化。近年来，由于城市发展，特别是炒卖土地而导致大量建筑地盘出现，令宝贵农地流失的情况非常严重。本文以广东省东莞市为例，分析了珠江三角洲经济发展与农地流失之间的关系。研究发现，在1990年代初，香港房地产繁荣导致珠江三角洲房地产繁荣，土地投机活动加剧了农地流失。珠江三角洲的市区扩展亦与其他经济因素有关，例如农村工业化、地方主义的兴起、香港的影响、交通改善，以及缺乏土地管理和监察制度等。迫切需要制定一项可持续的土地开发战略，以保护肥沃的农业用地，使其免受进一步的不必要损失，特别是土地投机造成的损失。
The Pearl River Delta is developing very rapidly in the last two decades since the adoption of economic reform and open-door policy of China in 1978. Concomitant to this development is the rapid change of landscape in both urban and rural areas. The loss of valuable agricultural land by the encroachment of urban development, especially massive construction sites from land speculation, is very severe recently. This paper examines the relationship between economic development and agricultural land loss in the Pearl River Delta, using Dongguan as a case study. It is found that agricultural land loss has been much aggravated by land speculation as a result of the property bloom in the Pearl River Delta that was induced by the property boom in Hong Kong in the early 1990s. The urban sprawl in the Pearl River Delta is also related to other economic factors, such as rural industrialization, rise of localism, influence from Hong Kong, transport improvement, and lack of land management and monitoring system. There is an urgent need to develop a sustainable land development strategy to protect the fertile agricultural land from further unnecessary losses, especially from land speculation.