Study on the Effects of Economic Growth to Farmland Conversion in China

Li Zhang^1*, Yonghui Wang^2*

¹School of Economics and Management Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineer and Architecture, Beijing, China.
²The Center for Housing Industrialization, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/jss.2014.27005                

Abstract

With the rapid development of Chinese economy and acceleration of urbanization, farmland conversion trend is inevitable. In order to analyze the effects of economic growth to farmland conversion in China, the author chooses the data of building occupied land area, per capita gross domestic product, industrial structure, input-output ratio, consumption growth rate and urban and rural income ratio and establishes a set of regression model with the aid of SPSS software. From the result of the model analysis, we can conclude that the impact of economic growth on farmland conversion appears the inverted U curve. The rise of third industry and urban residents’ income will stimulate the demand for farmland.

Keywords

Economic Growth, Farmland Conversion, Econometric Analysis

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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