Game

The Segmentation, Implementation and Protection of Land Rights in China

This book provides a thorough analysis of the evolution of land property rights and transfer mechanism during the transition of the Chinese society from being a traditional self-sustaining agricultural society to a modern commercialized agricultural society. It provides empirical proof for complicated property rights theories and a solution and path for land capitalization. It discloses that in practice, land ownership may not be the essence and knot of the problem, and that the implementation of land property rights really matters.

The book also provides a series of pragmatic solutions and measures to improve the current land law system and land policy in China. It stresses the importance of a pragmatic research methodology that is based on arguments on real life research and evidence, which may help promote a more grounded research atmosphere in the Chinese academia.

Contents:

• Implementation and Protection of Land Property Rights in the Context of Urbanization:

  • Introduction
  • Current Land Policies and Their Implementation: Results and Evaluation
  • Local Experiences and Policy Innovation: Cases and Analysis
  • Suggestions on Policy Improvement and Law Amendment

• Implementation and Protection of Property Rights in Collective Construction Land — Involving the Issue of "Sub-Rights" Rural Housing:

  • Introduction and Definition
  • Transition and Analysis of Collective Construction Land System: Based on Rural Homestead
  • Methods and Effects of the Government's Management and Law Enforcement on Collective Construction Land
  • Worrying Signs in the Comprehensive Reform Experiment of Overall Planning for Urban and Rural Construction Lands: Is the Homestead Exchange for House a Breakthrough?
  • Innovations and Experiments by Farmers, Collectives and Local Governments
  • The "Sub-Right" Houses: Contention and Implementation of Property and Development Rights of Farmers
  • Way to Go in the Reform and Policy Suggestions
  • Revision of Related Laws

• Land Transfer and Agricultural Modernization:

  • Introduction
  • Evolution and Characteristics of Policies over Land Transfer and Large-Scale Management
  • Cases on Land Transfer and Scale Management
  • Land Transfer, Organizational Transition and Agricultural Modernization: Analysis and Discussion Based on Cases
  • Policy Suggestions

• Appendix: Thesis Seminar: Land System Reform of China

• Afterword

• Index

Readership: Academics, undergraduate and graduates students, professionals interested in China's polices and protections of the land rights and property rights in its urbanization and agricultural modernization.
Key Features:

• Comprehensive and in-depth analysis on China's land problems
• First-hand materials from author's field investigation, including 16 case studies from Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong Province, Jiangsu Province, Liaoning Province, Guangdong Province, Sichuan Province and Chongqing
• Original research on the game between central and local governments over land property rights, the implementation of property rights, and the modernization of agriculture as a result of land transfer