Land consolidation and rural spatial restructuring

Currently,the implementation of new type industrialization,new type urbanization and agricultural modernization strategy lacks of a major hand grip and spatial sustain platform,due to long-term existed "dual-track" structure of rural-urban development in China as well as unstable rural development institution and mechanism and backward rural and agricultural infrastructures,which greatly affects the advancement of urban-rural integration development.It is necessary to restructure rural production,living and ecological space by carrying out land consolidation,so as to establish a new platform for building new countryside and realize urban-rural integration development in China.This paper develops the concept and connotation of rural spatial restructuring,i.e.,an optimization and adjustment even utterly changing process of rural production,living and ecological space accompanied by rural socio-economic structure reshaping under the pressure of rapid industrialization and urbanization.The connotations of rural spatial restructuring involve three aspects of assembling industrial development,centralizing farmers' living and intensive resources utilization.Based on the effects analysis of industrialization and urbanization on rural production,living and ecological space,this paper also probes the mechanism which push forward rural spatial restructuring by carrying out land consolidation,an important approach to supplying cultivated land,revitalizing the stock land,optimizing rural-urban land,utilizing land intensively,and increasing land productivity.A conceptualization of the models of rural production,living and ecological environment spatial restructuring is analyzed in combination with agricultural land consolidation,hollowed villages consolidation and industrial and mining land consolidation.Finally,the author argues that a "bottom-up" restructuring strategy accompanied by a few "top-down" elements is helpful for smoothly pushing forward current rural spatial restructuring in China.The optimization and restructuring of rural intensive and high-efficient production space,suitable living space with amenity and ecological space with beautiful mountain and clean water will rely on the innovation of regional engineering technology,policy mechanism and mode of rural land consolidation,and more attentions should be paid to rural space,the foundation base and platform for realizing urban-rural integration development.