Changing the Collectively-Owned Construction Landscape

For many decades, there has been an issue with ownership titles of rural collectively-owned land in China – namely that titles are often incomplete. This poses obstacles to the circulation of collectively-owned for-profit construction land, significantly impeding the integrated planning and development of the country's urban and rural areas. This in turn causes the development of rural regions of China to greatly lag behind urban areas, restricts the means by which farmers may increase their income, and reduces the capabilities of rural residents to steadily grow their earnings. As a result, this disrupts China's overall development, and leads to a divergence between the legal treatment of urban and rural land, and inequality between the status of ownership of collectively-owned land and state-owned land.