 
June 12, 2011, Center for Rural Development Policy organized the 52th donated lecture of Norinchukin Research Institute. Liu Qi, the resecrcher in our center, who is also the deputy secretary-general of the People’s Government of Anhui Province and director of Poverty Alleviation Office of Anhui Province, made a report with the topic of “Research on China’s Landless Peasants”. Professor Xin Xian, deputy secretary general of Center for Rural Development Policy and Ma Ling, the office director of the center also attended the lecture. Professor Guo Pei, a researcher of the center presided over the lecture.
Guo Pei expressed his warm welcome for Liu Qi’s visit and his theme report, and he introduced the field of study of Liu Qi as well. Liu Qi summarized the current status of China’s landless peasants, the changes of peasants’ material and spiritual conditions in the process of urbanization, and the inevitable trend of improving the security system of the peasants. About the current condition of China’s landless peasants Liu Qi explained four major farmer issues caused by government’s or enterprises’ land expropriation: the housing issue, the idle labor issue, the changing role issue and the generation continuation issue after the peasants’ lost of their land. Liu also proposed appropriate police measures according to the four major issues. To solve the housing problem after the peasants’ lost of their land, Liu Qi learned from the successful experience of the West and stressed that only the negotiation mechanism to be introduced and let the farmers participate, could the compensation system be improved and the housing problem to a certain extent could be solvrd. To solve the problem of idle labor, Liu Qi suggested that the government should start from establishing landless peasants re-employment training mechanism, increasing the support of the re-employed farmets and encouraging the land acquisition enterprises to vigorously absorb landless peasats and the peasants to be settled in the community.
At last, Liu Qi concluded the report by comparing and analysing China’s rural land expropriation and Britain’s Enclosure Movement and he pointed out that the reform of China’s land system is imperative. Liu Qi wished that in the process of the reform, the interests of the farmers should always be put in the first place and the urbanization process should be promoted healthily and harmoniously. |
