China - Integrating Land Policy Reforms II : Strengthening Land Rights for Equitable Growth and Social Harmony

This report evaluates the legal framework for rural land rights, the regulations of rural housing sites, the effects of land requisition on farmers who lose land, and some selected issues affecting urban land rights. The focus of this report is how to enhance property rights in a number of different contexts. The report makes a series of specific policy recommendations for rural agricultural land, rural housing land, to protect rights in the context of requisitions, and for urban land rights that include: strengthening farmers' rights over rural agricultural land, strengthening rights over rural housing land, improving requisition procedures and outcomes, and strengthening urban land use rights and administration.