Empirical Analysis On The Management Sturucture Of The Homestead Allocation Mechanism In The Rural Area

Rural homestead is the livelihood shelter for farmers’ settlement and pursuits as well as the role of protection function in our country for a long time.The characteristics of rural homestead mechanism can be summarized as collective ownership,utilization by farmer,free charge and infinite sustainability,one household with one homestead,transfer restriction.Homestead mechanism had a certain positive and historical role on rural community stability and farmers’ comfortable life and job.With the advancement of urbanization,industrialization,agricultural modernization,rural homestead mechanism can’t meet the increasing demands to rural economic and social development,whose notable points are that normal rural dwellings can’t be guaranteed reasonably during a long stage,and its difficulty has already become increasingly prominent.The problems are mainly that rural area has shortage of construction land and difficulty in land property adjustment,and they reflect homestead acquisition and allocation difficulty.However,due to the two problems,the two phenomena has been resulted in the rural dwellings:■ rural area has merged amount of no-house-family and badly-off-family,having negative impact on rural livelihood;■ owing to difficult building approval and land adjustment,a great number of illegal buildings has been up surging.The paper reckons privatization can’t carry out at present,while abandoning the land-owner-structure reform.On the contrary,the right to land use should be specific defined.The aim of this research paper is to build the theoretical analytical framework of the management structure of the homestead allocation mechanism through the economic perspective of transaction cost.Meanwhile,the paper summarizes and analyses current Zhejiang management structure of the homestead allocation,and takes suggestions on homestead allocation management structure.From current rural homestead management situation in Zhejiang province,the research analyses the characteristics and problems on the homestead resource allocation,and has empirical analysis of three rural homestead allocation management structure."Management structure-behavior style-mechanism performance analysis framework has been adopted to study management structure of Zhejiang homestead allocation mechanism.The core thoughts is that management structure decides different participants’ transaction behavior and cost,and transaction behavior and cost decide resource allocation mechanism performance.The research shows that Zhejiang rural homestead management structure can be summarized as spontaneous transaction between peasant households,government-dominant transaction,and collective-dominant transaction,spontaneous transaction between peasant households’ cost is higher than others.From the perspective of lowering the transaction cost and improving management structure,market and government’s advantage should be given to full play.Homestead should be paid and have a deadline,and gradually build the use right and value formation mechanism for homestead.Meanwhile,the main role of government or collective economic organization is to offer public product service,such as spatial planning,architectural design direction.Infrastructure construction,human settlement improvement,social management,etc.Last but not least,some suggestions are made:homestead allocation should be paid and has a deadline,and realize the resource effect maximization.Homestead allocation management structure should adjust measures to local conditions;and it should implement self-governance with planning first,and play full role to collective economic organization.