Rural Land System Reform Becomes a Focus of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang's Proposals

Xiu Fujin, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, revealed on February 28 that at this year's National People's Congress and National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference sessions, the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang submitted a total of 36 proposals, 4 of which directly address legal construction issues in rural land system reform.

In the "Proposal on Improving Relevant Laws in the Confirmation of Rural Land Contractual Management Rights in China," the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang proposed that the confirmation of rural land contractual management rights faces problems including legal gaps, inconsistencies between laws, insufficient legal effect, and unreasonable content; it is necessary to accelerate the formulation, amendment, and improvement of laws and regulations related to rural land contracting, and to clarify relevant provisions on the registration of rural land contractual management rights, mortgage guarantees, and the definition of rural collective economic organizations and membership qualifications.

Regarding the issue of land expropriation that draws public attention, the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang offered recommendations in the "Proposal on Standardizing Land Expropriation Procedures and Safeguarding the Rights and Interests of Farmers Whose Land Is Expropriated": implement fully transparent land expropriation procedures, establish a whole-process public announcement system for land expropriation, a whole-process participation mechanism for farmers whose land is expropriated, and a participatory compensation and resettlement supervision system; narrow the scope of land expropriation and accelerate the construction of a unified urban-rural land market; reform the current land expropriation compensation scheme and gradually shift toward "compensation determined by the market"; establish a land expropriation pre-deposit system; and implement differentiated and diversified resettlement methods.

In the "Proposal on Amending and Improving the

In addition, in the "Proposal on Giving Play to the Leading and Safeguarding Role of the Rule of Law and Advancing Reform of the System for Market Entry of Rural Collective Operating Construction Land," the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang proposed: to reform the system for market entry of collective operating construction land, legal authorization must first be obtained to ensure that the reform has a legal basis; the reform pilot must operate in a closed manner, with controllable risks and in a steady and orderly way; in reforming the system for market entry of rural collective operating construction land, it is necessary to uphold the decisive role of the market in allocating land resources and better play the role of the government, and to do a good job in the top-level design of the reform plan.