Case Studies:Experiment On Readjustment Of Farmers’ Resident Land-use In Shanghai Suburb In The Perspective Of Public Policy

After 30 years of innovation and opening to the out world,China is now in thephase of fast urbanization development.Farm land has been occupied rapidly forconstructing urban area and the amount of per-capital farm land is so little that it isfacing the critical point of food security.Urbanization must stop using farm land andlook for solution from the existing construction land.During the farm landtransformed into construction land,the farmers have not got reasonable compensation,many of them even lost their homes.At the same time,farmers’ resident land is one ofthe most wasteful types of land-use because it can be used without payment ortime-limit.Also,the ambiguity of the property right character of farmers’ residentland hinders farmers from capitalizing the land and merging into urban life.All theproblems above could be summed up as land-use adjustment and paid propertytransfer.In Shanghai suburb,the experiment on readjustment of farmers’ resident land-use tried to provide a series of solutions in one package.After four years,the experiment is now running to the last phase and shows some periodical achievements such as centralizing rural residence,improving resident environment,intensifying the use of land resources and promoting the industrialization of agriculture.The Experiment is a policy process and it has the typical characteristics of public policy.Analyzing it in the theory frame of public policy helps understanding the whole policy process,comparing different roles and cases,evaluating policy effects,and providing policy advices.In conclusion,policy innovation is the core of the experiment,which is embodied by target orientation,value orientation,humane service and market-directed operation.The innovations of the dissertation rely on: 1.studying the Experiment as a system from the perspective of public policy;2.providing a series of cases for Chinese public policy study.