A Conceptual Analysis of the Interests of Involving Parties in Land Expropriation and Transfer and the Impacts on Cultivated Land Protection

The purpose of this study is to explore the expropriation compensation system,the economic reason of social problems caused by land transfer system,and their impacts on cultivated land protection policies in China.Methods employed include economic analysis and model analysis.The study explains the economic reasons for the interest protection for peasants whose land is expropriated or transfered and phenomena such low-price expropriation and high-price transfer or high-price expropriation and low-price transfer.In the study,a land expropriation-transfer market-correlated model is proposed and an analysis of the characteristics and interests of the involving parties of the virtual land expropriation-transfer interacting market conducted.It is concluded that as long as the government has the motive of using land for arbitrage,the virtual market can not be totally balanced.Cost of cultivated land protection under optimal land redevelopment is measured and suggestions are given.