Analysis and demonstration of investment implementation model and paths for China's cultivated land consolidation

Cultivated land consolidation (CLC) is essential for ensuring rural development and for optimizing national territory arrangement in China. The investment and implementation for CLC have been basically led by governments in China. And the introduction of social organization into CLC investment implementation is a significant experiment in CLC investment implementation models under new conditions of China, it is also an important supplement to traditional land consolidation models and is conducive to innovating land consolidation investment model and improving capital efficiency. Taking Suixi County in Guangdong province as a study area, this paper explores the investment implementation models and paths for China's CLC projects. An evaluation index system is established from three perspectives of cultivated land quality, consolidation potential and investment implementation condition based on the analysis of the executors and influencing factors of CLC investment implementation. Then, China's CLC investment implementation models are divided into three types, named new-type agricultural operation organization leading model, government leading model and farmer leading model, and a systematic analysis of implementation paths for varied models is conducted. Results show that it can instruct regional CLC investment implementation and enhance implementation efficiency of cultivated land investment. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.