Chinese Urban Land Expansion Issues in Transition Period——Empirical Test Based on Muth-Mill Model
分析了市场改革和政府制度转型如何影响中国城市土地的空间扩张，并基于Muth-Mill模型使用地级市数据进行了实证检验，发现经济增长、城市化、交通进步和服务业发展是主要驱动因素，而工业化影响不显著。
The paper analyzed how the market reform and government institution transition influence spatial expansion of Chinese urban land.Then a empirical test was given based on Muth-Mill model using Chinese prefecture level cities data in 1998,2002,2004,2006.The results indicate that economic growth,urbanization,transport progress and the service development are the main courses of Chinese urban space expansion.Results of regression by year indicate that industrialization does not significantly influence urban space expansion.The relative utilization of urban to rural can't influence the cities space because of government's strict regulation on land.