Influence and Evaluation on Human Settlement Environment After Rural Homestead Consolidation in China: Evidence from the Typical Villages in Jiangsu Province

In China, rural “hollowing” has become increasingly evident. With increasing vs. decreasing land-use policy, local government promote rural land consolidation by merging villages and remediation hollow village, making the inaccessible and poor environment farmers improved. In this paper, authors analyzed 158 farmers satisfaction degree of human living environment to evaluate the influence of rural homestead consolidation through typical seven villages investigation in Jiangsu Province. The results show that the farmers of human living environment totally satisfactory accounted for 47 % of the general satisfaction accounted for 32, 21 % dissatisfied, overall satisfaction with a mean of 2.70, the satisfaction index was 58.86. At the same time, survey found that farmers housing quality, drainage and sewerage, their children to school, and the spirit of entertainment and are not satisfied, because this project belong to the government action, the lack of effective communication with farmers and participation rights. Finally, the authors propose to fully consider the needs and wishes of the farmers, giving farmers the right to participate, and supervise the quality of human settlement construction policy recommendations.