Illegal Conversion Of Agricultural Land In China To Study

The non-agricultural conversion of the farmland is an unavoidable trend in the economic development. Both the progress of urbanization and the construction of a new rural area engender urgent requirements for the farmland. However, the limitation of our law and the imperfection of the farmland system make some disharmonious sounds in the process of non-agricultural conversion of the farmland. There appear various problems of illegal non-agricultural conversion of the farmland. As a kind of irreplaceable natural resource, farmland does not only have the economic value of production, but the social value of food security and environmental security. Whether a country has enough farmland resource directly affects its sustainable development. In China, farmland determines the life of the peasants. It works not only as the survival security of the peasants, but also as the social security of the later life of the peasants. Therefore, the non-agricultural conversion of the farmland has an impact on the right of the peasants, and furthermore affects the stability of the whole society.Protecting the farmland to keep the non-agricultural conversion with the legal limits is the question the needs quick solution of our government. However, due to some reasons, such as the pursuit of economic benefits, the imperfection of relative laws, and the limitation of the farmland system, the illegal non-agricultural conversion of farmland is very common. This thesis aims to do a research on the current condition and significance of the illegal non-agricultural conversion, the reasons of its existence and the measures that can be taken to put an end to the non-agricultural conversion The research and analysis of these questions can provide some beneficial references to protect the farmland and accelerate the legal non-agricultural conversion of the farmland.Firstly, this thesis gives a brief introduction to the background of non-agricultural conversion of the farmland, the significance of the research and the innovative points of the thesis.Next, the thesis mainly illustrates the relative theories. It is further divided into two sections. The first section briefly introduces the concept of non-agricultural conversion that is accepted by most people nowadays. The second section analyzes the relative meanings of legal non-agricultural conversion of the farmland and illegal non-agricultural conversion of the farmland.Then the thesis sheds light on the current condition of illegal non-agricultural conversion of the farmland in our country. It points out the specific representations of the illegal non-agricultural conversion of the farmland. Four aspects, including the destruction of the farmland, the problem of food security, the damage of peasant's right and the breed of the corruption are manifested to introduce the disadvantageous significances that are caused by illegal non-agricultural conversion of the farmland.The fourth part is of the most importance. On the basis of the current condition of non-agricultural conversion of the farmland and its unfavorable significances, this thesis analyzes the motivation of the existence of illegal non-agricultural conversion of the farmland, the legal reasons, the subjective behaviour and the farmland system. These analysis show a fact that it is the pursuit of economic benefits and the enhancement of the officials' achievements in their posts, the imperfection of the farmland management law, the peasants' indifferent consciousness of protecting their own rights, the ambiguity of the property right in the rural farmland system and the binary structure of farmland market that lead to the existence of the non-agricultural conversion of the farmland in our country.The fifth part researches on the strategies to solve the problems. The thesis illustrates some measures, such as weakening the motivation of non-agricultural conversion of the farmland, consummating the law of the management of the farmland, enhancing peasants' self-conciousness of protecting their rights, making a clear distinction of the farmland property right system and consummating the farmland market, to keep non-agricultural conversion of the farmland with the legal limits. Only in this way can we effectively protect our farmland resources and promote the society to maintain a sustainable and scientific development.