| The most important portrait of Chinese rural areas is large in population and rare in farmland, land reserve resources are very limited. with ceaselessly development of the rural area, the continuing population growth and shrinking arable lands, people-farmland contradiction becomes increasingly conspicuous. Chinese people pay more and more attention to how to keep the farmland redline and alleviate the people-farmland contradiction. Rural residential land consolidation as an important means of sustainable land use, its theory and practice have made considerable progress in recent years, but with demand for the practice of rural residential land consolidation, the theory has been significantly weak, and needs to enrich and improve.In this study, we learn the advanced theories, research methods and actual survey from home and abroad, then collect a variety of information. We conduct in-depth research on situation, driving force, consolidation potential, evaluate classification, consolidation model, policy advice of rural residential land consolidation in Gansu province from both theoretical and empirical research.Full-text is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter discuss the background and significance of rural residential land consolidation in Gansu province; We confirm the necessity of develop rural residential land consolidation in Gansu province, review rural residential land consolidation research from home and abroad, clarify the innovations in this study. The second chapter firstly define the land consolidation, rural residential and other concepts, and then introduce sustainable development theory, property right theory, land intensive use theory, urban-rural integrate theory, land location theory, ecological and economic theory, and these theories were considered as theory basis of the conduct of rural residential land consolidation. The third Chapter first analysis the present situation of rural residential land consolidation in Gansu province, put forward the problems of it, and then discuss the reasons and the difficulties of it. Chapter IV utilizing gray relational analysis method, discuss the driving force of rural residential land consolidation in Gansu province from three aspects including economic development, social and ecological environment. Chapter V estimate the potential of rural residential land consolidation, and classify rural residential land consolidation potential of fourteen cities and states in Gansu province by using multi-index evaluation method, and divide Gansu province into four zones. Chapter VI divide Gansu province into six major areas combining with the potential evaluation results, put forward adaptive consolidation pattern for each area, and analysis details from the operating model, organization and leadership model, fund raising model. Chapter VII especially advance policy recommendations of the problems easily appear in rural residential land consolidation work. The final chapter summarize the main conclusions of this paper and the problems need to further improve. |