China will revise the existing standards for the use of rural homestead, and the relevant head of the Ministry of land and resources today made an explanation on the management of rural homestead. The person in charge said that the Ministry of land and resources encouraged all localities to actively explore the establishment of a system of paid use of residential bases within collective economic organizations.

On the issue of rural homestead, the person in charge said that under the current situation, the Ministry of land and resources will strictly delimit the expansion boundary of rural residential areas, reasonably determine the number, layout and land use scale of homestead, guide the relatively centralized construction of farmers' houses, and promote the appropriate removal and merger of natural villages.

At the same time, the Ministry of land and resources requires that the land and resources management departments of all cities and counties shall list the residential land indicators separately in the rural construction land indicators issued by the provincial level, so as to guarantee the residential construction land of rural residents. The Ministry of land and resources will strictly manage the homestead and guarantee the usufruct of the homestead according to law.

The person in charge said that the Ministry of land and resources will promptly revise the existing standards for the use of homestead. In this standard, according to the different regional characteristics of urban and rural areas, different housing types will be distinguished to revise the existing standards of homestead area, establish and improve the standards of rural per capita land use, and control the scale of homestead and village construction land.

It is reported that the Ministry of land and resources requires all localities to guide collective economic organizations to regulate the distribution and use of rural homestead by economic means on the premise of fully respecting the wishes of farmers, regulate the rational use of rural homestead, especially idle homestead, and promote the solution to the problems of intensive use and excessive use of existing homestead.

The person in charge said that the examination and approval method of homestead will also be reformed. The current examination and approval method will be adjusted as follows: for the use of unused land for the construction of villager's houses, it shall be examined and approved by the village, township (town) level by level, and submitted to the county (city) government in batches for approval; for the use of agricultural land (except for basic farmland), each county (city) shall apply to the people's government at a higher level for the transfer of agricultural land in batches according to the total amount of that year, and the provincial (District, city) or city divided into districts or autonomous prefecture government shall Approval.

This year, the Ministry of land and resources will also promote the registration and certification of rural collective land; at the same time, clarify the conditions for land market access, and regulate the transfer of the right to use collective construction land. That is to say, in addition to the scale of urban industrial and mining construction, in addition to residential base and collective public welfare construction land, the collective construction land that conforms to the overall planning of land use, is acquired according to law and has been confirmed as operational can be used and transferred with compensation in various ways such as transfer and transfer.

The person in charge said that in the near future, the Ministry of land and resources will issue methods for the transfer and transfer of the right to use rural collective construction land.