Life satisfaction approach to farmers' compensation for land acquisition:empirical study from the suburbs of Wuhan City

Farmers' compensation for land acquisition is not only critical to increasing their income and to playing a pivotal role in maintaining rural stability,but also to the promotion of sustainable land use.Based on analysis of Chinese land acquisition policy under the Land Management Law,which provides principles or guidelines for determining compensation according to agricultural land use in regard to farmers' previous quality of life,the Life Satisfaction Approach is introduced in this article to evaluate farmers' compensation for land acquisition.Employing data from a questionnaire survey on 346 farming households in Wuhan Suburbs,this article examined the influence of farmland on farmers' life satisfaction and evaluated the level of compensation for land acquisition.Results show that farmland has a significantly positive impact on life satisfaction,which fell by 0.033 on a five-point scale following a reduction farmland by of 1 mu.Respondents were willing to accept approximately RMB 3066.44 annual household income for the loss of 1 mu farmland;the level of compensation after discounting by 6.2%is RMB 750,000 per hectare.It was found in a further comparative study that the level of farmers' compensation for land acquisition is decidedly low,and it was also shown that their compensation standards,as well as the actual compensation,could be substantially improved by expanding economic compensation to non-economic compensation to embody farmland multifunction in terms of production and non-production against farmers' previous quality of life.This article proposes a compensation model that enriches the content of land acquisition compensation,extends the current literature on measuring compensation,and provides economic theory bases for increasing compensation standards and improving policies related to land acquisition.We consider that if this compensation model is applied,it could raise the cost of land acquisition and improve usage of land,reduce the speed of rural-urban land conversion,and improve farmers' well-being.

农用地生态价值与农用地基准地价确定——以武汉市为例

本文通过分析农用地生态服务功能,基于单位面积生态价值当量因子法,以行政村为评价单元,计算出武汉市远城区每个行政村单位面积农用地生态价值大小,并在此基础上将武汉市农用地分为5个级别,以期为全市范围内的农用地价值评估提供参考。结果显示:武汉市远城区每亩农用地生态服务价值为3 901元/年到7 263元/年。从空间分布上来看,武汉市远城区农用地级别大体上与区位条件成正相关,离武汉市中心城区越远的农用地,其生态价值级别也越低;远城区1、2级农用地围绕武汉市中心城区呈环状分布,而5级农用地则主要分布在黄陂区、新洲区和汉南区。

Quantitative Analysis of Influence Force of Shanghai Expo on GGDP

Quantitative study of the impact of Shanghai World Expo on green GDP （GGDP） is significant for deploying sustainable development policy in China. The formula of GGDP is： GGDP = GDP--the loss of natural resources environment relegation cost ＋ comprehensive utilized value of waste. Based on this, the study employed vector autoregressive （VAR） model to predict the value of GGDP and other economic variables on condition that there was no Shanghai World Expo. Then Influence of Expo is defined as the rate of increase of GGDP. The result demonstrated that Shanghai World Expo had accelerated the growth rate of GGDP vastly with the elimination of effect of Beijing Olympics. Additionally, the quantitative analysis between GGDP and other economic variables suggested GGDP would replace GDP to evaluate the development of economy. Finally, the paper proposed that incidents like World Expo can enhance the level of influence for a country and that post-impact of Shanghai Expo should continue to be used to promote GGDP and that GGDP should serve as one of the indicators in assessment of political achievement.

武汉城市圈土地财政区域差异与转型研究

以武汉城市圈48个行政区为例,运用统计分析、聚类分析、定量比较方法,测度了2011、2013、2015年不同行政区的土地财政规模及依赖度,分析了土地财政依赖度区域差异,将48个行政区按照土地财政起步、发展、繁荣、鼎盛的不同时期划分为4类区域,并结合各区域经济发展状况、土地资源禀赋、城镇化水平提出相应转型建议。研究表明:2011—2015年,武汉城市圈土地出让金规模和土地财政依赖度均出现先升后降的现象,2011年武汉城市圈土地财政依赖度为43.40%,2013年为48.00%,2015年为31.93%,5年间降低了11.47个百分点;各行政区之间土地财政依赖度区域差异明显,高度发达城区尚未摆脱对土地财政的严重依赖,为今后土地财政相关制度的改革提供了参考依据。