Study on the urban construction land-use efficiency between different regions of Xiamen- Zhangzhou- Quanzhou urban agglomerations and its convergence

• 1、Collaborative Innovation Center of Clean Energy, Longyan University
• 2、College of Economics and Management,Longyan University

Abstract：The paper studied urban construction land-use efficiency value of Xiamen- Zhangzhou- Quanzhou urban agglomerations during 2011-2017 and its spatial and temporal variation using stochastic frontier production function method. On this basis, cluster analyzed convergence tests of each region were made. The empirical results demonstrated that: 1)The index of urban construction land-use efficiency increased during the period, showing a "spreading" distribution feature, with Siming and Xiangcheng as high-level core areas spreading around.Urban construction land-use efficiency has a significant difference and aggregate in the Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. Consistencies exist with the different regional economic development，the highest average efficiency of urban construction land-use efficiency lies in the Quanzhou and Zhangzhou regions has the least efficiency．This is closely related to their respective economic development, geographical location, capital input and other conditions of labor allocation. For example, in terms of the utilization efficiency of construction land, xiamen and zhangzhou are dominated by capital elements, while quanzhou is most affected by labor input factors. 2)The urban construction land-use efficiency has signs of convergence, although the global characteristics of β-convergence is significant, but The Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou show the weaker β-convergence characteristics. From the steady state values of the regional convergence shown that the Zhangzhou is less than the Quanzhou, the Xiamen is less than the Zhangzhou. From the perspective of regional convergence rate, the Xiamen and Zhangzhou are very close, and shown that the Zhangzhou is higher than Xiamen, Xiamen is higher than Quanzhou. In general, due to regional differences in resource, economic and technological input, there is a gap in the efficiency of urban construction land use, but there is a catch-up effect on the utilization efficiency of construction land in different cities and towns, which means that with the time passing, ecah of major cities in the Xiamen- Zhangzhou- Quanzhou urban agglomerations will converge to a higher land use efficiency.

Keywords： Urban construction land-use efficiency stochastic frontier production function convergence Xiamen- Zhangzhou- Quanzhou urban agglomerations