| Land is not only the important resource and material basis for people's survival and development, but also an essential valuable asset to the development of human society. On agricultural production, land resource is the most important means of production and object of labor; on industrial production and urban construction, land resource is the irreplaceable base and spatial space. Objective condition of population and land resource in China results in the fundamental realities of little land for more population and sharp human-land conflict. Therefore, "extremely cherishing, rationally using every inch of land, and ensuring the protection of arable land" becomes the basic state policy in China. In recent years, illegal land cases are keeping up high levels, and almost all serious illegal land cases involves local government. The local government-led large-scale illegal land utilization which has caused a serious waste of land resource, especially of arable land, exacerbates the extremely sharp human-land conflict. So analyzing the characteristics and deep-seated reasons of illegal land administration of local government, exploring countermeasure to restraint illegal land administration of local government, are very significant for regulating local government behaviors, protecting arable land, and for realizing economical, intensive and sustainable land use.This paper is divided into six chapters to undertake a study on illegal land administration of local government, in which the chapter 1 and chapter 6 are the introduction part and the conclusion part respectively, the chapter 2 to the chapter 5 is the main body of the paper. The contents of this paper are showed as follows: In chapter 1, the researching value, purpose, contents, methods are put forward, as well as research status at home and abroad. In chapter 2, theories which relate to illegal land administration of local government are introduced, and the concept of illegal land administration of local government and its main components are raised after the reference to predecessors'definition of local government and illegal land activities. In chapter 3, through collecting a large number of illegal land use cases and relevant data, an analysis on the present situation of illegal land use and typical cases involving local government are carried out, four typical characteristics and manifestation of illegal land administration of the local government are summed up, and the serious consequences of this kind of conduct are analyzed through three aspects—national food security, social security of land-lost peasants,and the order of the land market. In chapter 4, the reasons of illegal land administration of local government are anatomized. The general causes and the deep-seated reasons in legal and institutional aspects are analyzed. In chapter 5, based on the reason analysis of illegal land administration of local government in chapter 4, measures to curb local government illegal land administration are raised through four aspects: establishing a scientific development view, improving legislation, reforming system and strengthening supervision mechanisms. The chapter 6 is the part of conclusion and outlook, main conclusion and deficiency of the paper are summarized. |