Welfare Balance of Different Interest Groups During Rural-urban Land Conversion

Rural-urban land conversion is currently a common social economic phenomenon during the process of economic development and rural urbanization in China. Rural-urban land conversion is positively effective as far as social and economic benefits are concerned (Yang, 2002), but its negative effect is also evident, resulting in such problems as low efficiency of rural land configuration and loss of social welfare. Consequently, farm-ers should also have an equal chance to enjoy the social welfare enhanced by land conversion. Based on the theories of welfare economy, this paper puts forward policy suggestions by discussing the welfare changes of various interest groups, builds the model of welfare distribution, and analyzes the conditions of maximizing social welfare. The absolute and opposite value of social welfare is closely related with the speed of rural-urban land conversion, and governments should give farmers and collectives fair compensa-tion to make up for the utility loss caused by land expropriation, which are conclusions drawn from this paper. This study aims to provide a theoretical basis for regulating targets and evaluation criteria, realizing the mechanism and implementation of public po-lices during rural-urban land conversion.

农地城市流转中不同权利主体的福利均衡分析

以福利经济学为理论基础,探讨了农地城市流转中不同权利主体的福利变化;通过建立农地城市流转的福利分配模型,得出结论:社会福利绝对量的大小和各权利主体所得相对量的大小均与一定阶段内农地城市流转的速度密切相关;政府应确定一个公平、合理的征地价格,才足以弥补农民失地后损失的经济收益和社会保障;并通过构建农地城市流转的社会福利函数,分析了社会福利最大化的实现条件,结果表明:必须按照农业用地边际生产效益等于非农用地边际生产效益的原则配置土地资源,方可兼顾农地非农化配置的效率和公平,并实现土地资源的可持续利用;最后,针对土地市场机制、收益分配机制和失地农民的社会保障机制提出了相关的政策建议。