The Research Of The Transfer Of Farmland In Jilin Province After The Reform Of The Taxes And Administrative Charges

From the reform on agricultural taxes in 2000 to the complete tax exemption in 2006, many milestone-like agriculture-favoring policies have been implemented. Jilin Province is one of two pilot provinces that exempted agricultural tax in 2004. At the same time, Chinese government began to increase agriculture subsidies.The implementation of agriculture-favoring policies caused profound effects on the transfer of farm land in Jilin Province. To begin with, peasants put more importance on their contractual right of land; secondly, more peasants begin to return hometown for farming; thirdly, there is no burden of tax or charges on peasants, so that they can use the land at zero cost; fourthly, there are more conflicts on land transfer in rural area; finally, the number of land transfer has decreased obviously. Therefore, we need to analyze the trend of farm land transfer after agricultural tax reform in Jilin province deeply, so that relevant measures can be put forward.This thesis takes the trend of farm land transfer in Jilin province after agricultural tax reform as study object and analyzed the impact and restraints on farm land transfer caused by various factors, such as owner rights of farmland, rural labor shift, land transfer market, and peasants'wishes.This thesis analyzed several questions as follows, to begin with, the positive effect of farmland transfer in Jilin province; secondly, the trend of farmland transfer from the perspective of owner rights; thirdly, the current status of rural labor shift, the problems in rural market for farmland transfer and peasants'wishes and behaviors. This thesis is divided into nine chapters.Introduction briefs the necessity of this topic, the object, aim , and method of this research, as well as the structure and system of this thesis.Chapter one is a general introduction to farmland transfer. Through the analysis of peasants'micro-decision-making model, a decrease in real opportunity cost of farming after the agricultural tax reform. The smaller the cost of agriculture, the more lands will be put into farming, and the more active peasants will be. At the same time, this chapter analyzes major factors restraining the transfer, such as land contract rights, labor movement, transfer market growth and wishes of peasants.Chapter two is the analysis of current status and effect of farmland transfer in Jilin province. The author believes that currently grass-roots leaders have definite ideas on farmland transfer, the scope of transfer is getting larger. The transfer means a lot to Jilin province, its effects on economic development is becoming obvious.Chapter three discusses the formation and trend of farmland ownership in Jilin province. The household contract responsibility system is still the basic farmland ownership system in Jilin province, the changing trend is the transfer of land-use right.Chapter four carries out related analysis of farmland transfer and rural labor shift in Jilin province. Through the relevant test of serial correlation between farmland transfer quantity and rural labor shift quantity in Jilin province, a positive correlation can be found between farmland transfer and rural labor shift, and the correlation coefficient(R) reaches 0.994. It shows that rural labor shift affects farmland transfer heavily. After the tax reform, lots of peasants return for farming, thus the transfer is restrained.Chapter five analyzes the farmland transfer market in Jilin province. Currently, this market is at a beginning stage and grows slowly. Besides the common restraints of ownership and system, the lack of rural social security in Jilin province greatly lower the possibility of farmland transfer.Chapter six analyzes the wishes and behaviors of peasants. After the tax reform, most of peasants in Jilin province are unwilling to transfer their land. Through the construction of Logistic model, some variables of peasants are analyzed, such as gender, age, marriage status, education, family type, family principal business, whether their children are studying in school, and diplomas of family members, so that the effects on farmland transfer can be found.Chapter seven deals with measures and proposals. It addresses the necessity and complexity of farmland transfer, so that the farmland transfer in Jilin province can be promoted firmly and actively. The author points out two problems in transfer that deserve attention, puts forward specific measures and proposals accordingly, and states relevant measures need to be taken. Finally, there is the conclusion of this thesis: The farmland transfer should be promoted actively and firmly, herd mentality should be avoided, and we should never push it against reality and peasants'wishes.