Study On Land Conversion From Rural To Urban Areas And Its Decision-making

Land conversion from rural to urban areas has become a common phenomenon in the process of urbanization. Economic return from agricultural land is so lower than construction land that it converts from rural to urban. However, agricultural land is not only with use values but also non-use values. At the same time, land conversion is irreversible. So land conversion from rural to urban areas is a cost in the process of urbanization to some extent It is a most important task for our country that how to reduce the cost of land loss in order to assure food security and urbanization during the acceleration period of urbanization.Land converts from rural to urban areas in the market mechanism, the participators includes predevelopment landowners, intermediate actors, final consumers and market coordinator. The law in China provides: The urban land not rural land can be offered for sale. After land is taken over and changed it's ownership, Rural land can be offered for sale to meet the need of urban development. In other words, decision-making of land conversion belongs to government behavior in China. So, it is more important for government to make scientific decision to resolve the loss of agricultural land in the process of urbanization.This paper carries on a systematic research on land conversion and it's decision-making. Based on manifold methods of system analysis, qualitative and quantity, normative and positive analysis, according to the statistical data, the change trend of cultivated land, the spatial differentiation, and the driving forces of cultivated land change in Wuhan city during the last 20 years are discussed in this paper. The total area of arable land and per capita availability is reducing. Afterward, it analyses temporal and spatial efficiency of land conversion. In the end, the author builds up a misty model to adjudicate. This study shows that: (1) pressure of population, the dynamic development of economy and progress of science and technology in agriculture are main driving forces of the change of cultivated land in Wuhan City; (2) It is so unbalanced between quantity of land conversion and economic development that it is a task to raise the efficiency of land use; (3) Agricultural land is not only with use values but also non-use values, At the same time, some values of agricultural land will be loss if land converts from rural to urban. So decision-maker should put non-use values into decision-making of land conversion from rural to urban areas to protect limited agricultural lands; (4) Decision-maker pay attention to not only economic factor, social factor and ecological factor to combine, but also the welfare improvement of several corpuses, and the research of farmland value and policy factor in the meantime. (5) Decision-making of location is one of the key task of land...