Study On The Social Stability Risk Evaluation Of Rural Area Land Expropriation In Xinjiang

As the policy of west development is comprehensively implemented, and the implementation of theassistance program in Xinjiang, Xinjiang has ushering in a new climax of development and construction. Alarge amount of collective land in villages and towns needs to be expropriated to expand cities and increaseconstruction programs. Disputes of rural land produced by land expropriation is uprising and the conflictintensification has made negative effect on social harmony and stability.This paper, by collecting statistics and visiting different places, with focus on the current state of landexpropriation in Xinjiang rural area, pointed the main reasons of uncertainties in land expropriation in ruralarea from three aspects: policy, economy and society. As for policies, there are nonstandard behavior inexpropriation procedures, unclear definition of compensation and distribution clients, unproper practice ofcompensation fund and single settlement mainly with currency. The economic factors are propertyconsciousness, conflict triggered by house price rising and low compensation, rural residents’ real incomelagging behind social economic development and their resistance and hatred to the rich because of heavyfinancial burden. And the social factors contain social environment where Xinjiang minorities inhabit andthat villagers’ mental state is hard to adjust after land expropriation.The empirical study is made based on factors easily raising social instabilities and by using factoranalysis to build an evaluation index system of social stability risks in Xinjiang rural area land expropriation.Setting up the alarm system of social stability risks in Xinjiang rual area land expropriation for regionalalarm analysis; finally, proposing strategies and measures to safeguard landless farmers’ legal right andinterest, to prevent social risks and to maintain social stability.