What is the nature of rural land

The land use nature of rural land is divided into state-owned land and collective land, and farmers only have the right of use, not ownership.

Agricultural land is land utilized directly or indirectly for agricultural production. Also known as agricultural land. Including arable land, garden land, forest land, pasture land, raising and catching water surface, farmland water conservancy facilities land, as well as field roads and all other land occupied by agricultural production buildings.

In 1985, the world's agricultural land accounted for about 64.7% of the world's total land area (excluding Antarctica); with the social development and urbanization process continues to advance, this proportion is becoming smaller at an alarming rate. The rationality criteria for agricultural land use are: the requirement to achieve the unity of environmental, social, economic and ecological benefits in order to maintain a virtuous cycle and perpetual utilization.

Land ownership is the right of a landowner to freely use and dispose of his land under the protection of national laws and within the limits prescribed by law." Land ownership contains three meanings: one, the landowner is free to use and dispose of all his land and has the right to receive income; two, it is recognized and protected by the law; and three, the right is exercised within the scope of the law, i.e., the right is subject to the limitations of the law.

The Constitution of the People's Republic of China and the Land Management Law stipulate that the land ownership system in China is the socialist land public ownership system, including two forms of socialist ownership by the whole people and socialist collective ownership by the working masses. According to the relevant information, in China's existing arable land area, belonging to the state ownership of 6%, belonging to the collective ownership of 94%; in the existing forest area, more than 70% belongs to the state ownership, more than 20% belongs to the collective ownership.

Article 2 of the Land Management Law states, "The Chinese people*** and the State shall implement the socialist public ownership of land, namely, universal ownership and collective ownership by the working masses." Article 8 states: "The land in the countryside and the suburbs of cities, except for that which is owned by the State as prescribed by law, is collectively owned; the homesteads and the land and mountains reserved for the peasants are collectively owned by the peasants." Article 9 states: "Natural resources such as mineral deposits, water flows, forests, mountains, grasslands, wasteland, mudflats, etc., all belong to the state, that is, the whole people; except for forests and mountains, grasslands, wasteland, mudflats, which are collectively owned by the law."

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