Speaker: Zhang Qingyong, Renmin University

This talk will be given in Mandarin.

In this talk I will report on my ongoing research into the evolution of China’s land takings system since 1949. The study draws extensively on a wide range of materials, including drafts, reports and briefing materials from the legislative process, as well as diaries, work notes, papers, speeches and memoirs by those who took part in lawmaking and policymaking, supplemented by interviews with scholars and officials involved in legislation. By examining how contemporary China’s land takings laws and regulations were formulated, I hope to review in detail the development of the land takings system in New China, present its evolution as completely as possible, and analyze the main factors affecting institutional change, in order to understand the deeper forces that have shaped the land takings system.

Zhang Qingyong is a professor at the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China.  His research focuses mainly on land institutions. He has published papers in Economic Research Journal, Statistical Research, Agricultural Systems, Habitat International and other journals.  He is the author of Research on Farmland Conversion and Development in China (The Commercial Press, 2013), The Rise of Land Economics in China: 1925–1949 (The Commercial Press, 2014), and Reform of China’s Rural Land Takings System: Retrospect and Prospects (China Social Sciences Press, 2018). He is currently writing a monograph on the evolution of the land takings system since 1949.

本次主要汇报我正在做的关于1949年以来中国征地制度变迁的研究。这项研究广泛收集立法过程中的草案、报告、汇报材料，以及参与立法和政策制定者

的日记、工作笔记、论文、讲话和回忆性文字等各类资料，辅以对参与立法的学者和官员所作的访谈，希望能够通过对当代中国土地征收法律法规的制定过程

的考察，细致回顾新中国征地制度的发展历程，尽可能完整地呈现其演变脉络，并分析影响制度变迁的主要因素，以理解塑造征地制度的深层力量。张清勇，中国人民大学农业与农村发展学院教授，主要从事土地制度研究。在《经济研究》、《统计研究》、Agricultural Systems、Habitat International等发表论文，出版《中国农地转用开发问题研究》（商务2013）、《中国土地经济学的兴起：1925-1949年》（商务2014）、《中国农村土地征收制度改革：回顾与展望》（中社科2018）。目前在写1949年以来征地制度变迁的专著。

Zoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608