Land-use Change and Socio-economic Driving Forces of Rural Settlement in China from 1996 to 2005  

作　　者：SONG Wei CHEN Baiming ZHANG Ying 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences [2]University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

出　　处：《Chinese Geographical Science》2014年第5期511-524,共14页中国地理科学（英文版）

基　　金：Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41001108);China Clean Development Mechanism Fund(No.2031202400003)

摘　　要：While urbanization has accelerated, the rural population in China has started decreasing in recent years. However, the expansion of rural settlement has not been sufficiently curbed. The questions of why this has happened and who has driven the land-use change(LUC) of rural settlement in China have aroused great interests among researchers. In this paper, it is suggested that population is not always a positive driving force for the LUC of rural settlement in China. Furthermore, socio-economic driving forces other than urbanization, population and industrialization are analyzed. On a national scale, the major driving forces are the per-capita rural housing area and the cultivated land area. On a regional scale, the main driving forces in the eastern China are the house-building capacity of rural households and the per-capita rural housing area; while in the central China, the main driving forces are rural housing investment, the proportion of primary industry employees in the rural working population, and the cultivated land area. For the western China, the main driving forces are rural register population and cultivated land area.While urbanization has accelerated, the rural population in China has started decreasing in recent years. However, the expan- sion of rural settlement has not been sufficiently curbed. The questions of why this has happened and who has driven the land-use change （LUC） of rural settlement in China have aroused great interests among researchers. In this paper, it is suggested that population is not always a positive driving force for the LUC of rural settlement in China. Furthermore, socio-economic driving forces other than urbanization, population and industrialization are analyzed. On a national scale, the major driving forces are the per-capita rural housing area and the cultivated land area. On a regional scale, the main driving forces in the eastern China are the house-building capacity of rural households and the per-capita rural housing area; while in the central China, the main driving forces are rural housing investment, the proportion of primary industry employees in the rural working population, and the cultivated land area. For the western China, the main driving forces are rural register population and cultivated land area.

关 键 词：land-use change （LUC） rural settlement driving force land institution China 

分 类 号：F301.2[经济管理—产业经济] F301.3