Rural Residential Land Consolidation and Zoning for Jiangdu City in Jiangsu Province

Taking Jiangdu City in Jiangsu Province as a study area,a comprehensive evaluation index system was built concerning three aspects: landscape distribution of rural residential area,capability of rural residential land consolidation and its demands.Then rural residential land consolidation was zoned based on the comprehensive evaluation result and per capita rural residential land area.The empirical result suggested that rural residential area in Jiangdu City should be divided into priority consolidation area,key consolidation A area,key consolidation B area,moderate consolidation area and optimal consolidation area.Priority consolidation area should focus on urban-rural integration and accelerate pace of urban-rural coordination development;key consolidation A area should focus on rural space reconstruction based on economic fundamentals;and key consolidation B area should strengthen idle land remediation combined with arrangement of small-scale village relocation.It was inappropriate to carry out large-scale remediation activities in moderate consolidation area and it was more proper to arrange idle land remediation step by step there.Optimal consolidation area should mainly optimize rural residential land internal structure,while controlling the expansion of residential land.Rural residential land consolidation was zoned according to comprehensive evaluation score and per capita residential area,which may provide a scientific basis for the order and content of rural residential land consolidation.