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What role does land consolidation play in the multi-dimensional rural revitalization in China? A research synthesis

Journal

LAND USE POLICY
Volume 120, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106261

Keywords

Rural land consolidation; Rural revitalization; Effects; Synthesis; China

Funding

  1. Natural Resources Science and Technology Project of Jiangsu Province, China [2020001, 2020006]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [41771243]

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With the use of the target-indicator-outcome framework, this study evaluated the effects of land consolidation on rural revitalization in China. The results showed that land consolidation had a positive impact on rural development, especially in terms of Prosperous Life and Industrial Prosperity. However, the effects on Ecological Livability and Rural Civilization & Effective Governance were not statistically significant. The positive effects varied across different regions in China, with higher proportions in eastern and western regions compared to the central region.
With the rural revitalization strategy was proposed in 2017, large-scale land consolidation has been carried out in rural areas of China, which has profoundly impacted rural development and sustainability. To assess the multi-dimensional effects of land consolidation on rural revitalization, an evaluation system was constructed following the proposed target-indicator-outcome framework and subsequently applied to 193 cases documented in 92 peer-reviewed articles for a systematic review and meta-analysis. The results indicate that rural land consoli-dation had played more positive than no/negative roles in facilitating rural revitalization, with cases reporting generally positive outcomes accounting for 74%. Considering four targets of rural revitalization, positive effects were statistically significant in the case of Prosperous Life and Industrial Prosperity, with positive cases ac-counting for 86% and 79%. However, the positive effects in terms of Ecological Livability and Rural Civilization & Effective Governance is statistically non-significant, with positive cases accounting for 65% and 47%. In terms of 12 indicators, an overview of the positive and no/negative effects brought by land consolidation were sum-marized. The cases of the indicators related to rural producting and living were largely positive, however, the indicators related to rural ecology, rural civilization and governance reported higher no/negative outcomes. From the perspective of spatial differentiation, the positive effects were significant in eastern, central and western China, and the proportion of positive cases in eastern China (80%) and western China (77%) were higher than those in central China (67%). The opportunities and threats of rural land consolidation in multi-dimension deserve policy attention in rural revitalization strategy.

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