A comparative research of coupled construction land change and industrialization between Fujian and Taiwan provinces

Comparative study of LUCC between Fujian and Taiwan could be a good case for study because of their geographical proximities and historical,cultural similarities.Fujian and Taiwan had gone through and were in different economic development phases.Taiwan is in the stage of post-industrialization and Fujian is in the middle stage of industrialization. By using the official statistics,changes of construction land in Fujian and Taiwan were analyzed.The results showed that these two provinces seemed to have the same characteristics of constructionland changes,i.e.,accelerating development,and concentrated distribution on both sides of the Taiwan Straits,forming a pattern with the economic layout of two sides acting in cooperation with each other.From the contrast of different industrialized areas in Fujian with Taiwan industrialized stages,it is clear that these two provinces seemed to have the same characteristics of synthesized index of construction land change(Lc),i.e.,from stabilization or comparative stabilization at the initial stages of industrialization to high expansion at the middle stages of industrialization,then followed by low expansion at later stages of industrialization,but the Lc of the initial and the later stages of industrialization in Taiwan was slightly higher than that in Fujian.Relevant indexes are compared with the result of the study and shown: The industrial structure change rate of Fujian is faster than that of the construction land in Taiwan,but the construction land efficiency of the area is also obviously lower than Taiwan in the middle and later stages of industrialization in Fujian.The major driving forces of the constructionland changes in both provinces were analyzed in Causal Models of Path Analysis,the result indicates that the difference in construction land change of the two provinces is closely related to their economic development stage and industrial structure.Countermeasure for the realization of sustainable utilization of construction land in Fujian put forward in this article is to strengthen intension and tap the latent power.