The Importance of Data In Assessing China’s Reform

and Development

Liu Shouying Senior Research Fellow

The State Council, P.R.China

Fact

1.The puzzle of data on people, grain and land2.How to get data in China: National land survey; Annual changed data by Ministry of Land resources 3.Different ministries are responsible for different lands data and management. 4.Scholars are difficult to involve in analysis

II.The Importance of land data in economic and development

1.China’s land-dependent development mode

2.lack of data on land use structure, land conversion, land transfer, land income,land tax, land cost and land collateral.

III. The Importance of land data on land reform

1.China’s land reform scheme: 33 pilot counties on land markets, rural land expropriation system and rural homestead system reform

2.Need data information to monitoring and assessing reform performance.