School of Management, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
Business School, University of Edinburgh, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9JS, UK.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr 14;19(8):4785. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19084785.
The preference for land urbanization of local governments promotes urban sprawl, which leads to the dilemma of land finance dependence (LFD) of local governments and the negative constraints on the ecosystem of urban areas in China. However, how the urban growth boundary (UGB) policy corrects local governments' reliance on land finance has not been discussed in depth. In July 2014, the UGB policy began to be piloted in fourteen cities in China, providing a setting to further reveal the effectiveness of the UGB policy. By constructing an evolutionary game simulation model to clarify the behavioral strategies that local governments tend to adopt in the context of the UGB policy implementation, this study proves that the effective implementation of the UGB policy, by controlling the urban land capacity, can help solve local governments' LFD dilemma in China. The UGB policy consists of a set of technical means and policy tools that controls urban sprawl. It breaks the "unlimited land capacity" situation faced by local governments in China by limiting the urban land capacity within a given period of time, and has become a new solution to the dilemma of LFD. The implementation of the UGB policy highlighted the shortage of urban land, which has led to the increasing cost of land finance for local governments and constraints on local governments' LFD behavior. The shortage has also forced local governments to adjust and optimize their fiscal revenue structure. The UGB policy induced ongoing evolution in the benefit distribution among relevant entities in land finance, motivated local governments and other entities to adjust their primary strategies, and made it possible to address the dilemma of LFD in China.
地方政府对土地城镇化的偏好推动了城市蔓延，导致地方政府土地财政依赖（LFD）的困境和中国城市生态系统的负面约束。然而，城市增长边界（UGB）政策如何纠正地方政府对土地财政的依赖尚未得到深入讨论。2014 年 7 月，UGB 政策开始在我国 14 个城市试点，为进一步揭示 UGB 政策的有效性提供了一个设置。通过构建一个进化博弈模拟模型，明确了地方政府在 UGB 政策实施背景下倾向于采取的行为策略，本研究证明，UGB 政策通过控制城市土地容量的有效实施，可以帮助解决中国地方政府的 LFD 困境。UGB 政策由一系列技术手段和政策工具组成，控制城市扩张。它通过在给定的时间内限制城市土地容量，打破了中国地方政府面临的“无限土地容量”局面，成为解决 LFD 困境的新方案。UGB 政策的实施凸显了城市土地的短缺，这导致了地方政府土地财政成本的增加，并限制了地方政府的 LFD 行为。这种短缺也迫使地方政府调整和优化其财政收入结构。UGB 政策引发了土地财政相关实体之间的利益分配持续演变，促使地方政府和其他实体调整其主要策略，从而有可能解决中国的 LFD 困境。
