Let farmers become the beneficiaries of land development

The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued the opinions on Rural Land expropriation, the entry of Collective Construction Land into the Market, and the pilot work of Homestead system Reform. The core goal of the reform is to enter the market of agricultural land, including: to explore and improve the land expropriation system with standardized procedures, reasonable compensation and diversified protection, and the rural collective construction land entry system with the same right and price, smooth circulation and income sharing; the homestead system of fair acquisition, economical and intensive use and voluntary and paid withdrawal in accordance with the law.

The introduction of the "opinion" indicates that the reform of China's rural land system is about to enter the pilot stage. Rural land expropriation and entry into the market are proposed under the background that the market determines the allocation of resources and the new type of urbanization, which means that the reform of agricultural land transfer system has the conditions and has become an irreversible trend.

In fact, the core of the reform is to enable the vast number of agricultural land dependents to obtain practical benefits in the process of land expropriation and transfer. Agricultural land is no longer cheap, is no longer the "reserve" of urban land, urban expansion, land development and so on, can no longer easily obtain the "scissors difference" of agricultural land. To put it bluntly, farmers are no longer the object of deprivation.

It has almost become a common impression that when it comes to agricultural land expropriation and development, it is always accompanied by certain contradictions and conflicts. The news of forced demolitions and petitions is mostly staged on agricultural land. Of course, there is a problem with the compensation system, and it is also necessary to strengthen the means of regulation and protection in law, but at the root, a group of farmers without "market price" and a group of farmers who do not have the market bargaining power are doomed to get no fundamental protection. Even, "compensation" is an ugly term, which means that the release of land by farmers is only a contribution, the process of land development, use and value-added, by extension, in the process of development, they are thrown out of the track. The purpose of farmland reform is to fundamentally change this phenomenon.

The third Plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee clearly pointed out that it is an important task to carry out the three reforms of rural land expropriation, collective construction land into the market, and homestead system. We can see that the content of this pilot work has been carried out from these three directions, and the goal is clearly aimed at establishing a unified urban and rural construction land market, allowing farmers to share the land value-added benefits of the urbanization process, in order to reduce inequality in urban and rural areas, it is undoubtedly of great significance to achieve win-win development between the government and farmers, rural and urban areas, which is worth affirming.

It must be made clear that the essence of the rural land system is to clarify and protect the rights and interests of farmers. fundamentally speaking, it is up to the peasants to decide what price and how long it is up to the peasants to decide whether the land is transferred or not. If farmers sell the land they originally used because of the requirements of urbanization, they must become the beneficiaries of this process, and they should also obtain enough original capital to become the new urban population in this process. This is a healthy urbanization model, and the fairness and legitimacy of the reform can also be demonstrated.

The problem of rural land system reform has been put forward for a long time, but it has not been broken through for a long time. The core reason is that the definition of land property right is vague. Under the current policy, the "collective" is the main body of rural land ownership, but the right to use has always been unclear, and there is no explanation on the relationship between the right to use and property rights. some local governments engage in land development, resulting in the loss of power restrictions and restrictions, resulting in the loss of farmers' interests, such as random land transfer, undervaluation of land value and low compensation standards.

The reform of the rural land system can not be achieved overnight, it has been put forward for many years, but there is no breakthrough behind the complexity needs to be carefully studied and paid attention to. However, clearly defining the rights of the subject and standardizing the behavior of the subject is the basis and premise. Respecting the individual demands of farmers, protecting their land rights, promoting and highlighting the fairness between urban and rural areas is the original intention that should not be violated, and the core purpose of the reform should not be forgotten for a moment.