Since the establishment of Shenbei new district, the land consolidation has been carried out with achievements via market mechanism. This paper expands the fundamental roles of market mechanism from planning, coordination, management, land turnover, operation, and service optimization. It is of significance to carry out rural land consolidation in suburbs of central cities. The authors suggest that Shenbei new district shall be upgraded to a national land consolidation model district, a national tentative district of rural land management system reform.

Farmland quality assessment is a basic work for land management, indicating land management has a transition from quantity to quality. The paper, based on the conception of farmland quality, and on the feasibility and methods of quantitative farmland evaluation, expands the technical framework and progresses in China's farmland classification, graduation and assessment project as well as its outcome products, forms, and their possible applications in land resources management fields, and presents some suggestions for the further work in the second national land survey and “Golden Land Project”.