Review and prospect of land consolidation in China

In this paper, the achievements of land consolidation undertaking in China during the Tenth Five-Year period were introduced. And the statusquo of land consolidation projects of national investment were analyzed and evaluated. In the past five years, the central policies were firmly fulfilled, and land consolidation projects were stressed in these areas such as major grain-produced areas, the development of the western regions, northeast old industrial regions, central regions and poor areas. That energetically supported developmentin those areas and ensured national food security. In the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, land consolidation of China will continue to pay particular attention to build its legal system and mechanisms, vigorously perform the consolidation of prime farmland and farmland resources protection, actively develop the consolidation of saving land and strengthen land reclamation and rural constructive land consolidation. Therefore, that will energetically promote rural development. At last, some suggestions emphasizing in the Eleventh Five-Year period such as village consolidation, property right issues, cultivated land quality and ecological construction are discussed. It is very helpful for land consolidation undertaking to playa more vigorously supporting role in building the new countrysides with Chinesecharacteristics, building saving society and food security.