What Causes Land Scarcity?

Land resources refer to land that has been used by humans and can be used by humans in the foreseeable future. Land resources include both the natural category, that is, the natural attributes of land, and the economic category, that is, the social attributes of land. They are the means of production and labor objects of human beings.

Land resources refer to the land available for agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry or other uses.

There are many methods for the classification of land resources. In China, the topographic classification and

Under market economy conditions, land resources present different characteristics that transcend natural attributes.

(I) Productivity of land resources

Land resources are productive, that is, they can produce certain plant and animal products that are needed by humans. This is one of the essential attributes of land resources and an important sign that distinguishes them from soil resources, because the harmful nature of the latter is fertility, and Not productivity. Land productivity can be divided into natural productivity and active labor productivity according to its nature. The former is formed naturally, that is, the land has the basic characteristics of growing plants. It was originally prepared with wheat, while the latter is produced by artificial influence. The level of land productivity, that is, what can be produced, how much can be produced, or what products can be provided, and how much can be provided depends mainly on the above two aspects of productivity. Once land loses its productivity, it is not a resource.

(B) the scarcity of land resources

Scarcity means that the available resources are not inexhaustible and inexhaustible. The scarcity of land resources is both relative and absolute. Because, on the one hand, resources are scarce relative to human desire for land resources; on the other hand, human beings are always facing the problem of scarcity of resources whenever and wherever they are. This scarcity is manifested not only by the scarcity of land resources for different uses, but also by the relative scarcity of land resources in the same area. Land resources are renewable resources in general, which is essentially a problem of matching and harmonizing between the supply and demand of land resources and output and consumption. It is relatively scarce. Scarcity is another essential attribute of land resources.

(3) The selectivity of land resources

Selectivity means that among the multiple uses of land resources, human beings can choose the use that maximizes the benefits to achieve the best use of the land. Matching in the evaluation of land resources refers to the process in which land use methods and land's multiple suitability are mutually selected. In general, land resources tend to choose those uses that yield the most benefits. Whenever the effective demand for different land-use methods changes, the land use is also transferred. Unless such transfers are not allowed by the system, or have opposite goals, or the individual is unresponsive. The emergence of cities and towns is a vivid example of alternative land resources. The central business districts of some large cities were a wilderness long ago. The adjustment of agricultural structure is also a typical example of the selectivity of land resources. Some land for long-term cultivation of food crops can be converted to cultivate fruit gardens. The selectivity of land resources indicates that land resources can be optimally allocated. Human beings must explore, identify, diagnose, monitor, and arbitrate the best use of land resources with a scientific attitude, so as to ensure the demand for land resources in current and future generations' production and living.

(IV) Interrelationship between land resources and land assets

Land resources are the basic materials and energy that are continuously separated from the global environment to support human survival and development. Among them, "fund" means that land is "useful" and "valuable" to human beings, and "source" means that land is the source of human production and living materials. As a kind of resource, land is determined by the irreplaceable importance of the material and energy of land to the needs of human society, so it is eternal. The first priority is the essential attributes of land. Land resources have both natural and economic attributes. Productivity of land resources is its natural attribute, and the use value of land resources is its economic attribute.

(V) Interrelationship between land resources and land capital

The symbol of the conversion of land resources into land capital. One is government rent and the other is profit. Because land rent and profit are the economic realization form of land ownership and capital ownership. The rent reflects the lease relationship of the land, which is expressed as the return of land ownership; the profit reflects the investment relationship, which is expressed as the return of capital ownership.

Land resources and land capital are closely linked. In the capitalist economy, some land resources are privately owned, but generally belong to the state, because according to their capital requirements, national land ownership is realized; and because territorial, airspace, and territorial water rights are recognized by international conventions The manifestation of sovereignty. Land capital generally appears as capital of capitalist landowners. In order to remove the obstacles to the development of capitalism, the bourgeois state has eliminated the feudal landowner land ownership, established the rule of capital over agriculture, and changed the feudal land ownership to capitalist land ownership. It embodies the economic relations of landowners, agricultural capitalists, and agricultural workers. Because capitalist production is the most developed production of commodities, the generalization of commodity forms, all commodities, all factors of production, and all elements of wealth are manifested in the form of values such as commodities, currency, and capital. People naturally also regard land resources as land capital. ^[2]

With the continuous progress of China's urbanization

Percentage of land available at all levels in China's available wasteland

With the advancement, the shortage of land resources is becoming a bottleneck restricting the sustainable development of China's economy and society. On the one hand, urbanization requires a large amount of land, and on the other hand, the government continuously emphasizes the red line of maintaining 1.8 billion mu of arable land, and has formulated strict land protection law. The sharp contradiction between supply and demand prompts us to pay attention again. For a long time, we have neglected that there are still a lot of wastelands in China that are not suitable for food production. With the development of science and technology, the use and value of these wastelands have begun to show.

According to the use value of the wasteland, we divide it into three levels: A, B, and C. The survey shows that China has a total of 26.8 million hectares of available wasteland.

After investigation and analysis, these wastelands can be directly or simply improved to grow energy crops and other cash crops, such as energy forests or flower and fruit trees. Developing these lands will bring huge economic and social benefits. For investors who want to enter this field, an in-depth understanding and grasp of relevant knowledge is essential. ^[1]