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The Impossible in China’s Homestead Management: Free Access, Marketization and Settlement Containment

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  • Chuanhao Tian

    (Department of Government, Zhejiang Universality, Mengmin Wei Building, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310000, China)

  • Li Fang

    (Urban and Regional Planning and Design, Architecture Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA)

Abstract

Rural settlement containment is a challenging issue for many countries. It becomes especially daunting when people want rural settlements to serve multiple social goals. For example, in China, the central government seeks to simultaneously achieve three goals with the rural homestead management system. It wishes to: (1) contain rural settlements to preserve farmland; (2) entitle rural households to free homestead; and (3) encourage rural residents to accrue monetary income from homesteads. This paper, using survey data from 54 villages in China, shows that these three policy goals are an impossible combination. In fact, the latter two encourage settlement expansion. Moreover, with the latter two in place, we find that rural cadres expand homesteads more aggressively than others, exacerbating social and economic inequality within rural communities.

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  • Chuanhao Tian & Li Fang, 2018. "The Impossible in China’s Homestead Management: Free Access, Marketization and Settlement Containment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(3), pages 1-19, March.
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