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Hong, Tao; Yu, Nannan; Mao, Zhonggen; Zhang, Shuhai
Cities, October 2021, 2021-10-00, 20211001, Volume: 117Journal Article
This article interrogates the role of local Chinese governors in government-driven urbanisation. This process often involves local governments converting rural land to urban land rather than local governments incentivising rural-to-urban migration. This study proposes a method to find a proxy variable of government-driven urbanisation and performs an exploratory study of its impact on economic growth. Its empirical analysis is based on provincial data from 1996 to 2015, a period of intense urbanisation in China. The results show that urbanisation has had various effects on growth across different provinces, and that some provinces exhibit a phenomenon called ‘urbanisation without growth’. This may be because local governors push urbanisation too heavy that it can hardly generate positive effects, such as external consumption, technology diffusion, and a larger pool of urban labour. This is similar to the phenomenon of over-urbanisation experienced in some developing countries. As a main driver of over-urbanisation, government-driven urbanisation has typical Chinese characteristics, but this paper's findings still have significant implications for other emerging economies. •Government-driven urbanization happens when governors force farmers to migrate into urban areas.•Government-driven urbanization results in over-urbanisation in Chinese provinces.•Chinese governors are inclined to interrupt the process of market-based urbanisation to boost economic growth.•Government-driven urbanization would impede regional economic growth.
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