Managing Urban Land in China: The Emerging Legal Framework and Its Role in Development

Authors

Mark T. Kremzner

Abstract

This Article examines the emerging legal framework for urban land management in China with reference to several perspectives on the role of the state in economic development: modernization, dependency, and statism. A key function of the urban land management and planning regime in the People's Republic of China is to promote economic development. Similarly, law and legal institutions in the reform era are used as an instrument to secure development policies. China's urban land use laws have the purpose and effect of channeling capital into land development and urban renewal projects through the commodification of land use rights. While the central state has achieved some of its development objectives, it has also experienced setbacks and witnessed an erosion of its control over land uses.

First Page

611

Recommended Citation

Mark T. Kremzner, Managing Urban Land in China: The Emerging Legal Framework and Its Role in Development, 7 Pac. Rim L & Pol'y J. 611 (1998).
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