China has carried out a tentative reform in temporary land use for opencast mine since 2005, which still needs improvement and boosting in theoretical research and policy. This paper uses insitu survey, references, cases and comparison to study this topic. Land use in opencast coal mine is marked by exclusive occupation, strong disturbance, long term and diversity. The temporary land use is closely related to easement, land lease right and land requisition, is a land requisition behavior which is to be paid, forcible and to be returned in easement. It concludes that coal enterprises should determine land use period in accordance with coal resource and mining technology from land requisition to temporary land use, regulate land return procedure. Government and enterprises shall adjust their behaviors to adapt this policy.

The purpose of the paper is to reveal the general rules of peasants relocation and settlement in large coal enterprises by studying the resettlement measures and living conditions of the third land acquisition in Pingshuo opencast mine. Methods employed was the combination of literature analysis, questionnaire, interview and other methods. The results show that the settlement peasants’income level, living conditionswere improved, and the satisfaction degree was high, besides of land compensation, resettlement compensation and housing compensation, Pingshuo opencast mine also offers job placement for aged 18 to 35, project outsourcing, comprehensive and high level of social security. The research conclusions are the land expropriation made landlost peasants rich of land expropriation by the large coal mine, and it made a high rate of urbanization which is the goalof local government, the relationship between local government and peasants waschanged, from the two sides of contradictions to the common side, but another side is the large mine. However, job placement ability of coal mine is unsustainable, in addition, community constructionis necessary for peasants settlement.

This paper, based on a perplexing concept of basic farmlands, garden lands and wood lands due to agricultural adjustment, aims to clarify the definition of basic farmlands, by means of data review, theoretical study and logic analysis. The results indicate that the existing definition of basic farmlands can not meet the needs of practice, so it is necessary to redefine the basic farmlands, which shall not be occupied in a time or long term, well equipped with irrigation works, and can be altered or be excellent plantation, and its extension is a production base where can provide food and industrial materials, and its scope is enlarged to include garden lands besides other agricultural lands.