Journal of Dali University ›› 2025, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (7): 77-85.DOI: 10. 3969 / j. issn. 2096-2266. 2025. 07. 012

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Deviations and Adjustment Mechanisms in the Implementation of the "One Household, One Homestead"
Policy: Observations and Reflections from a Case Study of Dali City

  

  1. 1. School of Economics and Management, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan 671003, China;
    2. School of Economics and Business Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
  • Received:2024-05-14 Revised:2024-06-01 Online:2025-07-15 Published:2025-07-21

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Abstract:

 "One household, one homestead" is a core institutional arrangement in China's rural homestead system, playing a vital role
in upholding and developing collective ownership, ensuring farmers' peaceful living and productive work, and promoting rational land
use. However, the system has experienced operational deviations in practice due to ambiguous definitions of "household" and
"homestead" and unclear measurement standards, difficulties in dynamically adjusting homestead allocations with changes in
household compositions, and lack of supervision over village planning and construction. These deviations are mainly reflected in
structural imbalances in homestead rights protection, coexisting as insufficient protection cases
（such as households without
homesteads
, households with undersized homesteads
, or multiple households sharing one homestead
） and excessive protection cases
（such as homesteads occupied by non-registered households
, households with oversized homesteads exceeding legal area limits
, or
households owning multiple homesteads
）
, leading to low land use efficiency
. Through practical experiences such as precise definition
of "households" and "homesteads", guidance by practical village planning, improvement of policies to safeguard farmers' rights and
interests, and exploration of mechanisms for paid use and withdrawal of excessively occupied or idle homesteads, Dali City has
provided valuable references for optimizing policies and reconstructing institutions to correct operational deviations of the "one
household
, one homestead" policy and return it to its essential purpose.

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