Table 2

Participant 1999 Net Income from Enrolled Land Versus Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) Compensation Standards

	Net Losing Households			Net Gaining Households			All Participants
	All	No Autonomy	Autonomy	All	No Autonomy	Autonomy	All	No Autonomy	Autonomy
Shaanxi (n = 103)
Number of households	7	0	7	96	28	68	103	28	75
1999 average net income from enrolled land (RMB/ha)	4,833	—	4,833	181	173	186	507	173	673
Total converted land area (ha)	5.13	—	5.13	68.11	24.28	43.83	73.24	24.28	48.95
Average difference between SLCP standard and 1999 net income (RMB/ha)^a	−3,033	—	−3,033	1,619	1,627	1,614	1,293	1,627	1,127
Share of subsidy beyond 1999 net income^b	−1.68	—	−1.68	0.90	0.90	0.90	0.72	0.90	0.63
Gansu (n = 85)
Number of households	42	22	20	43	26	17	85	48	37
1999 average net income from enrolled land (RMB/ha)	3,485	3,946	3,085	940	974	895	2,026	2,102	1,944
Total converted land area (ha)	8.52	3.96	4.56	11.44	6.48	4.96	19.97	10.44	9.53
Average difference between SLCP standard and 1999 net income (RMB/ha)^a	−1,685	−2,146	−1,285	860	826	905	−226	−302	−144
Share of subsidy beyond 1999 net income^b	−0.94	−1.19	−0.71	0.48	0.46	0.50	−0.13	−0.17	−0.08
Sichuan (n = 76)
Number of households	23	7	16	53	18	35	76	25	51
1999 average net income from enrolled land (RMB/ha)	5,371	5,918	5,143	1,031	785	1,157	2,457	2,319	2,523
Total converted land area (ha)	7.47	2.19	5.28	15.26	5.14	10.12	22.73	7.34	15.40
Average difference between SLCP standard and 1999 net income (RMB/ha)^a	−2,821	−3,368	−2,593	1,519	1,765	1,393	93	231	27
Share of subsidy beyond 1999 net income^b	−1.11	−1.32	−1.02	0.60	0.69	0.55	0.04	0.09	0.01

Source: 2003 SLCP survey data.
↵a Subsidy grain was converted to cash based on the national market price of RMB 1/kg.
↵b This is the difference between the SLCP standard and 1999 net income, as a share of the SLCP standard. Thus, for example, 0.90 means that 90% of the subsidy standard compensates a household beyond 1999 net income.