land tickets
地票 dì piào

Tradeable credits that villagers can acquire by converting residential or commercial plots into farmland. Because quota rules require a constant ratio of farmland to commercial land, developers are willing to buy land tickets so they can construct new commerical projects elsewhere. But local governments have abused land tickets in most pilots, expropriating land without adequate compensation to offset revenue shortages link
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