British classical economist William Petty considered:"The earth is the mother ofwealth and labor is the father of wealth.",which proves the important role of land andlabor in wealth creation. This principle applies especially for China, a typical economy ofdual sector model. It is particularly important for China to optimally allocate land andlabor resources.As the development of Chinese industrialization and urbanization, the emergence oflarge-scale migration of non-permanent workers forms a large-scale urban marginalizedgroup. Hundreds of millions of agricultural labor moving to non-agricultural industries incities and towns and urban township enterprises has promoted the industrialization andurbanization development in China, which have made historical contribution to Chineseoutstanding dual economic transformation. But there are also many problems ofnon-permanent migrant agricultural labor force in the form of peasant migrant workers.On the one hand, large-scale urban marginalized groups and their traditionalconsumption patterns, not only lead to "city disease" highlights, but also directly restrictthe demand of peasant migrant workers and their families to have the ability to pay. Onthe other hand, peasant migrant workers can be detached from the farm land to settledown in the city. It is difficult to fundamentally change the small-scale agricultureoperation, which increasingly highlighted land resource constraints. Because of themassive outflow of young labor force, it results in some of the rural land abandonment,housing idle rural hollow, which induces more serious "rural disease". Therefore, theimprovement of citizenization of peasant migrants is an effective way to solve manycruxes of the problems of the Chinese economy. The system of Chinese rural landcirculation has a close relationship with the formation of Chinese peasant migrantworkers groups. On the one hand, the existing land circulation system has restricted thepermanent rural-urban migration of the agricultural labor force, which formed a uniquepeasant migrant workers group with Chinese characteristics; On the other hand, labortransfer of non-permanent workers also brings disadvantage to rural land circulation. Tocrack this problem, we need to study Chinese rural land circulation problems from the perspective of the citizenization of peasant migrant workers. At present, there are manyresearch achievements in land circulation and citizenization of peasant migrant workers.But it is rare to see the study to link the two subjects together, especially researchingrural land circulation problem from the perspective of the citizenization of peasantmigrant workers. Therefore, this article conducts the thorough research of rural landcirculation in China from this perspective, which has important theoretical and practicalsignificance of the realization of large-scale land circulation, citizenization of peasantmigrants and promotion of Chinese dual economic transformation.The main contents are as follows:The first part is the theoretical basis. Firstly, the paper systematically combines andobjectively evaluated domestic and foreign scholars and research achievements aboutrural land circulation and the impact of land circulation on the peasant migrant workers.Secondly, analyze the mechanism about how land circulation impacts the citizenizationof peasant migrant workers. Start with analyzing non-permanent migration of Chineseagriculture labor and its social effects to illustrate the key to solve the crux of Chinesemany current challenges is to citizenize peasant migrant workers; Further analyze ofinteraction of the land circulation and peasant migrant workers, focusing on that the landcirculation impacts of citizenization of peasant migrant workers. On this basis, the paperbuilds a cost-benefit model of non-permanent and permanent relocation of peasantmigrant workers, and mathematically analyzes the promoting effect of land circulation onurbanization of rural migrant peasant workers. Logical deduction and mathematicalanalysis conclude that the land circulation can reduce the opportunity cost ofcitizenization of peasant migrant workers. The revenue of contracted land and homesteadland circulation revenue can compensate for the cost of peasant migrant workerssettlement in town, which is conducive to promoting the process of in citizenization ofpeasant migrant workers. This part of the study has laid a theoretical foundation for thefollow up studies.The second part is the main problems of land circulation in China and restrictionfactor analysis. Firstly the paper expounds the evolution of Chinese rural land circulationsystem and the existing main problems. Chinese rural land circulation system hasundergone several stages from a national ban, attempting to legitimate standardization. These changes show the following three characteristics: First, Induced institutionalchange, combined with mandatory institutional change; second, the transition is gradualand needs guiding; third, it has a lag characteristic. The paper summarizes the currentexisting Chinese rural land circulation problems, objectively combining LiaoningProvince questionnaire and literature. The Rural land circulation is overall in a relativelysmall scale, not standardized; relatively short term, different in regions. It damages theinterests of farmers and changes the agricultural usage purpose in the circulation process.Secondly, to analyze the major factors those restrict land circulation. The specifiedanalysis is conducted mainly based on unclear property right of the land, the immaturityof land circulation market, the imperfect of supporting system and unregulatedgovernment behaviors. Last, the paper conducted econometric tests on the landcirculation restricting factors on the perspective of farmer’s family. The paper set uplogistic regression model based on the data of farmers’ questionnaire in LiaoningProvince by using spss19.0software. The analysis verifies the significance of the factor,the willingness of farmland circulation, which is consistent with the hypothesispropositions.The third part is the international experience and enlightenment of the landcirculation. This paper selects several typical developed and developing countries, tointroduce foreign rural land circulation policies, regulations and practices and tosummarize the success practices. We gain enlightenment from the successful experienceof foreign land circulation, and we should amend and improve the relevant laws of theland circulation, clarify land property rights, establish and improve the land circulationmarket, regulate government behavior, protect the interests of farmers, and formlarge-scale business model.The fourth part is policy recommendations. Based on theoretical analysis, inspectionand measurement of international investigation, the paper makes policy suggestions ofpromotion the land circulation and citizenization of peasant migrant workers. First, reviseand improve relevant laws of land circulation; Main contents are: set up specialregulations of land circulation, improve the existing land transfer laws. Secondly,establish and improve the land circulation market focusing on building land circulationservice centers and improving land circulation price formation mechanism. Thirdly, improve all the supporting systems related to the land circulation: to establish and perfectthe rural social security system; to accelerate the reform of household registration systemand; to establish and perfect the rural land financial system. Fourth, transformgovernment functions and standardize government behavior by forming a better systemenvironment of land circulation, enforcing strict supervision and management, fulfillingof obligations and maintaining the dominant position of peasant migrant workers. |