Industrial land-use efficiency and planning in Shunyi, Beijing

With significant socioeconomic development and a growing population, promoting land-use efficiency is, and will remain, the crucial land-use planning issue in China. This study analyzed the characteristics of land-use intensity and programmed industrial land-use planning. The data used in this study were collected from interviews with enterprises, the land registry, administrative committees of the development zones, the first distribution record of the state land-use rights certificates, and Shunyi's economic records. The evaluation of land-use efficiency involved comparing sectors, locations inside and outside development zones, land obtained by transaction or otherwise, and changes over time. Unlike standard dominant industry selections, this study considered the role of intensive land-use crucial to industrial development planning. This land-use efficiency analysis and industrial development planning enabled industrial land-use planning to be accomplished in three important and difficult respects: quantity, arrangement, and scheduling. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.