From the historical changes of "villages in cities", it is not difficult to find the main reasons for the formation of villages in cities:
Objectively speaking, it is the result of the rapid development of urbanization in China.
Since the reform and opening up more than 20 years ago, the urbanization process has been accelerated, and the number of cities in China has grown from 320 in 1978 to 662.
The urban built-up area has also expanded from 36,000 square kilometers to over 90,000 square kilometers.
The rapid development of the city needs to obtain expansion space by levying cultivated land in the surrounding countryside.
Cultivated land has been expropriated, but local farmers still stay in their original places of residence, and some homesteads are reserved for them to build houses.
There was a movement that the city surrounded the countryside.
Villages enter cities and form villages in cities.
Subjectively, it is caused by the dual management system of urban and rural areas and the dual ownership structure of land in China, which is also a deep-seated institutional reason.
The so-called dual management system of urban and rural areas means that "cities" and "rural areas" belong to different management modes, and the dual ownership structure means that urban land belongs to the state and rural land belongs to the rural collective.
In some "villages in the city", the characteristics of "marginal communities" have been formed, and the dual ownership structure of urban and rural areas exists in parallel and plays a common role.
"From the perspective of individual rational choice, the formation of the special building group and village system of' village in the city' is the result of farmers' pursuit of maximizing the income from land and housing rents in the case of rapid appreciation of land and housing rents." Therefore, from the historical changes of "village in city", we can find that the dual ownership structure of land is the fundamental reason for the formation of "village in city".
The dual ownership structure enables villagers to obtain the right to use land at a low price or even free of charge, and each villager builds and rents it himself to get as much rent as possible. As a result, the formation of "village in the city" has further intensified.
Therefore, the transformation of "villages in cities" in China should also start with the fundamental land system and rights.