Abstract:

Yangtze Delta is facing some serious landuse problems in recent years, for example, the land resource is used without effective regulation on the condition of that the land resource is so precious and rare for the economic and social development. It is of great significance to achieve the goal of the scale land use for the development of rural economy and better protection of rural land resource in this area. The new concept of scale land use is proposed in this paper.It is a kind of change of land use structure and optimization of spatial patterns to maximize the benefit of land use. The goal of the scale land use is to distribute and use the land intensively and manage the land resource effectively. Based on this new concept of the scale land use, the authors build an index system for the evaluation of the scale land use of villages from for aspects of focus in this paper, such as concentration, collection, intension and efficiency of agricultural land and constructive land, to assess the level of the scale land use in Taicang city in 2010 based on the fuzzy synthetic evaluation model. The result showed that it has achieved the goal of the scale land use in Taicang city basically, but the phenomena of the fragmentation of agricultural land and decentralization of the constructive land were still serious, and the levels of the scale land use of both agricultural land and constructive land in Taicang city need to be improved in the future. Based on the evaluation results, it is necessary to regulate the fragmentation of agricultural land for the villages which lied around the construction area and the port area of Taicang city, because its level of scale land use of constructive land is higher than agricultural land due to the effective exploitation of constructive land. At the same time, large villages should reinforce the consolidation of rural residential area because large scale of agricultural land break up the accumulative of large scale of residential land. Some effective measurements are proposed in the end of this paper, including reinforcing the management of the distributed agricultural land, working out conscious land use planning which integrate immediate benefits with longterm benefits contemporarily, completing the transformation mechanism of land use through the way of weakening the intervention function in the procedure of land use management, and improving the social security system to relieve the anxiety of giving up the ownership of the rural land for farmers