How new rural elites facilitate community-based homestead system reform in rural China: A perspective of village transformation

IF 6.5 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Weiping Liu , Lin Yin , Yan Zeng
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Abstract

In line with China's rural transformation, the homestead system reform (HSR) pilots have been launched to rectify adverse land-related issues by formalising and capitalising land property rights. In contrast with a government-led model prevalent among most national HSR pilots, a community-based approach has been experimented with and proven efficient in Yujiang County, southern China. It highlights a pivotal role of the endogenous and public-spirited activists who are locally called ‘new rural elites’ (NREs). From the perspective of village transformation processes, this paper establishes a theoretical framework and employs a case study in Yujiang to interpret the underlying rationale for NREs' involvement in HSR. The findings indicate that HSR, aiming at multi-level space reshaping and ‘three rights separation’ reform, is in alignment with the triple processes of village transformation (i.e., systemic, communal, and living). The NREs represent a cultural force for facilitating village transformation, which is underpinned by the capacity, channel and carrier endowed by urban-rural linkages, interpersonal value transmission and community social solidarity, respectively. The benevolent dominance of the NREs is jointly shaped by governmental empowerment and accountability, egalitarian property rights design and strong social solidarity. To expand NREs' benevolent roles, this study recommends aligning community empowerment with the improvements of community-based action capacity.

新农村精英如何推动中国农村以社区为基础的宅基地制度改革?乡村转型的视角
为配合中国的农村转型,中国启动了宅基地制度改革(HSR)试点,通过将土地产权正规化和资本化来纠正与土地相关的不利问题。与大多数国家宅基地制度改革试点普遍采用的政府主导模式不同,中国南方余江县尝试了一种以社区为基础的方法,并被证明行之有效。它凸显了当地被称为 "新农村精英"(NREs)的内生的、热心公益的积极分子的关键作用。本文从村庄转型过程的视角出发,建立了一个理论框架,并通过对余江县的案例研究,解释了新农村精英参与高铁建设的根本原因。研究结果表明,以多层次空间重塑和 "三权分置 "改革为目标的高铁与村庄转型的三重过程(即制度、社区和生活)是一致的。新农村改革是促进村庄转型的一种文化力量,其基础分别是城乡联系、人际价值传递和社区社会团结所赋予的能力、渠道和载体。政府赋权与问责、平等主义的产权设计和强大的社会团结共同塑造了新农村建设的仁爱主导地位。为扩大新生态系 统的仁慈作用,本研究建议将社区赋权与提高社区行动能力结合起来。
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CiteScore
10.50
自引率
10.30%
发文量
151
审稿时长
38 days
期刊介绍: Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world. However, increasingly the interrelationships and linkages between cities and towns in the developing and developed worlds are becoming apparent and solutions to the problems that result are urgently required. The economic, social, technological and political systems of the world are intertwined and changes in one region almost always affect other regions.
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