This study investigates the Chinese government’s operational patterns through the lens of its effort to urbanize China. It argues that the changes occurred in China’s land market indicates the state relies on power concentration to solve issues caused by the fragmentation in its political and economic systems. The study observes that after the Chinese government commodified its land in 1988 as a way to accumulate the essential funding for economic development, multiple socio-economic problems arose, which the central government then attempted to resolve through concentrating power over land to municipal governments. During this process, municipal governments became the legitimate owners of land in China and managed to ameliorate some existing problems. However, the power concentration also generated new issues, prompting the central state to concentrate power again through political campaigns. This thesis also argues that the concentration of power over land is consistent with the general pattern of operation of the Chinese government, which relies on political experimentation due to the fragmentation of its political system.