改革开放以来，尤其是20世纪90年代，中国的城市化以前所未有的速度发展，城市化水平从1979年的18.96%提高到2003年的40.53%。然而，中国的城市化并没有解决好城乡社会经济协调发展、逐步消除城乡二元结构的问题。低价征用农民的土地，安置失地农民不到位，地方政府截留、挪用、拖欠征地费，侵占农民利益的现象比比皆是。当前，失地农民已成为中国社会新的弱势群体。进入21世纪以后，中国的城市化仍将保持快速发展的势头。如何在中国城市化迅速推进的过程中解决好失地农民的就业和生活问题，为其可持续发展提供保障，是目前全社会都非常关注的热点和焦点问题。也就是说，相对于满足失地农民的现有生存需要，我们更应该着眼于失地农民真正的自我发展。但由于现行征地制度对失地农民利益保护不足，土地征收补偿标准过低且不合理，失地农民的生存现状很不乐观。此外，失地农民安置困难重重，再就业也面临很多障碍，特别是社会保障的缺失，使得失地农民的可持续发展前景更加暗淡。而问题的根源就在于农地集体所有的制度安排不合理，直接导致农地产权主体不清，所有权主体虚置。因此，解决失地农民问题首先要完善农村土地集体所有制，然而，农地集体所有难以克服所有者虚位的问题。因此，尽管未来较长的段时期内条件还不成熟，但是从长远上看，农地私有化才是解决问题的根本途径。就目前而言，解决失地农民可持续发展问题现实可行的措施是：改革征地制度，严格限定征地范围，并保障征地程序的公正；提高补偿标准，对征地补偿政策进行市场化调整；在“可持续发展”目标下，创新征地安置模式，并大力推进失地农民的再就业；变土地批租为年租，为失地农民社会保障筹集资金，并构建一整套的失地农民的社会保障体系。

Since reform and opening to the outside, especially in 90’s of 20th century, China's urbanization is developing in an unprecedented speed. The level of China's urbanization increases from 18.96% in 1979 to 40.53% in 2003. However, China's urbanization doesn’t solve the question of City-village coordinated development, and gradually eliminates the urban-rural dual structure. Expropriate countryside land in low price, the job of allocating land-expropriated farmers has not completed yet, local government keep, appropriate and default to compensate for expropriating land, farmer’s benefit is damaged, These matters appears frequently. At present, land-expropriated farmers have became the new disadvantaged in China society. When we enter for the 21st century, China's urbanization will still develop in a high speed, how to settle the living and employment of land-expropriated farmers in process of China's urbanization and ensure their continue development is a focus in China society.In other words, relative to suffice land-expropriated farmers’ current living, we should pay more attention on the continue development of land-expropriated farmers. But nowadays land-expropriated system can not protect land-expropriated farmers’ benefit, and the level of compensation in land-expropriating is too low, so these land-expropriated farmers are in a subsistence status, In addition, placing land-expropriated farmers is a very difficult job, especially land-expropriated farmers have not be brought into the social security system, all these make continues development of land-expropriated farmers impractically. So, what is the reason of these things, I think the reason is irrationality in the collective ownership system of countryside land, and induce to the property right of countryside land is not clear. So, reforming the collective ownership system of countryside land is a primary job, despite the condition is not prepared at present, but in a long term view, the privatization of countryside land can solve the question thorough.In the present case, we can do the job of ensuring land-expropriated farmers’ continue development in some way, they are: reforming land-expropriated system, increasing the level of compensation in land-expropriating, improving employment of land-expropriated farmers energetically, bringing land-expropriated farmers into a maturity social security system.