Research On Farmers’-will-oriented Compensation For Land Expropriation

Land means root to the farmers, which calls for balanced relationship between the two parties, since it is one of the elements of urbanization in our country. The research on compensation for land expropriation is of great significance in the promotion of China’s rural economic development, in the improvement of farmers’living standards, and the enhancement of the stability of rural areas and even that of the whole society. As a consequence, how to get the compensation for rural land expropriation reasonably solved enjoys great popularity in academic field. Among all the problems in land expropriation, the factor related to people takes priority for attention. Full understanding of farmers’will can ease the complex conflict during the process. Therefore, it is theoretically and practically profound for the analysis on the extent to which the farmers comprehend compensation for land expropriation and their acceptance of land expropriation, compensation and other factors, along with the establishment and conduct of new standards of farmers-will-oriented compensation for land expropriation. Meanwhile, it serves as reference to the current compensation policy for land expropriation.With previous full examination of relevant literature and theories, this paper commences the analysis with further interpretation concerning the development of Chinese land expropriation compensation, including its early stage, exploration stage, stagnation phase, establishment phase and reform stage which are illustrated with the problems in current land expropriation compensation system. Second, with the data and statistics from field investigation in 12 villages in 5 cities and 1 zone located in Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province (Xi’an, Baoji, Xianyang, Weinan, Tongchuan and Yangling Agricultural High-tech Industries Demonstration Zone) from July to November in 2009 and from October to December in 2010, the status quo of farmers’understanding in land expropriation compensation is reexamined and the farmers’will about land expropriation and other factors is analyzed with the application of Logistic regression model. Third, factor analysis is applied to the construction of two composite variables, which refer to the status of farmers’ right to information and their acceptance to the land expropriation compensation for further research on farmers compensation will and other factors. Fourth, the farmer’-will-oriented land expropriation compensation standard is worked out with the utilization of will-oriented price law. Finally, five recommendations for the improvement of land expropriation compensation are put forward, which refer to the standardization of land expropriation compensation procedures, the optimization of land expropriation compensation system, the perfection of reemployment of farmers without land, the enhance of rights protection for the farmers without land and the strengthen of supervision mechanism over land expropriation.The findings of the thesis are shown as follows:(1) It was demonstrated in the survey that farmer understand little about land expropriation policy by farmers and the relevant information is by far enough. In the survey of 437 valid samples, 59.73% of the farmers uttered their reluctance over their land expropriation while 40.27% of the farmers agreed with the practice. The factors which influence farmers’will over the land expropriation are worked out by using the SPSS software for Logistic regression Model analysis as follows:1. The lower the compensation of land expropriation, the more reluctant the farmers can accept the land expropriation.2. Family structure: the older the family average age are, the more serious anxiety towards uncertainties they would suffer, which in consequence give rise to their unwillingness to the land expropriation.3. The farms enjoying higher income from non-agricultural business are less dependent on land while more willing to accept the land expropriation.4. The farmers who anticipate the improvement of income, living standard, family wealth, employment and social security brought by the land expropriation are apt to get their land expropriated.(2) The family with more non-farmers members expected higher compensation while the family of higher income class expected lower compensation; The higher standards of compensation are on the part of family with more land to be expropriated while things go opposite on the part of family with more land left. Farmers informed of more information in land expropriation anticipate lower standard of compensation. The farmers who enjoy satisfactory compensation prefer higher compensation standard than those of dissatisfactory compensation. The family with better non-agricultural employment show less preference to non-currency compensation. The older the farmers, the higher expectation of non-currency compensation they possess. Families with higher household annual income after the land acquisition have lower need in non-currency compensation. Farmers enjoying better compensation have lower need in non-currency compensation means.(3) That WAT is higher than WTP corresponded with the international research conclusion. However, the gap between them is relatively slight that WAT is higher than WTP by 24%, so that the latter can serve as value estimator. Among the factors which are influential to the will of acceptance and payment, the dominant ones are the amount of latest compensation farmers get and the distance of land to the urban area, presenting the strong influence of location on the value of the land, which is theoretically evident to the improvement of land acquisition compensation policy.