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The policy of land transfer has greatly influenced the macro economy of China with the commencement of another innovation of land use system. Therefore, it is urgent to put forward some rational and feasible suggestions for local government to manage the market of land transfer. Moreover, it is important in the field of study on agricultural land use change to analyze the spatial differentiation and structural specification of land transfer, which are caused by rural households’ behavior. This paper selected 11 factors covering four aspects of rural households’ family structure, family location, family income structure and the natural quality of land resources, all of which influence the behavior differentiation of rural households, to establish the index model indicating spatial differentiation of land transfer. Results show that the spatial differentiation of land transfer can be divided into four degrees and three categories through analyzing rural households’ questionnaires from Shanghai, Nanjing and Taizhou in the Changjiang (Yangtze) River Delta. Since up to 80% of rural households belong to middle degrees, it can be concluded that the rural land market develops evenly in the study areas. And it is also indicated that the natural quality of land resources and the maximum income of rural land are most important factors influencing the spatial differentiation of land transaction. Considering different factors, the countermeasures can be carried out to enhance the spatial differentiation of land transfer so as to promote economic development and social security of rural China. All in all, both microfactors and macro-factors influencing rural households’ behavior of rural land transfer should be taken into account in order to make spatial differentiation and structural specification of rural land transfer notable.
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Foundation item: Under the auspices of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 70373029)
Biography: DU Wen-xing (1975—), female, a native of Urumqi of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Ph.D. candidate, specialized in land resources management. E-mail: dwx1011@163.com
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Du, Wx., Huang, Xj., Zhai, Wx. et al. Spatial differentiation of land transfer. Chin. Geograph.Sc. 16, 24–31 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-006-0019-0
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