Volume 4,Issue 3
Institutional Bottlenecks and Optimization Pathways for the Redevelopment of Inefficient Land Use—A Case Study of the Transformation of Village-Level Industrial Parks in Shunde District, Guangdong Province
The redevelopment of inefficient land use is a crucial pathway to breaking land resource bottlenecks, promoting industrial transformation and upgrading, and achieving high-quality economic development. Counties (county-level cities and districts), the core implementation level for this work, directly face complex issues including interest adjustment, resource allocation and institutional constraints, and their implementation effectiveness determines whether relevant policies can be truly put into practice. Taking Shunde District of Guangdong Province, a pilot zone for institutional mechanism reform and innovation for high-quality development, as the core case and combining the Pearl River Delta’s practice of inefficient land use redevelopment, this paper constructs an analytical framework of "Policy Authorization - Organizational Advancement - Resource Guarantee - Interest Coordination". It systematically analyzes the major institutional bottlenecks and their generative mechanisms in county-level inefficient land use redevelopment in China. The study finds prominent problems: inadequate adaptability of planning policies, difficulties in controlling redevelopment costs, poor mechanisms for activating collective land, and ambiguous identification criteria for inefficient land use, whose root causes lie in insufficient vertical authorization, poor tiao-kuai coordination, lagging resource allocation, and an imperfect interest coordination mechanism. Shunde’s practice shows that county-level inefficient land use redevelopment can only shift from localized breakthroughs to systematic advancement under the conditions of provincial-level policy authorization, top leaders’ overall coordination, implementation by institutionalized special task forces, and equal emphasis on risk control and interest sharing. Based on this, the paper proposes optimization pathways from four dimensions: provincial-level policy support, land system reform, supporting policy innovation, and social risk management and control, aiming to provide replicable and promotable practical experience for China’s county-level inefficient land use redevelopment and high-quality development.
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