A case studty on the settlement of rural women affected by land requisitioning in China

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 16, Issue 50, 2007, Pages 133-148

  Peimin, Lou ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; RURAL POPULATION; SETTLEMENT PLANNING; TRAINING; URBANIZATION; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33847703653     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: 14699400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670560601026876     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Other findings from the research project are presented in Lou Peimin, 'Thoughts on settlement for villagers affected by land requisition', Renmin ribao, (7 August 2003), p. 19
2. Zuo Xuejin and Lou Peimin, 'Issues on conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural use, distribution of the gains in the conversion, and policy suggestions', Mao Zedong Deng Xiaoping lilun yanjiu no. 1, (2004)
3. Lou Peimin, 'Conflict and solution of China's current institution of land requisition and affected villagers' settlement', Zhongguo chengshihua no. 1, (2004).
4. Article 10, Zhonghua renmin gongheguo xianfa, 1998, 2004.
5. Article 2, ch. 1, Zhonghua renmin gongheguo tudi guanlifa, 1998, 2004. 'Zhonghua renmin gongheguo tudi guanlifa', adopted in 1986, amended in 1988, revised in 1998, and amended for the second time in 2004.
6. Article 20, Zhonghua renmin gongheguo xianfa xiuzheng an, 2004. Expropriation changes the ownership, while requisition changes only the right to use land. The Article is a rough attempt to make clear different property relations generated by expropriation and requisition.
7. Article 2, ch. 1, Zhonghua renmin gongheguo tudi guanlifa, 1998, 2004.
8. Article 43, Zhonghua renmin gongheguo tudi guanlifa, 1998, 2004.
9. Article 63, Zhonghua renmin gongheguo tudi guanlifa, 1998, 2004.
10. The exceptions include: Rural collectives using their own land for the construction of township and village enterprises, villagers' housing, or infrastructure or facilities of public interest, with the approval of government authority (see Article 43 of the Zhonghua renmin gongheguo tudi guanlifa, 1998, 2004).
11. One mu is about 667 square meters.
12. Article 31, Zhonghua renmin gongheguo tudi guanlifa, 1986.
13. A development zone is a planning form designed to concentrate resources. In the initial stage of China's reform and opening up, capital, technologies and other resources were very limited. Under such circumstances, the governments concentrated limited resources into the development zones so that the productivity of resources could be enhanced. Prior to 2003, there were more than 6,000 development zones of different types across China. According to law, however, development zones could only be established through the approval of the State Council or the provincial-level governments. From August 2003 to June 2004, 70% of all development zones were abolished, as most of them had been established by sub-provincial levels of government.
14. The executive agency of the land requisition is the development zone that transfers or sells the land according to the governments' agreement. Therefore, it is very complicated to distribute transference and sale revenues, which in any event are unrelated to the amount of compensation given out to the villagers. Both governments and the development zone as the land requisitioning departments have the responsibility to help the villagers to find employment.
15. In China, a pension is paid to the retirees on a monthly basis. Because women retire earlier and they tend to live longer than men, they receive a larger pension over their life time than men.