Research on the Land Scale Control Model of Public Housing Construction in China: An Example of Harbin

Harbin possesses the largest housing stocks of Heilongjiang province, which provides accommodation for 3.3 million people, of which public housing is for about 210 thousand people. To meet the growing need for public housing, the government has committed to produce 73,650 public flat units in the next three year as its long-term housing policy. To meet this production target, the government officials are faced with the challenge of further speeding up the construction process. For this, the key issue is how to achieve the effective supply of construction-land, especially in the increasing process of rapid urbanization in China. In this paper, based on the data of National Bureau of Statistics of China and Harbin Bureau of Statistics, key factors of public housing construction-land scale have been analyzed to control the reasonable pattern of construction land. Because of the dynamic natures of Harbin economy and population development, an intelligent control model based on least squares support vector machines is presented to improve the construction-land management process. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of [CEIS 2011]