China's growing economy has accelerated urbanization, which has reached 65 percent as of 20222%, and the permanent urban population exceeded 920.71 million. 
More and more residents are flocking to the city to settle down and work, contributing to the city's economic development, and at the same time they are getting higher incomes. In 2022, the number of permanent residents in rural areas decreased by 7.31 million, and the rural population continued to move to cities, with the result that more and more villages are about to become "hollow villages". In many rural areas, only the elderly and a few left-behind children are left-behind at a glance, and there are no young people in sight. 
However, such hollow villages will bring higher administrative costs and waste of resources, so in recent years, various localities have vigorously promoted the reform measures of "merging villages and towns". Including Shandong, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan and other provinces, in the past two years have formulated a plan to merge villages and towns, taking Liaoning Tieling Changtu as an example, the first to launch a one-square-meter rural house for a one-square-meter building in the town, and the unlicensed formula will also be compensated 2,000 yuan per square meter. 
In the face of the re-entry of merging villages and towns, farmers should also take the initiative to pay attention to their own interests, determine what compensation they can receive, and what changes will occur in their lives in the future. In the past, many localities have also merged villages and towns, but due to the problem of land attributes, the unit price of compensation for homestead land is often lower than that of relocated houses, which means that if farmers move back, they will have to pay a large amount of money, which will increase the economic burden of many farmers. The difference in this round of new villages and towns is that more of them are replaced by rural houses for buildings, and farmers no longer need to pay extra money, plus financial compensation for yards, appurtenances and houses, farmers will also get a lot of extra money to embrace the new life in a more relaxed way. 
After the merger of villages and towns, the management method will also usher in changes, and the villagers' self-government will be changed to be managed by the community, and the plumbing fee and garbage disposal fee will be charged by the community. However, it is important to formulate policies according to local conditions and respect the wishes of farmers whether the merger of villages and towns can be completed in an orderly manner. Some inland provinces have already begun to merge villages and towns, and the plans formulated by different provinces will also change according to local conditions. 
In the first batch of reforms, there were 4 "6-in-1" large villages, and with the rest of the country following suit, it is expected that more "6-in-1" large villages will emerge in the future, but the current mainstream reform model is still dominated by "3-4-in-1". Many rural people used to yearn for urban life, not only with more complete and convenient living facilities, but also with convenient transportation, but they did not take into account that urban life and rural life are completely different. Many rural people are accustomed to living in bungalows, but now they are not used to changing to buildings, so they simply rent out their houses, find a rural rental nearby, and return to rural life. There are also many things that farmers should pay attention to when merging villages and towns. 
First of all, the most important point is that the relocation house obtained after the merger of the village and town will generally have a 5-10 year lock-up period, during which the transfer procedures cannot be carried out, unless you are willing to make up the land transfer fee alone. Another point is that the state's plan for the merger of villages and towns must be approved by the relevant departments at the provincial level, and no one or unit is qualified to implement it without approval, so it is necessary to determine whether the construction unit has the relevant qualifications. Kunpeng Project