Abstract
Land consolidation is a spatial problem-solving land management instrument that attempts to eliminate certain types of land fragmentation, to enhance land productivity, and to improve rural production and living conditions for the purpose of coordinating urban-rural development, through a process of concentration of plots or rejuvenation of failing and aging rural settlements and abandoned industrial and mining land, which is usually accompanied by the construction of new roads, irrigation facilities and other auxiliary services. Rural spatial restructuring mainly includes the restructuring of rural production, living and ecological spaces. Land consolidation can provide space and supporting platform for rural restructuring and vitalization and realizing urban-rural integrated development in China. This chapter puts forward that land consolidation, as an indispensable way of rural restructuring and vitalization promoted by land use transitions, includes three types, i.e., agricultural land consolidation, hollowed villages consolidation and industrial and mining land consolidation. The optimization and restructuring of suitable living space with amenity, intensive and high-efficient production space and the ecological space with green mountains and clean water in rural areas will rely on the innovations of regional engineering technology, policy and mechanism, and mode of rural land consolidation. As a crucial means of promoting rural vitalization, land consolidation is endowed with new connotations such as activating the key elements of rural development, coordinating the vitalization of the physical space and the promotion of the spiritual core, integrating the restructuring of the actual physical space and the rural governance system.
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