Study on Definition of Rural Land Development Rights and itsApplication in Rural Land Protection: Institutional Innovationon Existing Land Property System

The purpose of the paper is to study the meaning of rural land development rights and its application in rural land protection field based on the analysis of existing land property system and rural land protection policies. Method of theoretical analysis and comparative analysis were employed. The results indicate that it is getting stronger and stronger to introduce rural land development rights into China in order to solve problems concerning land use. In fact, the introduction and application of rural land development rights would be an elastic tool to carry out national macro policy to regulate land administration. It would play important roles in the implementation of land policies such as land expropriation, land reserve and land use planning, etc.