The reform of rural land system under the leadership of the Communist Party of

China experienced three stages: Soviets ownership by confiscating major landlords’ land, farmers’ private ownership and collective ownership,while its management system experienced three stages of farmers’ ownership with farmers’ operation, collective ownership with collective management, and collective ownership with family operation. Trust land transfer system is a new form of separating ownership with management on the basis of contract mechanism. It further develops, applies and innovates Marxist land theories by sticking to the existing land tenure system, deepening the principle of separating ownership and management and conforming to the need of expanding operational land scale. It also suggests that accelerating land transfer must adhere to the collective ownership of rural land, comply with Deng Xiaoping’s “Two Leaps” thinking and respect the wishes of farmers.

Editor: Zhong Yao

Studies On Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping Theories.2016.No.2.