The Governance Logic and Path Differentiation of Defining Rural Collective Land Rights—A Comparative Case Study on the Renovation of Village-level Industrial Parks in the Pearl River Delta
The definition and governance of rural collective land rights are one of the core issues in cur-rent rural revitalization and urban-rural integration development.This article attempts to further expand on the"social perspective of property rights"to clarify the theoretical logic of rural collective land rights in contemporary China.Through a comparative case analysis of the differences in the results of defining land rights between the"diversified property right form dominated by grassroots villages"and the"single prop-erty right form dominated by local governments"formed during the implementation of the policy of renova-ting village-level industrial parks in two adjacent manufacturing towns in the Pearl River Delta,this article believes that:firstly,the game results between local governments and grassroots villages around the defi-nition of collective land property rights are influenced by the national governance structure and village so-cial structure.Under the decentralized national governance structure,the results depend on the differ-ences in the social structure of villages and play a role through voice mechanisms.Secondly,local govern-ments can shape the governance structure of villages through formal institutional adjustments,thereby strengthening or weakening the collective action capacity of grassroots villages,ultimately having a sus-tained impact on the results.Finally,this article emphasizes that under the policy background of urban-rural integration development,the eastern region should pay more attention to the land rights and interests of village collectives and villagers,and actively explore new mechanisms for local governments and village collectives to cooperate in land development.
Rural collective landDefinition of property rightsGrassroot social structureThe ability of collective action