TANG Weicheng, PENG Zhenwei, ZHANG Jingxiang

Keywords： industrial land supply; rural transformation; asset management; planning strategy; Jinlan Village in Yixing City

Abstract：

Despite the intensive implementation of national strategies and massive resource investments, rural areas still suffer from a deep-rooted dilemma of insufficient endogenous dynamics. Looking back on China’s rural development, the urban-rural dual system was built on the extraction and control of all types of economic factors in rural areas in the planned economy period, but its operation has been centered on the strict control of land elements during the market transition period. The upward transfer of land development rights and the blockage of industrial land supply become anchor points in shaping rural area’s confined and marginalized characteristics. Some local practices show that for rural areas with more non-agricultural economic opportunities, an effective supply of industrial land can assist villages in overcoming the shielding of external capital, while industrial land becomes a quality asset for integrating various types of inefficient resources and rebuilding the collective economy. Based on this logic, the villages can move into a positive cycle of “resource-asset-cash flow”. Finally, the paper suggests that changing the pattern of double marginalization in rural areas should be guided by the principles of autonomy, adaptability and creativity, and it provides an extended discussion on land and planning strategies.

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