BEIJING (Reuters) — China has enacted legislation to better safeguard farmers’ land rights and encourage the formation of village collectives, with the goal of bolstering the country’s struggling rural economy and achieving food security, according to official media.
While all farmland in China is state-owned, farmers have decades-long land lease rights that are exercised on their behalf by collectives, which have been chastised for failing to give farmers a strong voice.
The new Rural Collective Economic Organisations Law, which goes into force on May 1, 2025, outlines the function of rural collectives and gives farmers supervision over them.
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