Chinese land-use planning is so comprehensive because land
“owned by” both collectives and the state is programmed in it
(Wu et al., 2006). As a result, the task of land-use planning is very
difficult. In the last two decades, land-use planning has struggled
with a variety of serious problems caused by the rapid increase
in population and the disordered spatial arrangement of construction
in cities. China’s population will continuous increasing
until the 2030s, when China is expected to reach its maximum
population of about 1.5 billion (National Population and Family
Planning Commission of China, 2007). Consequently, the crucial
issue to resolve in land-use planning is, and will remain, how
to promote land-use efficiency and accelerate socioeconomic
development, while also rigorously protecting the quantity and
quality of agricultural land.