Analysis of rural residential land consolidation based on willingness classification

Abstract: As an effective measure, rural residential land consolidation can not only intensify the rural residential land use, but also relieve the contradiction of urban and rural land use. We used the geological data and economic social materials gotten by GIS spatial techniques, global observation and interviews, and made empirical researches in Wuxiang County, Shanxi Province. Firstly, divide the type of rural residential land consolidation. As the diversity in terrain, economy and population structure, the rural settlements were different. This study chose 8 factors in 3 aspects, and used them to classify the settlements into 4 types, which were geological disaster type, urban development type, natural recession type and internal development type. It was very meaningful to divide villages of the study area into respective rural residential land consolidation types, because it not only helped us find out the current situation of the overall rural residential land utilization, but also coordinated the consolidation potential of individual village. So the division of rural residential land consolidation types was the basis for other researches of rural residential land consolidation. Then, establish the game theory model about consolidation willingness between local government and village collective, and use it to analyze the feasibility of different rural residential land consolidation types. As the administrator of the region, the government wanted to improve the living condition of peasants and raise the level of economic development through rural residential land consolidation. Also, villagers were the immediate stakeholders of rural settlement, so they had rights to determine whether the land is consolidated or not. With the property of public welfare, the local government had the leading role in rural residential land consolidation, so this game model was the dynamic game of complete information, which meant the local government took action first. The strategies of peasants were affected by the actions of the government. If the local government would like to consolidate the rural settlement, it would provide compensation for the villagers, and the villagers could spend less. If the local government would not like to do it, the peasants would suffer from more stress which came from funds. Based on this, we deployed the multi-factor assessment method to evaluate the willingness of the 2 players. We considered gains and cost when the government took action, containing 5 indices which were consolidation potential, population, rural housing land area per capita, terrain niche and distance between settlements and main streets. We chose 6 indices on the aspects of population structure, living condition, development prospect to analyze the willingness of villagers. We chose 24 settlements to evaluate, and found that the settlements of Payoff I could be consolidated, the government had better provide policies beneficial to settlement consolidation for payoff II, the settlements of Payoff III could be improved by the villagers, and the settlements of Payoff IV needn't be consolidated in the near future. The study can provide an effective reference for rural residential land consolidation, and the accuracy of its result is also associated with the work plan of rural residential land consolidation.