Against the background of current public policy of urban-rural coordinated development, a key land policy issue is how to deal with the conflict between urban expansion and farmland protection. By analyzing three major types of externality in urban-rural land use and the current trial of...

Urban-rural hook-up policy, a popular land use policy for Chinese local governments, allows urban development at the same size as peasants’ house sites that are converted back into farmland. It is often regarded as a form of transfer of development rights (TDR). Based on detailed analysis of...