For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. This contrasts … addition of newly cultivated land in China through land development has consistently exceeded land conversion. In a model …

For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. This contrasts … addition of newly cultivated land in China through land development has consistently exceeded land conversion. In a model …

empirically tested using Chinese data, which show rapid progress of urbanization in China. The study proposes a new "urbanization …