Research Update
07
Aug
On the afternoon of July 5, 2024, the National Academy of Development and Strategy, the Institute of Land Planning and National Governance, and the School of Public Administration at Renmin University of China successfully held the 5th Biweekly Policy Analysis Meeting with the topic of “How to Better Allocate Land Resources to Serve the Development of New Quality Productive”.
Experts and scholars, including Gong Yuquan, former Deputy Director of the Consulting and Research Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Wang Jun, Director of the Land Consolidation Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Wang Qingri, Director of the Land Policy Research Center of the China Land Survey and Planning Institute, Huang Zhengxue, Director of the Land Economics Office of the Institute of Land Development and Regional Economics at the National Development and Reform Commission, Hou Huali, Director of the Institute of Natural Resources Development and Utilization at the China Academy of Natural Resources Economics, Zhang Di, Researcher at the Land Space Utilization Research Office of the Information Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources, as well as Professors Feng Lei, Xia Fangzhou, and Associate Professor Wang Jiejing from the School of Public Administration at Renmin University of China, conducted an in-depth discussion on the theme of 'How to Better Allocate Land Resources to Serve the Development of New Quality Productive Forces.'
The discussion aimed to provide a more creative and guiding ideological system, theoretical framework, and action plan for empowering new productive forces through the allocation of land resources.
Professor Li Wenzhao, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Public Administration at Renmin University of China, delivered the opening speech. Professor Li stated that General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important discourses on new quality productive forces enrich the connotation of Xi Jinping's economic thought. It is timely to delve into the basic principles, realization paths, and effectiveness of enabling new quality productive forces with land elements. This discussion aids in addressing the contemporary issue of how national governance can effectively promote the development of new quality productive forces. He emphasized that in the face of opportunities and challenges brought by a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, vigorously developing new quality productive forces driven primarily by technological innovation is the inevitable path to promoting high-quality development in China. The optimal allocation of land elements is a crucial path to realizing the development of new quality productive forces. Professor Li earnestly hopes that the participating experts will thoroughly discuss the basic principles, realization paths, and effectiveness of enabling new quality productive forces with land elements, sparking intellectual collisions through discussions and inspiring innovation through exchanges. This will provide a more creative and leading ideological system, theoretical framework, and action plan for enabling new quality productive forces with land elements, thereby effectively enhancing the practical effects of this development.
This analysis meeting was chaired by Professor Xia Fangzhou from the School of Public Administration at Renmin University of China.
Researcher Gong Yuquan believes that developing new quality productive forces necessitates the formation of new production relations compatible with these forces. Land element allocation is a complex system composed of relationships regarding land ownership, supply, distribution, use, and benefits, which essentially belong to the category of production relations. Therefore, innovatively optimizing land element allocation is an inevitable requirement for the development of new quality productive forces. He elaborates on this from three aspects:
First, the innovative optimization of land element allocation is a significant driver for developing new quality productive forces. It helps address issues like high factor input and low utilization efficiency in traditional economic growth modes, promoting intensive economic growth and high-quality development.
Second, the innovative optimization of land element allocation is an inherent requirement for the development of new quality productive forces. Deep industrial transformation and upgrading not only change the specific industrial land structure but also spatial layout, necessitating adaptive adjustments in policies related to land element allocation.
Third, the innovative optimization of land element allocation and empowering new quality productive forces need to be addressed at both macro and micro levels. At the macro level, it is necessary to better utilize macro-control policies like national land space planning to guide the concentration of land resources in advantageous areas. At the micro level, it is crucial to further innovate and improve systems and rules related to land property rights and market access, fully leveraging the decisive role of the market in allocating land resources.
Researcher Wang Jun discusses the coupling and interactive feedback relationship between new quality productive forces and optimized land resource allocation from five aspects:
First, land elements provide the necessary physical space for various industries of new quality productive forces.
Second, the development of new quality productive forces will promote the optimization of land element allocation.
Third, rational land planning and spatial layout can facilitate the balanced development of new quality productive forces in different regions.
Fourth, new quality productive forces are inherently green productive forces, and land ecological protection and restoration can provide a better material foundation for these forces.
Fifth, considering the uncertainties in the development of new quality productive forces, land element allocation needs to have flexibility in risk management and responding to changes.
