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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (33): 301-307.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.2014-0611

Special Issue: 现代农业发展与乡村振兴

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Land Consolidation Potential of Rural Housing Land in China

  

  • Received:2014-03-09 Revised:2014-11-17 Accepted:2014-09-12 Online:2015-01-08 Published:2015-01-08

Abstract: Due to the lack of land use type of rural housing land in the current land use classification system in China, the land consolidation potential of rural housing land (LCPL) in China is deficiency, against the work arrangement of land consolidation of rural housing land. The author established three methods to calculate the LCPL in China, i.e. method of modifying the land consolidation potential of rural settlement, method of rural housing land standard per farm household and method of shrinking rural population. Method of modifying the land consolidation potential of rural settlement showed that the LCPL in China in 2020 was about 239.05×104 hm2. Results of methods of rural housing land standard per farm household and shrinking rural population were about 597.50×104 hm2 and 130.36×104 hm2 respectively. Method of rural housing land standard per farm household obviously overestimated the LCPL in China due to not considering the natural, economic and social limitations in land consolidation process of rural housing land. After a comprehensive modification, LCPL calculated by this method decreased to 191.20×104 hm2. Taking into full accounts of the three methods’results, LCPL in China in 2020 would be about 200×104 hm2. In spatial, LCPL in eastern and central China was high while LCPL in northeastern and western China was low. Among different provinces, LCPL in Shandong, Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, Liaoning and Heilongjiang was high, while that in Tibet, Qinghai, Shanghai, Fujian and Hainan was low.