Evaluating the Impact of the Highway Infrastructure Construction and the Threshold Effect on Cultivated Land Use Efficiency: Evidence from Chinese Provincial Panel Data

Highway infrastructure construction is regarded as one of the effective policy tools used to promote flow production factors and upgrade industrial structure in China, it may also be an important precondition improving Cultivated Land Use Efficiency (CLUE). This paper uses a slack-based model (SBM) based on provincial-level panel data from China 2004 2017 measure CLUE. Then dynamic spatial Durbin threshold regression were established analyze spillover effect highway The results showed that CLUE has fluctuating but overall rising trend. demonstrated Chinese government’s supporting played role promoting by effects, driving expressways first–second highways particularly significant this regard. More interestingly, indicated there single influence suggested correlation between regions should considered regional land use planning improve Moreover, balanced according actual demand economic agricultural development, so full reasonable allocation cultivated among regions.