Researcher Wang Qingri pointed out that land demonstrates different values and functions at various stages of social development. Optimizing the use of land elements to empower new quality productive forces first requires a correct understanding of the important role land elements play in developing these forces. The development of new quality productive forces signifies a substantial increase in total factor productivity. To achieve this, it is necessary to clearly define the reasonable boundaries between an effective market and a proactive government in the allocation of land elements. Government planning should address market failures, while simultaneously, there must be substantial reforms in land systems that are incompatible with the development of new quality productive forces. Policy reforms and innovations should empower the development of new quality productive forces.
Researcher Huang Zhengxue analyzed five important issues:
First, the lack of a mixed-use land property rights system hinders the development of new industries and new business formats within new quality productive forces.
Second, the allocation of indicators such as surplus indicators for urban-rural construction land increase-decrease linkage and supplementary cultivated land indicators relatively lacks a market mechanism, making it difficult to effectively support the development of advantageous areas.
Third, there is a relative lack of institutional guarantees for the 'same land, same rights, same price, same responsibility' principle in urban and rural land use, resulting in weak willingness among market entities to utilize collectively-owned commercial construction land.
Fourth, the enthusiasm of market entities to revitalize stock industrial land is low, leading to many industrial lands being idle.
Fifth, the establishment of a unified national tangible and intangible market for land elements is hindered by differentiated institutional arrangements in different regions, requiring further exploration and breakthroughs.
Researcher Hou Huali emphasized that optimizing the use of land elements to empower new quality productive forces should employ four strategies:
First, improve the combination supply mechanisms and plans for land elements of different types or functions, different property rights, and different spatial locations.
Second, further deepen the reform of China's paid land use system and industrial land allocation policies.
Third, promote green technological innovation and application in the allocation of land elements.
Fourth, utilize digital means to empower land resource management and the allocation of land elements.
Researcher Zhang Di stated that land elements have provided strong support and guarantees for the rapid development of the social economy. To better support and guarantee the development of new quality productive forces, three measures should be taken:
First, deeply promote the economical and intensive use of land, accelerate the fundamental transformation of land use methods, and release development space to provide a good element environment for industrial development and innovative growth.
Second, improve the precision and efficiency of land element allocation, promote the aggregation of land elements towards emerging and future industries, and enhance the ability to support high-quality development in advantageous areas.
Third, consider the overall regional element allocation to form a national spatial pattern that supports multiple functions, complements advantages, and fosters regional coordination.
Professor Feng Lei stated that the key aspects of new quality productive forces are innovation and quality, and the relationship between land element allocation and these productive forces is an important topic of discussion. He elaborated on three focal points for optimizing the use of land elements to empower new quality productive forces:
First, strengthen fundamental research to promote and lead the innovation of new methods for land element allocation.
Second, drive the theoretical innovation of land element allocation from an interdisciplinary perspective, guiding land element allocation to better serve the development of new quality productive forces.
Third, enhance the comprehensive coordination of institutional reforms in land element allocation, effectively adjusting the relationships between people and land, the allocation of funds, and the distribution of resources in the development of new quality productive forces.
Associate Professor Wang Jiejing believes that the current land element allocation to serve the development of new quality productive forces has the following deficiencies:
First, land element allocation policies rarely consider the differentiated spatial development demands of cities at different levels.
Second, the physical form and property rights structure of land in some rural areas are fragmented, leading to high transaction costs for the transfer of agricultural land and difficulties in achieving large-scale agricultural operations and integrated development.
Third, the inadequate provision of basic public services in urban villages limits their potential to meet the basic living needs of innovative talents.
At the end of the meeting, the participating experts engaged in a lively discussion on two major issues: "Systemic and mechanistic bottlenecks and constraints in empowering new quality productive forces with land elements" and "How to optimize the use of land elements to empower new quality productive forces".
(Translated by ZHANG Yuqing; Proofread by YANG Fanxin)
The 'Biweekly Policy Analysis Meeting' is a high-end policy discussion and exchange platform developed by the National Academy of Development and Strategy at Renmin University of China (NADS). It aims to promote the construction of NADS as a high-end think tank characterized by a 'new platform, extensive network, interdisciplinary and cross-cutting approaches, innovation promotion, and high output' through the research, analysis, and comprehensive evaluation of public policies. This platform gathers high-quality resources from within and outside the university, as well as from government, industry, and academia, striving to provide 'Renmin University perspectives' on major policy issues in fields such as politics, economics, society, culture, ecology, law, and diplomacy.