A Study On Behavior Of Local Governments In Land Coversion Process

After reform and opening up, with the decentralization and division eating style, local governments have their own space of actions, capacity, rights and motivation to become relatively independent of the main actors and interests. The relationship between local and central governments is no longer a simple administrative relations, they have become a different power and interest body of the game. Local governments are no longer simply acting in accordance with central governments, but earnestly implementing the central governments' policy, from the perspective of their own understanding and implementing the central governments' policy to achieve the maximization of their self-interest.Along with the local governments have their own independent interests demand, their conduct orientation in land conversion has a deviation from the central governments, central governments would like to control the scale of land conversion in an appropriate context, and local governments hope that the scale of land conversion bigger and better. Due to non-implementation of the central governments' land conversion policy, local governments can get additional revenue, so violate the rules will inevitably become the general behavior of local governments' regulations.In reality, local governments as a major illegal land user also proved this point. According to law enforcement and supervision departments of the Ministry of Land and Resources survey, 80 percent of illegal land use actions have relate to local governments. All of the serious land illegal behaviors, almost involving governments. Compared to illegal enterprises, harm of the illegal behavior of local governments will greater, because they are land managers of the area, they have commitment to the protection of arable land, maintain the land market in order, and other duties, but now they take the lead in breach of the system, the result must be a serious harm to the governments' visualizations, etc.As well as we known that, there have huge population and less cultivated land in our country, 18 million of the quantity of the cultivated land Maximum Supply of Farmland have relate to economic and ecological security, social stability and survival and development of future generations of our country. In recent years, for the reason of strengthen local governments' land management, protection of national sustainable using of land resources in the overall situation, in 2004 and 2006, the state from the fundamental point of view had taken two major initiatives: Land administration system had been adjusted first, following the reform of provincial land management system; second is the establishment of a national land inspectorate system.On the contrary, local governments in the region attend to achieve development and take the lead in making money and their achievements, in land conversion, there are still a lot of loss behaviors: various forms in disguise to avoid the higher level of government planning control and management of approval, highlight the growing problem of illegal land use and direct the illegal approval of land issues have become increasingly prominent, the result of China's cultivated land tenure has been out of control, has affected the smooth running of economic and social stability. To a certain extent, local governments have become an important mainstay of the law violations. Local governments in the land conversion process play as "judge", also play a "player" role, there are a lot of loss, the conflict between farmers and local governments intensified, caused heavy petition cases, increased factors of instability in rural areas. This requires local governments to firmly establish a sense of service, to further strengthen land management, improve the mechanism of non-agricultural land, land comprehensive, coordinate and sustainable social development, access land-use maximization benefits in economical, ecological and social.At first, the article introduced research background, purpose and significance of the topic; the second part focus on basic concepts of land conversion, include China's land conversion status at this stage; the third part is the important part of the article, sections of the focus of the article, analysis of the main participation in China's land conversion, focus on land conversion process in the conduct of governments, analysis of the loss of local governments and the hazards and causes, the fourth part analyzed the foreign governments' action in the process of land conversion, and its reference to China; Chapter five cited actual cases to detailed analysis; Chapter six put forward policy recommendations to the local governments; at last, the paper concluded the main conclusion of the study and the prospects for future research.