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Property Rights Reforms and Changing Grassroots Governance in China’s Urban—Rural Peripheries: The Case of Changping District in Beijing

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  • Lanchih Po

    (University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720-2306, USA, lanchih@berkeley.edu)

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This paper analyses how rural property rights reforms have reshaped grassroots governance in the rapid urbanisation process in China. The management and distribution of the villages’ collective property has become a flashpoint for local conflict when collective farmland is taken for urban uses. Changping, a rural district located on the northern periphery of Beijing, pioneered a property rights reform to convert villages’ collective assets into a new form of shareholding co-operative. Along with the election of a new board of directors that is now in charge of collective property, the reforms are redefining the jurisdiction of the party, the village government and the shareholding co-operative organisation, thus reconfiguring the political and economic power structure at the village level.

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  • Lanchih Po, 2011. "Property Rights Reforms and Changing Grassroots Governance in China’s Urban—Rural Peripheries: The Case of Changping District in Beijing," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 48(3), pages 509-528, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:48:y:2011:i:3:p:509-528
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098010390233
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