Research On Farmland Resource Loss In The Process Of Farmland Conversion In Guanzhong Region

Urbanization and industrialization is a necessary stage of the socio-economicdevelopment and the conversion of agricultural land is an inevitable result of urbanizationand industrialization process. Under current institutional framework of China, thegovernment play a dominant role in the process of converting farmland into building land,and the market mechanism still does not play a basic role in the configuration of the landresources, besides, the non-market value of farmland (such as the ecological value, socialvalues) is ignored by people for long time, so excessive loss of farmland in conversionprocess appears. Guanzhong Region is not only the economic core area of Shaanxi Provincebut also the largest industry, commerce, education and culture base in the Western Region,and the speed of its economic development is very fast in recent years, as a result, thephenomenon of farmland conversion is also very severe. This paper take the GuanzhongRegion as a study case, to analyze its spatial and temporal differences, farmland excessiveloss ⅰ caused by market failure and excessive loss ⅱ caused by government failure in theprocess of farmland conversion. It finds that the quantity of farmand conversion inGuanzhong is quite serious, and it is not balanced in the six cities. At last, this paper comesup with some policy recommendations in order to provide a reference for the localgovernment to control the level of farmland conversion reasonably to improve the efficiencyof allocating land resources. This article consists of the following sections:Chapter one: Introduction. This section mainly introduces the research background, theresearch purpose and significance, research framework and methods, and also makes aliterature review of home and abroad on this issue.Chapter two: theoretical foundation of the research. First, it analyze connotation, theinternal mechanism and the ways and means of farmland conversion, then it introduce theclassification of farmland values and their assessment methods, the types of farmlandresource loss in the farmland conversion process, at last it gives a brief illustration of theimpact of farmland conversion.Chapter three: the spatial and temporal differences of farmland conversion inGuanzhong area. It gives an overview of the natural and socio-economic conditions about Guanzhong, and apply two indicators-conversion rate and intensity of farmland to analyze thetime trend of farmland conversion, and apply farmland conversion imbalance index toanalyze spatial differences of farmland conversion in Guanzhong.Chapter four: calculating farmland resource loss in Guanzhong area. It adopts the C-Dproduction function, the manufacturers pricing formula and the supply and demand functionto calculate the necessary quantity, the excessive quantityⅰ and the excessive quantity ⅱ ofthe farmland conversion in Guanzhong Region from2000to2007, and analyze the result.Chapter five: conclusions and suggestions. This chapter summarizes the mainconclusions of this paper, based on these conclusions it puts forward some suggestions toregulate the rational quantity of farmland conversion and maximize the efficiency of landallocation.