Strategies for Improving Urban Land Use in the Context of New-type Urbanization

Jiaheng Li; Lianyi Song

doi:10.54691/d9xe1n26

Authors

Jiaheng Li
Lianyi Song

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/d9xe1n26

Keywords:

New-type Urbanization, Urban Land Use Improvement, Intensive Use, Smart City, Land Use Planning.

Abstract

New-type urbanization is a core strategy for China's modernization, bearing the development tasks of expanding domestic demand and promoting growth, while also facing urgent needs for transformation and quality improvement. As of the end of 2025, China's urbanization rate of permanent residents reached 67.89%, which still shows a significant gap compared to developed countries. However, the extensive development model of traditional urbanization has triggered problems such as low land use efficiency, disjointed planning, and prominent supply-demand contradictions, which have become key obstacles to the implementation of new-type urbanization. As the material foundation and spatial carrier of urbanization, the efficiency of land utilization directly relates to the sustainability of urbanization; therefore, targeted optimization and improvement are urgently needed. Taking the current status of urban land use under new-type urbanization as a starting point, this paper conducts a systematic analysis from three aspects-the intensity of land use, the planning system, and technical support-to explore implementation pathways for improving urban land use efficiency. It constructs a "Planning-Intensification-Smart" trinity improvement framework. With intensive land use as the goal, measures are formulated across four dimensions: ideology, institutional design, technology integration, and planning coordination. Based on land use planning, the planning system is optimized by enhancing the scientific nature of compilation and perfecting flexible control mechanisms. With smart cities as technical empowerment, full-process precise management of land use is achieved by relying on remote sensing, GIS, and digital technologies. This study provides practical pathways and relevant theoretical references for the optimization of urban land use in China.

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