New China's Rural Land Policies: Evolutions And Inspirations

China is a country with long history, large agriculture and a population mainly composed of farmers. As rural issues are the core of China's economy, how to solve them is very important for China. To solve rural issues, problems caused by rural land must be settled properly. The essay is willing to card and sort out the rural land policies that carried out during various periods after the founding of the New China from the historical perspective and use the Marxist stand, viewpoint and method, which will lead to an analysis on the historical revelations about the diversifications and influences of rural land policies. By doing this, positive reference value for our country to reform and improve rural land policies could be provided.The essay is divided into five parts:Part One provides theoretical support for the variations of land policies by clarifing the general theory of land policy and explaining the contents, features, and functions of it. In the next two parts, the essay mainly introduces changes of rural land policies before reform and opening up, inner logical connections among these land policies, and their effects in rural life. The fourth part expounds the formation, development, performance of rural land policies and the problems caused by them to the rural society under the household contract system, all those have an intensive realistic aim. To make a conclusion, Part Five generally puts forward the inspirations that brought by the variations of rural land policies, and offers several suggestions for introducing new rural land policies in future as well.