Contemporary China’s Land Use Policy

Long Cheng is currently working as a lecturer at the Department of Land Management, College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He received his PhD in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests include land use policy in China and China’s urbanization process, and he has published extensively in leading journals such as Habitat International, and Land Use Policy.

• Introduction.- Urbanization and China’s land use policy reform.- China’s rural transformation and the Link Policy.- Rural densification under China’s Link Policy.- An evaluation of contemporary China’s land use policy – the Link Policy: A case study from Ezhou City, Hubei Province.- Factors affecting farmers’ satisfaction with contemporary China’s land allocation policy – the Link Policy: Based on the empirical research of Ezhou.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Appendices.