China completed the pilot project of rural land reform at the end of 2017

A few days ago, three pilot opinions on the reform of the rural land system, such as rural land expropriation, collective construction land and the reform of the homestead system, were issued, indicating that the reform of China's rural land system is about to enter the pilot stage. Jiang Daming, minister of land and resources, said that the pilot will be selected among the new comprehensive pilot areas for urbanization and rural reform, and will operate in a closed manner to ensure that the risks can be controlled. The pilot work will be completed by the end of 2017.

Jiang Daming pointed out that there are four main tasks in the reform pilot project:

First, improve the land expropriation system. In view of the problems such as the scope of land expropriation is too large, the procedures are not standardized, and the security mechanism for land expropriated farmers is not perfect, it is necessary to narrow the scope of land expropriation, explore the formulation of land expropriation catalogues, strictly define the scope of land use for public interests, standardize the procedures of land expropriation, establish a risk assessment system for social stability, improve the mediation mechanism for contradictions and disputes, comprehensively disclose land expropriation information, and improve the reasonable, standardized and diversified security mechanism for land expropriated farmers.

The second is to establish the system of entering the market of rural collective construction land. In view of the incompleteness of the right to use land for rural collective management construction, the lack of equal access to the market, the same right and the same price, and the urgent need to improve the transaction rules, it is necessary to improve the property right system of rural collective management construction land. give rural collective construction land transfer, leasing and shareholding rights; clarify the scope and ways for rural collective construction land to enter the market; establish and improve market trading rules and service supervision system.

The third is to reform and improve the rural homestead system. In view of the difficulties in obtaining, extensive utilization and unsmooth withdrawal of farmers' homestead, it is necessary to improve the protection and acquisition of the rights and interests of homestead, and explore various forms of realization of farmers' housing security in different areas. to explore the paid use of excessive occupation of homestead and multiple houses in one household due to historical reasons, and to explore the voluntary and paid withdrawal or transfer of homestead by farmers settled in cities within their collective economic organizations. Reform the examination and approval system of homestead and give full play to the democratic management role of villagers' self-governing organizations.

The fourth is to establish a land value-added income distribution mechanism that takes into account the state, collectives and individuals, and reasonably improve individual income. In view of the imperfect distribution mechanism of land value-added income and the lack of interests among the state, collectives and individuals, it is necessary to establish and improve the distribution methods and relevant institutional arrangements of land value-added income between the state and the collective and within the collective economic organizations.

With regard to the scope and time requirements of the pilot selection, Jiang Daming said that the requirements of the reform pilot are, first, to adhere to small-scale pilot projects. Overall planning the eastern, central, western and northeast regions, taking into account different stages and models of development, mainly in the new urbanization comprehensive pilot and rural reform pilot areas, select a number of basic and conditional counties or county-level cities to carry out. The second is to persist in reform in accordance with the law. The pilot project involves breaking through the relevant legal provisions, which needs to be submitted by the State Council to the standing Committee of the National people's Congress for authorization to allow the pilot areas to suspend the implementation of relevant legal provisions during the pilot period. The third is to persist in closed operation. The pilot project is strictly restricted to counties (cities) authorized by law, and non-pilot areas should not blindly compare with others and act without authorization to ensure that the pilot project is closed and the risk can be controlled. The pilot work will be completed by the end of 2017.