Regulations of Hubei province on the contracting and managing of rural Land.

These Regulations have been formulated for the purpose of stabilizing and perfecting the two-level operation system, which is based on the responsibility system of contracting by households supplemented by unified management, protecting the legal rights and interests of the parties of the contracting of rural land, so as to improve the development of agriculture and the rural economy and stabilize the rural areas. The Regulations consist of 62 articles divided into 7 Chapters: General provisions (I); Establishment of contracted management rights of rural land (II); Protection of contracted management rights of rural land (III); Administration of the contracted management right certificates of rural land (IV); Circulation of contracted management rights of rural land (V); Settlement of Disputes and Legal Responsibility (VI); Supplementary provisions (VII).
Contracting of rural land shall be fulfilled in the form of contracting by households within the economic organizations of the collectives, while rural lands such as barren mountains, waste, ditches, barren hills and waste beaches, which are not suitable for contracting by households, shall be contracted by means of bid invitation, auction, or open negotiation.