The Land Management Of Local Government, Spatial Competition And Hierarchy Of City Clusters In China

Hierarchy of urban agglomeration is an important factor in urban agglomerations competitiveness and sustainable urban development impact. Clarify and explore the hierarchy structure of Chinese Urban Agglomeration Development and forming mechanism, to fill the research gaps in the field, for promoting China’s urbanization process, improve the urban cluster development theory it has important theoretical and practical significance. In this paper, the new economic geography, urban economics and transition economics theory starting point to investigate the Intergovernmental competitive behavior under the background of Chinese urban agglomeration of land as the main means of business strategy, which was integrated into the new economic geography "center-periphery "theory (CP model), as well as city group" gathering force-diffusion of power "game analysis, by constructing" land management strategy-local Government competition-urban agglomeration hierarchy evolution "analytical framework, the use of R software, ArcGIS, Matlab and stata statistical software integrated use of spatial evolution of the graphical analysis, spatial econometric regression, dynamic panel regression, multiple linear regression method, the spatial pattern from the Chinese local government land under the city group background business characterization and spatial evolution morphological analysis, theoretical analysis and empirical analysis of Chinese urban agglomerations hierarchy of evolutionary mechanisms, five urban agglomerations hierarchy evolution heterogeneity and its influencing factors and other aspects of China to explore the dynamic mechanism of urban agglomeration spatial structure, to grasp the urban agglomeration hierarchy the internal laws of evolution, as put forward China’s urban agglomeration optimization mode hierarchy, provide theoretical and empirical basis.Theoretical study found that:(1) Due to the division of China’s land market, urban agglomeration in the outlying cities can manage and control land resources of its jurisdiction, to form their own competition through the land price, the regulation of land supply area and other land management policy advantages to attract resources, industry and labor to outlying urban mobility, so that the natural state should have due to the agglomeration level high first degree hierarchy "home market effect" and presented correspondingly weakened even less than the proliferation of power, to change the traditional "core-periphery "structure concentration and diffusion process and force the game pattern; while the face of competitive strategy periphery of the city, the center of the city to resist industry pressure, and the outflow of resources will take measures, thus the formation of the space center and the periphery of the city competition situation, while strengthening the level of competition makes the space of the first first city is gradually reduced, while the combined market has resonance effect makes the hierarchy of urban population tends to flatten; (2) outside the center for between these two types of cities, if the center urban land prices rise, not only led to reduce the number of manufacturing enterprises, but economic growth is not stagnant, but to maintain high economic growth, which means that labor productivity has been improved. Thus, the relative urban land prices increase, low value-added industries crowding caused by the city’s industrial transfer to the outskirts of the cities, as a result, the industry up the value chain from low to high-end industrial city it took place, or high value-added industries to replace the low value-added industries, and thus achieve industrial upgrading the city center, the city also relies on the periphery of land management to obtain the advantages of manufacturing output in line with their own interests demands increase, culminating in the inner city and urban agglomeration centers Since the periphery of urban land management functions of competition brought about division; (3) under the China-specific fiscal decentralization system and land management system, local governments in fiscal revenues and investment incentives competitive power, expand inter-local government competition, ie competition between cities. Faced with the pressure of competition, a single local government to use its monopoly of land resources as a starting point, the implementation of land management strategy, summarized as land finance and land transfer policy differentiation. At the same time, local governments across multiple regions of space under the system for investment, enhance the competitiveness of revenue based on the emergence of space-competitive conduct land management strategy, there is space for spillover effects and competitive effects of this kind of space Space competition and the role of cities together group hierarchy flattening trend formation.Positive findings:(1) the relative urban commercial and residential land price increases, will reduce the city’s industrial output relative, but the relative value of the service sector improved, and the rate of decrease than the industrial output amplitude, proved relatively higher prices for commercial and residential land industrial crowding exists, but services output there is a big positive role in promoting. Taking into account the industrial land strategy and commercial and residential land side so that the relevance of the policy, so that based on industrial land and residential land transfer between the two land-governmental business strategy competition, are able to expand so that the relative output value of the city, so as to form competitive advantage; the level of urban growth and economic growth (2) price of land transactions positively related to revenue growth in the city’s main commercial and residential land transfer benefits obtained through the contribution; however, land management for local public finance and economic importance between showing growth levels increased and then decreased after the first relationship, indicating that as the economic level in the latter part of the city constantly upgrading, the land will gradually reduce the importance of its public finances, the center of the city will gradually get rid of dependence land finance and to rely on other ways of new industries and new technologies to achieve economic growth; Room (3) local government based on the "revenue effect" land management policy exists spatial spillover effects, competition effects of space-based "investment effect" land management policy exists, this the presence of types of spatial effect, explains in Chinese special system background and path dependence constraint between local government land management space competitive strategy to promote China’s urban agglomeration hierarchy tend to flatten, and flattened the city hierarchy has its own rationale and meets heterogeneity (4) evolution mechanism of urban agglomeration hierarchy; realistic background of contemporary China’s economic development and the basic national conditions. Wherein each group between the eastern city of urban space competitive effects of land management policy based more on local governments to enhance revenue-driven, wherein the degree of competition in the order of the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and Beijing, Tianjin, so the eastern city group inside the city, in between the low supply of land and enhance the level of agglomeration economies, local governments consider more of the latter; and competitive effects of space inside the western city of group land management strategies, mainly from the local government to attract foreign investment drive, wherein the middle reaches of the Yangtze River the degree of competition is greater than the Chengdu-Chongqing urban Agglomeration city group, group of Midwest city local government to attract capital inflows, rely more on lowering tax rates and preferential land price and other means. On their formation mechanism of urban agglomeration hierarchy, flat trend characterized the eastern city group is mainly based on the business strategy to enhance competition on the land revenue; and flattening trend characterized in Midwest City Group is not obvious, and the central and western urban agglomeration the land between the business strategy is mainly based on government investment competition means power, but the space is not the level of competition for the services sector output and revenue is not obvious.