"China is making new progress in revising its Land Administration Law. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress [adopted] amendments to the Land Administration Law……The main focuses are trial reforms in the areas of rural land expropriation, the marketization of rural collective construction land, and the homestead land system — the three areas where the contradictions of China’s land management system are increasingly concentrated…

…The [existing] Land Administration Law, which was first promulgated in 1986…states that there should be no transfer or leasing of the right to use land collectively owned by farmers...This system has long been criticized for allowing undercompensation for expropriated land, and for the unfair distribution of gains from land appreciation...The situation has…seriously infringes directly on farmers’ rights and interests…"