Does Industrial Green Transformation Really Lead to High Land Use Efficiency? Evidence from China

Wenfang Pu, Mengba Liu and Anlu Zhang ()
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Wenfang Pu: School of Economy and Management, Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Qiantang District, Hangzhou 310018, China
Mengba Liu: College of City Construction, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
Anlu Zhang: College of Land Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China

Land, 2025, vol. 14, issue 5, 1-24

Abstract: This research aimed to investigate whether transformation of the industrial sector in a region could improve industrial land use efficiency. Taking the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in China as the research area, we compiled socioeconomic panel data from 2000 to 2020 in order to analyze the impact of the transformation of industrial sectors in an area on industrial land use efficiency from two dimensions: industrial structural optimization and industrial spatial layout. The research results show the following: (1) The rationalization and upgrading of the industrial sector, as well as the professional agglomeration of industry and diversified industrial agglomeration, have improved the efficiency of industrial land use. (2) The impact of industrial rationalization on industrial land use efficiency presents an inverted U-shaped curve, whereby the impact of industrial upgrading on industrial land use efficiency has a relatively small spatiotemporal heterogeneity. The spatiotemporal changes in the impact of industrial specialized agglomeration on industrial land use efficiency are relatively small, while the spatiotemporal changes in the impact of industrial diversified agglomeration on industrial land use efficiency are more obvious. (3) There is obvious spatial heterogeneity in the two dimensions industrial structural optimization and industrial spatial layout in the three sub-regions when improving industrial land use efficiency.

Keywords: industrial transformation; industrial land efficiency; spatial spillover effect; spatiotemporal heterogeneity; threshold effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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