Land Politics under Market Socialism: The State, Land Policies, and Rural–Urban Land Conversion in China and Vietnam

Hoang Linh Nguyen, Jin Duan and Guo Qin Zhang
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Hoang Linh Nguyen: Department of Urban Planning, School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Jin Duan: Department of Urban Planning, School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Guo Qin Zhang: Department of Architecture, Shanghai academy of fine arts, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

Land, 2018, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-17

Abstract: This paper undertakes a comparative analysis of rural–urban land conversion policies in China and Vietnam, and examines the ideology of the state in land policymaking under a market socialism environment. It argues that land policies in both countries include ambiguous boundaries, which allow the socialist state to legitimize its politico-administrative power in land management and retain strong intervention capacity in the land market. In addition to similarities, land policies in China and Vietnam show significant differences in terms of the ownership of rural land and related legislation on land expropriation and transactions. Together, these distinctions cause divergent impacts on the interests and motivations of multiple stakeholders in rural land conversion. It is further observed that the state in both countries is characterized by dynamic, complex, and self-coordinated institutional systems, in which multiple levels of government have different driving forces and strategies in land development. The internal structure of authority in rural–urban land conversion between the multiple levels of government is readjusted by the regulatory land control of the central government.

Keywords: China; land policy; state; land conversion; Vietnam; rural; urban (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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