Calls made for further land-use reforms

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    Perpetual usage rights are essential

    The Chinese government should give farmers perpetual rights to their land and end land re-adjustments in order to jump-start the rural economy, says an international non-profit organisation of lawyers.

    Although the land-rights situation has improved over the past 10 years, a survey jointly carried out by the Rural Development Institute (RDI), Renmin University and Michigan State University has found that over 40% of rural households still lack any legal documentation of their land rights. Illegal land re-adjustments by village cadres, and government land takings for non-agricultural purposes, also remain a problem.

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