Factors affecting farmers' satisfaction with contemporary China's land allocation policy – The Link Policy: Based on the empirical research of Ezhou

Cheng, Long; Liu, Yan; Brown, Greg; Searle, Glen

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2018.04.004

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“…First among the interesting insights we have gained from this study, the results shown in Table 5 and Table 6 revealed that farmers’ ES has a significant and positive effect on PS, with total factor loading at 0.632 including direct effect (β = 0.355; p < 0.001), through PE (β = 0.059; p = 0.012), through PPV (β = 0.143; p < 0.001), and through PE and PPV (β = 0.075; p < 0.001). This outcome supports previous studies’ findings that showed ES as a key factor with a positive effect on linking PS and influencing farmers’ willing withdrawal from homesteads [ 62 ]. This is because ES is related to farmers’ education, ideology, and comprehensive quality.…”

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Farmers’ Economic Status and Satisfaction with Homestead Withdrawal Policy: Expectation and Perceived Value

Zhao

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2020

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The withdrawal of homesteads is an effective way to improve the efficiency of rural construction land use and is being piloted in many regions of China, but the mechanism influencing farmers’ satisfaction with the withdrawal policy is unclear. This paper aimed to investigate the relationships among farmers’ economic status (ES), policy expectation (PE), policy perceived value (PPV), and farmers’ satisfaction with homestead withdrawal policy (policy satisfaction; PS). The study examined the mediating effects of PE and PPV on the relationship between ES and PS. The data obtained from a questionnaire of 287 households in Jinhu County, Jiangsu Province, China. After surviving from reliability and validity tests, a structural equation modeling (SEM) with latent variables was specified and estimated using Mplus. From the study results, we found significant positive relationships between ES, PP, and PS, but significant negative relationships between ES, PE, PPV, and PS. Also, our research found PE and PPV as potential mediators on ES-PS relation. We propose recommendations from three aspects to improve farmers’ satisfaction with future implementations of the homestead withdrawal policy. Our results provided new insights into how to improve the performance of homestead withdrawal policy.

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confidence: 91%

Farmers’ Economic Status and Satisfaction with Homestead Withdrawal Policy: Expectation and Perceived Value

Zhao

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2020

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“…Given China’s strict controls over land use, rural residential land—which includes people’s sprawling houses, barns, sheds, and vegetable plots—is of great interest to local governments. Under the so‐called Link Policy (Cheng et al, 2018), there can be no net loss of farmland in a local jurisdiction: any additional urban construction must be met by an equal increase in farmland somewhere else. One way of achieving this is to move farmers out of villages and into consolidated settlements and then convert their rural residential land to farmland.…”

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China’s rapidly evolving practice of poverty resettlement: Moving millions to eliminate poverty

Rogers

et al. 2020

Development Policy Review

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Motivation Unlike other places where resettlement is largely a by‐product of large infrastructure projects, in China resettlement is used as a tool for poverty alleviation. With the introduction of Xi Jinping’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation, and the goal to end absolute poverty by 2020, resettlement has become central to China’s poverty‐alleviation practice. Rather than investing in dispersed, remote villages, the Chinese government prefers to bring people to development by constructing high‐density resettlement sites in small towns and peri‐urban areas: up to 16 million people are being resettled between 2016 and 2020. Despite the scale of these interventions, the English‐language literature on poverty resettlement is limited and has yet to detail rapidly evolving policies or how these are playing out on the ground. Purpose In this article we examine how poverty resettlement projects are working under Targeted Poverty Alleviation, with a focus on the implementation and impacts of, as well as overlapping motives for, projects in Shaanxi and Gansu. Approach and Methods Our analysis draws on semi‐structured interviews and secondary data collected in multiple sites in two provinces. Findings Our findings show that China’s intense focus on resettlement as a tool for poverty alleviation has resulted in reduced financial burdens on those resettled, but is also engendering new conflicts at the local level. Policy implications Our analysis highlights the contested nature of state‐driven resettlement for poverty alleviation and raises questions about the relevance of this practice for other developing countries.

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“…In order to resolve this land use problem, the Ministry of Land and Resources issued and experimented with a land use policy titled "Linking increases in urban construction land with decreases in rural construction land (Chengxiang Jianshe Yongdi Zengjian Guagou)" (or simply, the "Link Policy," or LP) in 2005 [44,58,59]. Under this scheme, farmers are relocated from scattered villages to concentrated communities while their original homesteads are reclaimed into farmland, thus enabling the transfer of construction land quotas to cities [60]. In 2008, the Chinese government officially enacted a general regulation on the LP which stipulated that it must be implemented within the county-administered boundary in order to promote industrial diffusion and regional balance [61].…”

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Evaluating Poverty Alleviation by Relocation under the Link Policy: A Case Study from Tongyu County, Jilin Province, China

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Land, nature, and the social environment in contiguous poor regions are harsh and difficult to change. The poor adaptive capacities of the socio-ecological systems of these regions are the main causes of deep, persistent poverty. In February 2016, the Chinese government issued a policy proposing to promote poverty alleviation by relocation (PAR) by means of the "Linking increases in urban construction land with decreases in rural construction land" policy (or simply, the "Link Policy" or LP), which intends to realize the sustainable social and economic development of local villages. Since then, many pilot projects have been carried out across the country based on local resources, environment, and economic development; however, few related studies on these cases have been conducted. After a review of poverty alleviation policies, this paper first introduces the unsustainable conditions of poor rural areas and the implications and advantages of PAR under the Link Policy; we then analyzed the complete PAR process, including formulation, implementation, and completion, by taking Tongyu County in Jilin Province as an example. The study found that the "whole village relocation" model practiced in Tongyu County was relatively successful in terms of improving the living environment, income, and public services of local villagers. On the other hand, there were three main problems: first, many follow-up industries were dominated by the village collectives and heavily dependent on government support or subsidies; second, the newly built village faced the dilemma of "re-hollowing" due to the out-migration of young people and the aging population; third, it was difficult to achieve a true requisition-compensation balance of farmland.

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Factors affecting farmers' satisfaction with contemporary China's land allocation policy – The Link Policy: Based on the empirical research of Ezhou

Cited by 52 publications

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Farmers’ Economic Status and Satisfaction with Homestead Withdrawal Policy: Expectation and Perceived Value

Farmers’ Economic Status and Satisfaction with Homestead Withdrawal Policy: Expectation and Perceived Value

China’s rapidly evolving practice of poverty resettlement: Moving millions to eliminate poverty

Evaluating Poverty Alleviation by Relocation under the Link Policy: A Case Study from Tongyu County, Jilin Province, China

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