Integrated models for reactivating rural land:land transformation and land consolidation

With the multidimensional drive system by agricultural land fragmentation, idle rural housing land,extensive land use, farmland protection and the new four modernizations, smooth transfer of rural land and efficient integration of urban-rural resources become difficulties of innovation of the coupling mechanism between land transformation and land consolidation. In this paper, the modes of both rural land property rights transfer and land consolidation were discussed by documentary data analysis. The results indicated that land transformation focused on land use rights transfer and income redistribution. Agricultural land consolidation refered to land natural attributes or land-use changes. Rural housing land rehabilitation, new rural and land-use policy on linking the increase in land used for urban with the decrease in land used for rural construction were to optimize the spatial structure of urban-rural land, and to enhance overall effects of land. The mode of rural land property rights transfer and engineering modes of farmland, rural road, water conservancy facilities, farmland shelterbelts, as well as rural housing land were formed in the specific areas or under specific objectives. The coupling model of land transformation and land consolidation has not yet been formed. Thence, how to construct a coordination development chain through bi-directional strength of land use policy and engineering measures is the key point of the innovation of the coupling mode of land transformation and land consolidation. As to the coupling model, we should not only break through the obstacles of the rural land property rights system, but also weaken or eliminate the negative effects(e.g. the impacts of the agricultural infrastructure's irrational allocation on new cultivated land, the impacts of land fragmentation and poor rural infrastructure on modern agriculture, and the impacts of urban-rural dual structure on free flows of urban-rural land resources), and be consistent with the development trend of the regional natural-social-economic-ecologicalenvironmental conditions.