Over the forty years since reform and opening up,China’s rural land system has undergone a drastic transition from the Two Rights Separation to the Three Rights Separation.Any examination of the latter must be ground...Over the forty years since reform and opening up,China’s rural land system has undergone a drastic transition from the Two Rights Separation to the Three Rights Separation.Any examination of the latter must be grounded in the crucial field of land transfer.Our fieldwork in different areas across China revealed that the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization has driven a drastic increase in the intensive,large-scale transfer of land.As a result,the traditional small-farmer economy is disintegrating,accompanied by a widening distance between farmers and the land.In practice,the Three Rights Separation system exhibits some new characteristics:the growing substantiation of the ownership rights of the village collective,the demutualization of the contracting rights of farm households and the marketization of management rights.At the same time,in practice we have also seen a strengthening of the position of those enjoying ownership rights and management rights and a weakening of the position of those possessing contracting rights.To change the rural land system and accomplish its goal of rural revitalization,China must endeavor to construct a new type of collective market economy.展开更多
基金National Social Science Fund of China key project“Research on the Implementation and Transitional Path of the Basic Rural Operation System in China”(14ZDA036)
文摘Over the forty years since reform and opening up,China’s rural land system has undergone a drastic transition from the Two Rights Separation to the Three Rights Separation.Any examination of the latter must be grounded in the crucial field of land transfer.Our fieldwork in different areas across China revealed that the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization has driven a drastic increase in the intensive,large-scale transfer of land.As a result,the traditional small-farmer economy is disintegrating,accompanied by a widening distance between farmers and the land.In practice,the Three Rights Separation system exhibits some new characteristics:the growing substantiation of the ownership rights of the village collective,the demutualization of the contracting rights of farm households and the marketization of management rights.At the same time,in practice we have also seen a strengthening of the position of those enjoying ownership rights and management rights and a weakening of the position of those possessing contracting rights.To change the rural land system and accomplish its goal of rural revitalization,China must endeavor to construct a new type of collective market economy.