Yu-Long Tian

A Study on the Impact of Non-agricultural Use of Agricultural Land in Shandong Province on Economic Growth

China's farmland has been shifted to factories, roads, and housing faster than at any point in its history—and Shandong has been at the front of that wave. The conversion helped push the province's GDP up for years, but it has also eaten into grain acreage, strained the Yellow River basin's ecology, and left displaced...