Study On Land Ownership Transfer In Rural Area Of Lhasa

At present, the transfer of the right to use rural land in China has become an increasingly hot and central issue in political and academic fields, and an important research topic in development economics and land economics as well. The CPC Central Committee and State Council have always attached great importance to the position of agriculture as the foundation of economy, highlighted the construction of a new socialist countryside and the security and development of people's livelihood and welfare, and issued a series of documents successively to support agricultural development, rural construction and farmers'income increase, including "Advice on further reform and innovation to advance the agricultural modernization". Fanners are encouraged, aided and guided to take part in the transfer of contracted management rights spontaneously and form a new intensified, specialized, organized and socialized agricultural management system. To realize agricultural moderate scale management through the free transfer of land facilitates the optimization of rural land allocation, food security, new urbanization and agricultural modernization. With the fast shift of surplus rural labor force and the acceleration of new urbanization and industrialization, the land system featuring household contract responsibility system has attracted attention and doubts. This thesis studies relevant issues about the transfer of the right to use rural land and aims to provide advice on the transfer of the right to use rural land in Lhasa and even the whole Tibet Autonomous Region.The Tibet Autonomous Region, located on the southwest border of China, is not only a frontier area inhabited by ethnic minorities, mainly Tibetans, but also a special underdeveloped and concentrated poverty-stricken area. Since the peaceful liberation of Tibet, the Party and the Government have always paid attention to the production and living conditions of the Tibetan people and the social development there. From the temporarily no-land-reform policy shortly after the peaceful liberation, the emancipation of a million serfs, commune joint management, to the household contract responsibility, each period was full of the love and care of the Party and Central Government, and great changes in the living and production conditions of the former serfs; land reform in each period was fruitful, and the farmers and herdsmen, with people across the country, are strongly looking forward to the full realization of an all-round well-off society. However, due to many factors such as social underdevelopment, harsh environment, backward thoughts and reactionary forces, the deepening of rural land reform has met some obstacles. How to remove those obstacles for the effective mitigation and gradual elimination of common problems in the agricultural and pastoral areas, such as low additional value of land, inadequate shift of labor force and insufficient scale management and for the further urbanization is a challenging topic for the leaping development of Tibet. In a sense, deepening the land reform in Tibet is directly related to the Party's governing capacity and level in Tibet, stability of Tibet, border consolidation and national security; it is a great measure to carry out the key strategic thought of General Secretary Xi Jinping, "consolidating the border to strengthen the country and stabilizing Tibet first to consolidate the border", and the guiding principle of Chairman Yu Zhengsheng, "governing Tibet by law, building Tibet for a long time, bringing people together and consolidating the basis"; it is also a measure for the sustained, long-term and overall stability in Tibet. Research on the transfer of Tibet's land is politically and economically significant.With the rapid economic and social development and the in-depth system and mechanism reform in Lhasa, transfer of rural land use right there has started and been developing fast. The transfer in some counties is obviously being increased, accelerated, diversified and innovated. With reference to the history of the systematic reform of rural land transfer, and the experience of modern agricultural development and land transfer of developed countries, developing countries, developed coastal areas in China and some counties in the Region, this thesis gives an in-depth analysis of the current transfer conditions and constraints of Lhasa rural land management rights, and the external conditions and institutional requirements for the free transfer of rural land management rights. It introduces the formats and features of the current transfer of rural land and then puts forward the transfer's preconditions, institutional security and policy advice.This thesis argues that farmers' vague awareness of land property rights, inadequate migration of labor force in agricultural and pastoral areas, lack of measures to go with agricultural development, and unfavorable external environment and conditions, have restrained the transfer of rural land use right. At the early stage of the transfer in backward areas, governments should fully guide it, strengthen infrastructure and security system, and make state-owned enterprises' radiation role well played; then, at a certain stage, self-regulating of the market mechanism should be brought into full play, and with the public service function of the governments, establish and perfect a market of the transfer of land-use right.