Preliminary Evaluation of the"Shadow Quota"Policy in Hubei Province:A Perspective of Land Development Rights Equalization
This paper aims to identify and analyze the real challenges facing plan-ning for development priority zones(PDPZ).Rooted in the principle of equal land development rights,the shadow quota policy(SQP)is introduced to facilitate coordi-nated reginal development and common prosperity.Employing the S-CAD policy evaluation method,this paper evaluates the application of SQ to optimize the imple-mentation of PDPZ.Several key findings emerge.Firstly,the strategy that combines"double fair value"with"three-stage fairness realization"helps balance regional land development rights.Secondly,the SQ approach has gained widespread local accep-tance by ensuring justice in the allocation of land development rights among differ-ent types of development priority zones.Additionally,along with central transfer pay-ment,SQP forms a critical component of China's horizontal and vertical transfer pay-ment system.It supports balanced regional development,promotes national strategy implementation,and preserves local autonomy.Thirdly,the paper compares and evalu-ates two policy scenarios in Hubei Province by adopting the S-CAD method.The re-sults show that the scenario involving SQP is more likely to strike a balance be-tween development and protection with high efficacy and efficiency.
land development rightsshadow quotapublic policy pre-evaluationHu-bei Province