Prior to 1978, before economic reform, the
government had strict control of land-use planning. Since the
government-initiated economic reforms of 1978, land-use planning
theory and methods have been applied to growing market
economy system. However, rapid urbanization and economic
expansion have resulted in massive land development across the
country, proving to be too much for the capacity of land-use planning
and leading to agriculture land losses (Lin et al., 2005; Zang
and Huang, 2006). These phenomena have occurred because, on
one hand, local governments have not wanted to comply with
land-use plans and have used urban sprawl to achieve their aims;
and on the other hand, land-use plans have not been adapted to
The purpose of this study is to find an optimal land-use
planning method that could be successful in improving both
socioeconomic development and land-use efficiency. As industrialization
plays a major role in the spread of construction,
industrial land-use planning is vital. We are interested in intensive
industrial land-use, and the evaluation of industrial land-use
efficiency is the first and most basic part of this study. We
combined theories of industrial economics and dominant sector
selection with the theory of land-use efficiency in an attempt to
achieve aworkable solution.We examined the case of the Shunyi
District in Beijing because of the rapid speed of industrialization
and the large area of arable land that surrounds the district.