Effects of land supervision on cultivated land requisition-compensation balance in China

The purpose of this study is to analyze whether the implement of land supervision is effective in cultivated land requisition-compensation and to assess the size of the effects. Based on province-level panel data from 2003 to 2008, random effects Tobit model was employed. The results show that: 1) land supervision plays a positive role in cultivated land requisition-compensation. The growth of every percentage point in special land supervision coverage will bring about nearly 1.47% growth in cultivated land requisition-compensation. The growth of every percentage point in regular land supervision coverage will bring about nearly 5.59% growth in cultivated land requisition-compensation. 2) The implement of special land supervision promotes cultivated land compensation. Cultivated land quantity respectively increases 19 339.39 hm2 and 3?118.81 hm2 in 2007 and 2008, accounting for 9.88% and 1.36% of the total area of cultivated land compensation. Regular land supervision works effectively as well to cultivated land compensation in the current year. Compensatory cultivated land scale reaches 29 106.36 hm2. It accounts for 12.68% of the total area of cultivated land compensation. 3) Land supervision accelerates the process of cultivated land compensation. The area of cultivated land compensation is 19 339.39 hm2 and 32?225.17 hm2 respectively, accounting for 9.88% and 14.03% of the total area of cultivated land compensation in 2007 and 2008.