Exploring the Way of TDR in Urban Ecological Controlling Zone: A Case Study of Jingui Community in Shenzhen

In 2005, Shenzhen City became the first city in China to carry out the ecological controlling line policy, hoping to restrict land sprawl triggered by its rapid pace of urbanization. Though this policy is effective in maintaining the security of ecology system, it encounters many petitions from the local community, whose land development rights are deprived by the governments’ rigid zoning policy, leading to their rental income loss, infrastructure inconvenience, livelihood and sustainable development crisis. Transfer of land development rights (TDR), a market-driven instrument widely employed abroad, is considered to be consensual to traditional command-and-control regulation in preserving ecological land while guaranteeing the rights of property owners. So this article taking previous TDR practices as a reference, tentatively explores how the TDR can be carried out successfully for ecological controlling area like Jingui Community, by analyzing the supply of the sending area, demand of the receiving zone, guarantee measures and multi-parties involved. In this way, we hope to offer references for government policy for this kind of ecological controlling communities.