Regional difference for newly increased cultivated land area through land consolidation in China

The influencing factors and implementation effect analysis are main points for study of land consolidation, which have important theoretical and practical value to enrich relevant land consolidation evaluation technology system, improve the overall efficiency of land consolidation promote, and land consolidation scientific decision-making. Land consolidation played an important role in achieving and maintaining the dynamic balance between demand and supply of the arable land in China. From this perspective, this article took the increased rate of arable land through land consolidation as an important indicator, and conducted the effect evaluation of the land consolidation in China on national, provincial (regional and municipal), and municipal scales. Results showed that land consolidation projects were still the main type of land reclamation at national level in China, and while the land development projects were the main type below the provincial level; the increased rate of arable land from land development projects showed high percentage on the whole country, and there were few differences on national, province and municipal scale; the increased rate of arable land from land consolidation and reclamation reflected larger differences on the nation, province, and municipal scale, and the differences could be reflected on municipal scale even more.