Contrastive Analysis on Welfare Demand and Homestead Vacating Willingness of Farmers and Consolidation Mode of Different Types of Village—Based on Empirical Analysis of 30 Administrative Villages in Shandong

Zhang Miao;Chen Yinrong;Zhao Zhenguo;College of Public Management,Huazhong Agricultural University;State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science,Wuhan University;

Industrial-type village;;Common village;;Farmers' welfare;;Homestead vacating;;Homestead consolidation mode

The homestead consolidation experiments had been conducted in a number of provinces. Developing a homestead consolidation mode according to farmers' willingness which was suitable for different stages in different areas was the current trend. Taking 30 administrative villages in Shandong as research objects,combining with the methods of field questionnaire survey and descriptive statistical analysis,they were divided into industrial- type or common villages. Then the farmers' current welfare demand,the willingness of handing in idle homestead and vacating living homestead of the two types of village were comparatively analyzed,and the respective homestead consolidation modes were discussed. The conclusions were as follows. The in-dustrial- type village was better than common village in terrain,public service facilities,degree of transportation convenience and collective economic strength. The farmers of both two types of village regarded family's health,wages and social security as important benefits,their welfare demand transformed from material to spiritual,and the demand levels of industrial- type village was slightly higher than those of common village. Both71. 93% farmers of industrial- type village and 64. 86% farmers of common village were willing to hand in the idle homestead with financial compensation from local government. The farmers of industrial- type village had greater dependence on homestead than those of common village who were more lack of knowledge about homestead. More than 90% farmers of two types of village were willing to vacating living homestead with certain financial or other forms of compensation. The modes for homestead consolidation space technology,organizational management,fund raising and institution change of industrial- type village were village merger,government organization,government and market co- investment and construction respectively; and those of common village were village reconstruction and control,government organization,government investment and transformation respectively.