Recently, the problem of land vacated by rural improvement in China has attracted much attention. According to the release of the Policy Guidelines for Land Use for Rural Revitalization (2023), all localities are actively cooperating with the implementation of relevant measures to rectify illegal land use. The remediation is mainly aimed at scattered, inefficient and unused land, and the consolidation of agricultural land, collective construction land and rural ecological protection land is the main content. Each of them will be described in detail below.
The consolidation of agricultural land is mainly to consolidate the scattered, inefficient, and unused land in rural areas, so as to improve the peasants' cultivation conditions and production level. Among them, scattered farmland will be organized in a centralized and contiguous manner to achieve large-scale planting and intensive agricultureInefficient agricultural land will be transferred and sorted out, and farmers and entities will be encouraged to make use of inefficient cultivated land to improve the output and quality of agricultural productsThe unused land will be expanded by means of land leveling and soil improvement to meet China's grain production needs. In addition, the cultivated land cleared is mainly used for the production of agricultural products and fodder, and the permanent basic farmland and high-standard farmland are mainly used for the cultivation of food crops.
The consolidation of collective construction land is mainly aimed at rural idle homesteads, abandoned factories and mines, and other inefficient idle construction land. For idle homesteads, the abandoned homesteads in the hands of farmers are mainly vacated and the farmers are guided to withdraw from the homesteads with compensation, so as to reduce the waste of land resources. For the abandoned land of factories and mines, it will be owned by the village collective, and it will be combined with industrial development through revitalization and utilization. The sorted out construction land will be mainly used for the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas, new industries and new forms of business in rural areas, and innovation and entrepreneurship in returning to the countryside, so as to promote the development of the rural economy and the integration of villagers.
With the increasing attention to ecological protection and the prominence of ecological and environmental problems in China, the consolidation of rural ecological land has become an important link. All localities will take measures to sort out unused land and use it for ecological protection and restoration. These lands will be used for the protection and restoration of national ecological safety barriers, grassland protection and restoration, and wetland protection and restoration, so as to improve ecological and environmental problems such as soil erosion, desertification, and rocky desertification.
In the process of rural consolidation and vacated land, policy changes play an important role in the resettlement of peasants. When sorting out collective construction land, farmers need to pay attention to policy changes and apply for homestead land to build houses according to policy requirements. Especially in areas where land resources are scarce, peasants should keep abreast of policy changes so that they can obtain better resettlement conditions.
To sum up, rural remediation and vacated land is an important problem facing China at present. In order to promote the rural revitalization strategy and realize the sustainable development of the rural economy, it is an inevitable choice to sort out agricultural land, collective construction land and rural ecological land. By remediating and vacating the land, we can not only improve the output and quality of agricultural products, but also promote the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas, and at the same time, we can better protect and restore the ecological environment. **We will continue to increase policy support to provide better resettlement conditions for farmers. It is believed that with the joint efforts of the whole society, the work of rural consolidation and land reclamation can achieve remarkable results and inject new vitality into China's rural revitalization.