A Study On The Functions Of Local Governments For Land-lost Farmers' Social Security

With the rapid progress of industrialization and urbanization in China, it is a logical necessity that a large number of land-lost farmers appear. Now, the legal standard of social security of land-lost farms is low, which is incommensurate to their developing needs. It is the responsibility of the local government to make great effort to study and find the solution to the situation of social security of land-lost farmers, such as living, employment, development, and so on, and raise their administrative efficacy to provide with better service and higher security for land-lost farmers by means of economy and market. Taking Guangzhou Development District as the object of study, this paper summarizes its good experiences in and expounds its effect on solving the problem of social security of land-lost farmers as a subject of legal responsibility.This paper studies on the relationship between land expropriation and functions of local governments, and make it clear that the local government should supply with social security institutions for land-lost farmers to adapt to the urban life. It is the obligation and responsibility of the government according to both its economic function and social function to establish a good system of social security. By analyzing the supply and demand balance of security systems of land-lost farmers, this paper points out that it is insufficient of resettlement institutions of land-lost farmers at present. Local governments should positively create condition to result in the organic integration of all kinds of resources via a series of inducing institutional transformation in the development of market economy so as to offer effective system supply to land-lost farmers.The most important problem to solve urgently is how to ensure the realization of the right to subsistence of land-lost farmers after land expropriation. Otherwise, the legitimacy and validity of local governments will come under question. From the perspective of social equity and justice, land-lost peasants contribute so much to the urbanization that they should enjoy the achievements of the urbanization, i.e., have the rights of land development. But the truth is that they have been excluded from this right. This is illegitimate. The governments must help the land-lost farmers to realize their land development rights and make more and more people enjoy the prosperity of economy to the best of their ability through the growth of regional economy. Only by this can the problems of social security and long-term livelihood guarantee system of land-lost farmers be solved fundamentally.