区域经济发展不平衡与土地违法:基于地方政府经济增长激励的视角

Imbalanced Development of Regional Economy and Illegal Land Use: A Perspective of Economic Growth Incentive on Local Governments

研究目的:探究地方政府经济增长激励背景下,区域经济发展不平衡对土地违法行为的影响。研究方法:基于经济和社会科学领域有关发展不平衡及其影响效应的理论观点,结合中国特定的地方政府经济增长激励机制,以及土地利用与管理实际,探讨区域经济发展不平衡对土地违法行为的影响机理,并通过构建计量经济模型进行相应的实证检验。研究结果:区域内部经济发展差异的扩大确实会导致更多土地违法案件的产生和违法用地规模的增加;另外,在不同经济发展地区,区域内部经济发展差异变化对土地违法的具体影响有所不同。发达地区内部经济发展差异的扩大对土地违法的影响主要表现在违法面积上,而欠发达地区内部经济发展差异的扩大对土地违法的影响则主要表现在违法案件数上。研究结论:区域经济发展不平衡是导致土地违法行为的重要因素之一,促进和实现地区间的均衡发展有助于减少土地违法现象。

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of imbalanced development of regional economy on illegal land use, from the perspective of economic growth incentive on local governments. The methods employed are that based on the relevant theories about imbalanced development and its influences in the research area of economic and social sciences, we firstly explored the influencing mechanism of China’s imbalanced development of regional economy on illegal land use in theory, connecting the current situation of land use and management and the special economic growth incentive on China’s local governments. Then, we developed an econometric model to test the effects of imbalanced development of regional economy on illegal land use, using the statistical data of 23 provinces in China from 2000 to 2015. The results show that enlarging difference of regional economic development indeed results in more illegal land use cases and areas. Furthermore, in the regions with different development level, the effects of imbalanced development of regional economy on illegal land use are different. Specifically, enlarging difference of regional economic development indeed results in more illegal land use areas in developed regions and cases in undeveloped regions. The conclusions of this paper also draws some useful implications for Chinese government to effectively control and govern illegal land use behaviors. We believe that promoting and realizing balanced development of regional economy is beneficial to decrease illegal land use.