Study on the Interactive Relationship Between Cross-Border Trade Development and Construction Land Change—A Case Study of Dongxing City, China

With the development of economic globalization and cross-border economic cooperation, social economy in border areas not only has developed rapidly development in social economy, but also land use has gone through radical changes, especially the use of construction land. To explore and analyze the interactive relationship and interaction between cross-border trade development and change in construction land can be of great help in making scientific and reasonable land supply policy and optimizing the layout of construction land in border areas. By adopting econometric methods like co-integration analysis and impulse response function(IRF), this study probes into total export-import volume of cross-border trade and change of its construction land based on the data of Dongxing city from 1997 to 2012. Results show that there is long-term equilibrium in Dongxing city between cross-border trade development and construction land change that every 1 % increased area of construction land leads to 3.47 % increase in cross-border trade developmental level. And then, the Granger causality is not remarkable, illustrating that the direct pulling effect in between is not significant. It is also found that the impact of cross-border trade development could result in over 34 % of construction land change while construction land change could only lead to about 1 %. It indicates that cross-border trade development can bring about changes in construction land, but not vice versa. Finally, this study suggests that construction land growth pattern and cross-border trade development mode in border areas are supposed to improve so as to promote harmonious growth of economy and society.