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題名 The Increasing Financialization of China’s Urbanization
作者 THEURILLAT, THIERRY
JAMES H. LENZER, JR.
ZHAN, HONGYU
關鍵詞 Financialization; land-driven urban growth; local governments’ debt; local financing platforms; property development; China
日期 2016-12
上傳時間 4-Dec-2017 17:23:06 (UTC+8)
摘要 This paper provides a heuristic framework to address issues about China’s ongoing urbanization in relation to the role of land and built environment as triggers for economic growth and to the increasing financialization of urban production. While a dominant field of literature highlights the interrelation between land and capital within a specific institutional setting between Central and local governments, it argues to include other key linkages between infrastructures, property development and finance to understand China’s recent exponential urban growth. It first places the current consequent local governments’ debt into perspective along with the evolution of financial circuits for urban infrastructures resulting from Central Government policy and regulation changes. Next, and in line with the real estate literature that highlights the key role of demand, it develops an original understanding of the financialization of urban production from the perspective of China’s property industry. Besides the role of homeownership policies since 1998 which boosted urban production based on use value, various ways of the transformation of property into financial assets have occurred. Chinese households as the main investors have not only been able to directly invest in housing and in non-housing by purchasing flats or commercial property but indirectly by increasing investments in special purpose vehicles such as trust-bank and funds finance and new kinds of investment platforms. In both cases, Central Government macropolicies, both stimulating and restricting from 2008–2016, have gone in hand with increasing financialization processes for local governments’ debt, urban infrastructure financing and real estate.
關聯 Issues & Studies,52(4), 1640002
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251116400026
dc.creator (作者) THEURILLAT, THIERRYen_US
dc.creator (作者) JAMES H. LENZER, JR.en_US
dc.creator (作者) ZHAN, HONGYUen_US
dc.date (日期) 2016-12
dc.date.accessioned 4-Dec-2017 17:23:06 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 4-Dec-2017 17:23:06 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 4-Dec-2017 17:23:06 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/114988-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) This paper provides a heuristic framework to address issues about China’s ongoing urbanization in relation to the role of land and built environment as triggers for economic growth and to the increasing financialization of urban production. While a dominant field of literature highlights the interrelation between land and capital within a specific institutional setting between Central and local governments, it argues to include other key linkages between infrastructures, property development and finance to understand China’s recent exponential urban growth. It first places the current consequent local governments’ debt into perspective along with the evolution of financial circuits for urban infrastructures resulting from Central Government policy and regulation changes. Next, and in line with the real estate literature that highlights the key role of demand, it develops an original understanding of the financialization of urban production from the perspective of China’s property industry. Besides the role of homeownership policies since 1998 which boosted urban production based on use value, various ways of the transformation of property into financial assets have occurred. Chinese households as the main investors have not only been able to directly invest in housing and in non-housing by purchasing flats or commercial property but indirectly by increasing investments in special purpose vehicles such as trust-bank and funds finance and new kinds of investment platforms. In both cases, Central Government macropolicies, both stimulating and restricting from 2008–2016, have gone in hand with increasing financialization processes for local governments’ debt, urban infrastructure financing and real estate.en_US
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dc.relation (關聯) Issues & Studies,52(4), 1640002en_US
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Financialization; land-driven urban growth; local governments’ debt; local financing platforms; property development; Chinaen_US
dc.title (題名) The Increasing Financialization of China’s Urbanizationen_US
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1142/S1013251116400026
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251116400026