Theoretical Research On The Rationality Evaluation For Highway Construction Land In Perspective Of Humanistic Economy

Highway transportation is the most fundamental and dominating transportation. Highway, therefore, becomes an imperative infrastructure. Highway construction must occupy land, and in many cases the occupation of farmland is inevitable. However, not only are the land resources the important strategic resources to national economy and people's livelihood, farmland lays a solid foundation for numerous peasants' living too. As a whole, speeding up the construction of highway infrastructure has become more and more pressing for the social and economic development of our country. But at the same time the land resources of our country have been restricting highway construction land, causing this contradiction unlikely to be resolved. While the unreasonable compensation for highway land expropriation does bring a series of negative effects on the peasants' fanning and living, resulting in a more difficult solution for 'Issues of agriculture, farmer and rural area'. Under such circumstances, it has become most urgent to research the rationality evaluation for highway construction land from the perspective of the humanistic economy which can offer theoretical basis and developing approaches for approval and initiation of the highway construction projects and for sustainable development of highway construction.This article is divided into three parts: namely, the construction of basic theoretical framework for rationality evaluation for highway construction land from the humanistic economy's perspective, the research on major evaluation contents of the theoretical framework, and last but not the least, the designing of the overall framework. In the first part, relevant theories on rationality evaluation are introduced, evaluation objects and the basic theoretical platform for rationality evaluation for highway construction land are determined and built. On this basis, from the point of the enlightenments resulting from rationality for highway construction land in perspective of the humanistic economy theory, this paper discusses the evaluation criteria, evaluation principles, evaluation dimensions and contents, building the basic theoretical framework for rationality evaluation of highway construction land from the perspective of humanistic economy, in which the ultimate value criterion has been emphasized - whether it meets human's overall and long-term requirements for happiness; and the major evaluation dimensions are the relationship between man and nature and the one among human beings; the main contents of evaluation include the rationality of the costs, effects and the compensations of the expropriation of highway construction land.In the second part, the paper makes a thorough analysis on those three evaluation contents mentioned above respectively. First of all, it defines the connotation of the cost for highway construction land, which includes the value that has to be given up, the necessary investment and the negative values on objective and subjective aspects. Combined with the life cost theory, it proposes that the basic evaluation criterion for the rationality of the cost of highway construction land should be whether it follows the principle for human's overall and long-term maximization of happiness at limited life costs. Specific criteria include the necessity of the cost, the operation feasibility, the beneficial effects and the fair distribution of the cost. The analyses' result indicates that for peasants, there are some inequities in distributing the highway construction land costs among different subjects. Moreover, this paper selects peasants - the main bearer of the cost of highway construction land - as the subject in the analyses of the effects rationality evaluation while the rural areas in which peasants live and farm are chosen as the spatial dimension of evaluation, resulting in quite a comprehensively qualitative analysis and quantitative evaluation on the rationality of effects on the occupied area in highway construction. The result of the analysis shows that although negative effects would be brought out by highway construction land, the comprehensive effects are justified for peasants. Finally, based on the analyses of the irrationality of compensational standards for land expropriation and for the principle of humanism and equality, the paper proposes that the reasonable compensations for land expropriation should include compensations for the requirements of subsistence, security, habitation and development of those influenced peasants, which would accelerate the realization of cost rationality of the highway construction land.In the final part, based on the rationality principle of the maximization of human beings' happiness and the minimality of life costs, this paper builds the overall framework of the rationality evaluation for highway construction land, namely, the theoretical evaluation framework of land intensive use for highway construction for the efficiency of land utilization.