The large-scale operating area of rural land has reached 59.71 million mu.

By the end of October, the rural land transfer area in Heilongjiang Province had reached 65.07 million mu, an increase of 16.2% over last year. The large-scale operating area of rural land reached 59.71 million mu, an increase of 17.1% over last year.

The transfer of rural land in provinces and cities across the country has made rapid progress. According to the incomplete statistics of Caixin reporter, by the end of 2013, the proportion of rural land transfer area to household contracted cultivated land area in Henan, Anhui and other provinces and cities is relatively high, both exceeding 30%. Among them, Henan reached 32.16 million mu and Anhui reached 20.1237 million mu. According to relevant statistics disclosed by the Ministry of Agriculture, as early as the end of 2012, the rural land transfer area in Heilongjiang Province exceeded 40 million mu, accounting for 35.7% of household contracted arable land.

Nationwide, data from the Ministry of Agriculture show that by the end of June 2014, the transferred area of household contracted cultivated land nationwide was 380 million mu, accounting for 28.8% of the total household contracted cultivated land, an increase of 20 percentage points over the end of 2008.

At the same time, the opinions on guiding the orderly transfer of rural land management rights to develop appropriate scale operation of agriculture (hereinafter referred to as "opinions") recently examined and approved by the central government outlines the train of thought for rural land transfer. The "opinion" proposes that under the premise of adhering to the collective ownership of rural land, we should promote the separation of the right of contract and the right of management, and form a pattern of the separation of ownership, the right of contract and the right of management, and the transfer of the right of management. we will cultivate and support diversified new types of agricultural operators and develop appropriate scale operations in agriculture.

Rural land circulation mainly includes subcontract, lease, shareholding, transfer, exchange and other forms, as well as professional large household management, cooperative management, collective management, enterprise management four types. On October 17, Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu said in a public explanation on the content of the "opinion" that the transfer of rural land has been accelerating in recent years. The inflows of the whole country are mainly peasant households, but the proportion of transfer to new agricultural operators such as cooperatives and leading enterprises is gradually increasing; subcontracting among members of rural collective economic organizations is still the main form of circulation, but the proportion of circulation forms such as rental and joint-stock cooperation has increased rapidly.

The bottom line of China's rural land transfer is to ensure that the transferred land is used for agricultural production, with emphasis on supporting large-scale grain production. Data released by Heilongjiang Province also show that large growers (family farms) in Heilongjiang Province have increased grain production by about 8% through large-scale operation, and agricultural machinery cooperatives have increased grain production by about 15%, reaching a maximum of more than 20%, achieving a sustained increase in agricultural production.

The opinion defines the large-scale operation of rural land as "appropriate scale". At the same time, in view of the two situations, the document puts forward the requirements of key support, which can be regarded as an interpretation of the "appropriate scale", that is, the income from farming on the scale of land management is equivalent to the income of workers in the secondary and tertiary industries. if the scale of land management is equivalent to 10 to 15 times the area of land contracted by local households, key support will be given.

Han Changfu also mentioned that there are more than 200 million farmers in China, and there will still be a large number of small-scale farmers for a long time, while international experience shows that small and medium-sized agricultural operators need to rely more on social service organizations to ensure market competitiveness. Social services include the expansion of agricultural technology promotion, animal and plant epidemic prevention, supervision of the quality and safety of agricultural products, and the pilot purchase of agricultural public welfare services by the government.