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The purpose of these Regulations is to regulate the contracted management of rural land and guarantee the legitimate rights and interests of the contracting parties. The Regulations consist of 6 Chapters: General provisions (I); Contracting by households (II); Contracting Concluded by Other Means (III); Settlement of Disputes (IV); Legal Responsibility (V); Supplementary provisions (VI).Land in rural areas mentioned in the Regulations mean arable land, forest land and grassland owned collectively by the peasants and those owned by the State but used collectively by the peasants according to law (art.3). Contracting of rural land shall be fulfilled in the form of contracting by households within the economic organizations of the collectives, while rural lands such as barren mountains, waste, ditches, barren hills and waste beaches, which are not suitable for contracting by households, shall be contracted by means of bid invitation, auction, or open negotiation.For the rural land which is not designated as basic farmland, the contractor may be engaged in production and operation activities of horticulture, animal husbandry and fishery, etc. Contractual operation right of land obtained through household contract may, according to law, be circulated by subcontract, lease, exchange, transfer, putting into share-holding ventures or other means.
Implements: Law of the People's Republic of China on the Contracting of Rural Land. (2002-08-29)
