https://www.scmp.com/rss/325873/feed Dan Wang is an assistant professor at the School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com On February 4, China’s State Council and the party’s Central Committee jointly released a document signalling more flexibility for rural land use rights. It will moderately relax controls on rights for rural land allocated for villagers to build homes and for houses left vacant by migrant workers. Rural residents will have more options to rent out land and to use land use rights as collateral to borrow from banks. Companies are also encouraged to invest in rural land and housing. Prior to this... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2133842/china-reforms-rural-land-use-mindful-risks-ecology-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2133842/china-reforms-rural-land-use-mindful-risks-ecology-and?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:03:36 +0000