Benefit Protection of Rural Collectively-owned Land in the “Linkage Between Urban-land Taking and Rural-land Giving”(LUTRG) Project

The purpose of the paper is to propose measures for protecting rural collectively-owned land rights and interests through analyzing the proper way of land trade in the LUTRG project.Methods included literature review and policy analysis.The result showed that the rural land benefit could not be fully recognized due to the flaws of current property right system of rural land and the local governments'dependence on land transfer revenue for the purpose of enlarging local budget.The paper concluded with proposition aiming to ameliorate the LUTRG policy,such as 1) to clarify the legal status of collective land property;2) to completely register the collective land;3) to regulate the collective land transfer;and 4)to speed up the establishment of rural land price system.