Study On Farmer’s Welfare Change In The Homestead Exchange Based On Investigation In Feicheng City

In the past decades, China’s fast track in urbanization and industrialization has beensuffering from the lack of land resource. The homestead exchange project was launched insome developed regions in China as an important strategic mission in order to solve theproblem in the land supply in the processes of urbanization and industrialization, as well asto improve farmers’ living standard and environment. However, homestead exchangeproject is in the very beginning stage, relatively less attention has been paid to the researchon the mode of homestead exchange project. Meanwhile, owing to the special land systemin China’s rural area, there is no similar experience to learn from foreign countries.The situation of Feicheng’s homestead is more and more dispersed, poor management,no-planning and so on, the introduction of replacement was to address the homesteadmisuse problems, to some extent, the homestead replacement solves some problems ofsome residents, but generally speaking, the process of replacement is not very successful,there are still some problems. Based on Amartya Sen’s new definition of “welfare”, it isdiscovered that social security, family payments, housing and living environment andpsychology are five key indexes to measure the situation of landless peasants’ welfare. Aquestionnaire was thus designed to give an empirical analysis of the changes of farmers’welfare before and after the residential land displacement in Feicheng city.Based on the investigation of farmer’s welfare changes in the residential landdisplacement in Feicheng city, after the homestead replacement, source of income andincome levels have increased, but expenditure is larger, the non-economic welfare haschanged significantly. The final puts forward ideas and means to improve the city’shomestead replacement process，And finally put forward the Process ideas and means ofimproving the development of the town homestead replacement.