Urban expansion in China and its effect on cultivated land before and after initiating"Reform and Open Policy"

作     者：ZHANG ZengXiang WEN QingKe LIU Fang ZHAO XiaoLi LIU Bin XU JinYong YI Ling HU ShunGuang WANG Xiao ZUO LiJun LI Na LI MinMin SHI LiFeng ZENG Tian JU HongRun 

作者机构：Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital EarthChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100049China 

出 版 物：《Science China Earth Sciences》 (中国科学（地球科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第59卷第10期

页      面：1930-1945页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 08[工学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 083304[工学-城乡发展历史与遗产保护规划] 0704[理学-天文学] 0833[工学-城乡规划学] 120405[管理学-土地资源管理] 

基　　金：supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41201443) “One-Three-Five”Strategic Planning Program by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth(Grant No.Y4SG0100CX) National Remote Sensing Centre of China 

主　　题：Urban expansion process in China Remote sensing Unbalanced regional development Population size Administrative ranks Cultivated land loss 

摘      要：Urbanization in China has expanded at an unprecedented speed since the declaration of Reform and Open Policyand presented many challenges. Unbalanced regional development, appearance of super megacities and concomitant problems,and conflicts between urbanization and cultivated land protection are three critical problems that Chinese urbanization has to face. To develop new plans for foreseeable future urbanization in China, it is critical to understand the evolving history of cities across China. This study maps urban expansion of 60 typical Chinese cities based on large amount of remote sensing data and the labor-intensive image interpretation method, in order to understand the history of urban expansion from the 1970 s to *** showed that area of cities expanded 5.23 times compared to their area in the 1970 s. Urban expansion in China accelerated three times(1988–1996, 1999–2006, and 2009–2011) and decelerated three times(1997–1998, 2007–2008, and 2012–2013) over the 40 years. The urban area of South China expanded most significantly 9.42 times, while the urban area in Northeast China expanded only 2.37 times. The disparity among different administrative ranks of cities was even greater than(3.81 times) the differences among different regions. Super megacities have been continuously expanding at a fast rate(8.60-fold), and have not shown obvious signs of slowing down. The proportion of cultivated land among the land sources for urban expansion decreased to a small extent in the 1990 s, but cultivated land continues to be the major land source for urban expansion. Effective future urbanization needs controlling the expansion scale of large cities and reasonably developing medium and small cities, as well as balancing regional development.