Using Marginal Land Resources to Solve the Shortage of Rural Entrepreneurial Land in China

Lei Zhu, Chenyujing Yang, Yuanyuan Zhang and Yongji Xue
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Lei Zhu: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Chenyujing Yang: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Yuanyuan Zhang: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Yongji Xue: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-20

Abstract: Rural entrepreneurship is an important way to promote rural revitalization, narrow the gap between urban and rural areas and increase farmers’ income. With the acceleration of urbanization, land resources have become scarcer than capital, technology, and human resources in China. At the same time, food-security pressure makes the stock of rural construction land in China extremely tight. Therefore, how to meet the demand for rural entrepreneurial land without touching the red line of cultivated land or occupying the existing rural construction land available is an urgent problem that needs to be solved. Reviewing the relevant literature, it was found that some regions in China innovated the way of “capital compensation and land equity” to obtain the use rights of marginal land resources such as idle farmhouses, workshops and school buildings and transformed them into entrepreneurial development spaces, which alleviated the scarcity of entrepreneurial construction land. At the same time, it also promoted the local residents’ employment and economic development. We believe that according to the social and economic conditions of different regions, the in-depth tapping of rural marginalized land is an effective way to solve the lack of development space for rural entrepreneurship and should be implemented worldwide.

Keywords: idle farmhouse; idle school buildings; idle workshops; rural entrepreneurial construction land; rural revitalization; rural hollowing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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