关键词: 土地流转, 农户行为, 家庭承包, 土地利用, 重庆

Abstract: Using a large data set gathered in household surveys conducted in Chongqing from December, 2003 to April, 2005, this paper examines some important aspects of agricultural land use under household responsibility system(HRS). The results indicate that the general trend is that the rate of land transfer is higher in the Yuxi economic corridor than in the metropolitan area, which, in turn, has a higher transfer rate than the Three-Gorges economic zone. Gradually, the mode of subcontracting has been accepted and adopted by the local farmers, and the modes of land renting and alienation in exchange of cash are beginning to appeal to some of the households. Land renting or leasing, is the chief form of land transfer in the metropolitan area, while most farm households in the Yuxi economic corridor and the Three-Gorges economic zone prefer the form of subcontracting, which does not terminate the original contract relations. The responses of land use patterns and land use environment to land transfer are noticeable in the sampling villages. Most of the transferred farmland in the metropolitan area is allotted to non-agricultural uses. In the Yuxi economic corridor and the Three-Gorges economic zone, only a small portion of the transferred land is used for non-agricultural uses and the intensiveness of land use is enhanced for most of it without major changes in land cover.The conditions of land tenure control the scope of land transfer without great inter-regional variation. The degree of development of the rural land market not only impacts the scope of land transfer in the region, but also constitutes the fundamental causes for the inter-regional variation in land transfer scope and in the evolution of transfer modes. Social security plays a decisive role in whether the farmers are willing to quit farming and in what way they will quit farming. Management of land transfer, which includes rights security management and land use management after the transfer, is essential for standardizing the behavior of the principal agents in land transfer, for reducing disputes in transfer and ensuring the smooth proceeding of land transfer according to law. Understanding the psychology of the farm households under the changing macroeconomic environment and their responses to the driving factors for land transfer is of tremendous significance to the establishment of a market law-abiding and human-oriented system for land transfer in China.

Key words: land transfer, farmer’s behavior, household responsibility system, land use, Chongqing