Analysing the impact of neoliberalism on community planning in rural China

This has led to real estate speculation and entrepreneurial governance and has spread to rural areas through rural land marketisation experiments. The private sector, thus, can participate in rural planning and construction. This is a manifestation of planetary urbanisation.

Meanwhile, the State has begun to intervene in speculative urban and rural development through its authority and monopoly over land ownership, contrasting with Western neoliberal interventions. Speculative construction has been suppressed, and the recession in the real estate market has caused the ghost city phenomenon in both urban and rural areas. </div><div>The findings confirm that market and city competition principles, shaped by neoliberalism, continue to affect China’s rural planning policies and practices.

The study offers policy suggestions to reduce these negative impacts and provides experiences for rural revitalisation in other Global South contexts facing similar pressures. </div><div><br></div><div><i>Thesis is embargoed until 31 July 2031.</i></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>