Urban Land Reform in China
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company | ISBN: 033375025X | edition 1999 | PDF | 214 pages | 12,4 mb



This book presents an authoritative account of urban land reform inChina - a unique attempt to merge the existing socialist landownershipsystem with market mechan-isms. Compared with urban land reform inother transition economies, China's reform has been somewhat gradual.The book begins with a historical account of the land tenure system inChina, demonstrating that land reform undertaken for the sake ofpolitical restructuring is unlikely to produce satisfactory results.The different strands of urban land reform in China are examined: thelegal framework, the administrative structure, and the property financeframework. An analysis of the urban housing market shows how the urbanland system affects significantly the general socio- economic system inChina.