ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the rural industrialization process driven by township–village-enterprises (TVEs) and the burgeoning industrial clusters dominant in urban states after the demise of TVEs, and the various forms of city expansion in the context of the social-economic transition. It discusses selects three representative peri-urban areas from three major urban agglomerations across China: Shunde in the Pearl River Delta, Jiangyin in the Yangtze River Delta, and Shunyi in the Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei region Region. The chapter identifies the spatio-temporal characteristics of land-use change such as land fragmentation, mix of residential and industrial land, and fragmented property rights. It examines the driving force behind land-use change in peri-urban areas. Based on the land-use investigation, non-agricultural lands in peri-urban regions are categorized as residential land, industrial land, commercial land, and land for public facilities. In Jiangyin, land-use change presented characteristics of both aggregation and fragmentation.
