Abstract
This study undertook an analysis of a case study village S in Sichuan province, with respect to the liquidation of farmland in Chinese inland farming villages. F irst, in a labor market where employment opportunities are scarce, and where younger farmers have left high school or college, work away from home in Chengdu city or other large cities, there tends to an increase in the lending of land usage rights. On the other hand, older farmers with no formal education or those who had completed only primary school have no option but to engage in physical labor at the construction industry within their own towns or to work in full-time farming in their villages, while expanding the scale of their activities by renting out their land. These borrowing and lending activities have pr omoted the liquidation of farmland in villages, leading numerous farmers to vacate their land; this phenomenon has, in turn, lead to the creation of upper-class farming households.
