Evaluation of performance of land consolidation projects in Sichuan Province

As performance evaluation is critical for improving land consolidation projects, it is vital to construct and choose an evaluation system suitable for different land consolidation projects. Based on the 2011?2015 Land Consolidation Plan in Sichuan Province, this paper selected 4 typical land consolidation projects in 4 counties (Cangxi County, Hongya County, Gulin County and Yanyuan County) of the province and used the IPOE (input, process, output, effect) evaluation framework to build an evaluation system. The paper then used the entropy weight method to verify the index weight and matter-element method to establish the matter-element evaluation model used to evaluate the performance of the land consolidation project. The results showed that: 1) the performance levels (correlation degrees) of the land consolidation projects in Cangxi County, Hongya County, Gulin County and Yanyuan County were respectively graded as excellent (0.214 0), excellent (0.316 4), excellent (0.401 8) and poor ( 1.914 9). 2) The logical model used in the evaluation framework to establish the evaluation index system was consistent with the concept of comprehensive performance and thus conducive for comprehensive evaluation of land consolidation projects performance. Thus the matter-element analysis was suitable for evaluation of the performance of different land consolidation projects. On this basis, the evaluation of the performance of land consolidation projects in Sichuan was to some extent practical and suitable. 3) Although the land consolidation projects in Sichuan Province had achieved significant results, there was still need to strengthen macro and micro bases of the project. This required shifting from capital investment and organizational management to scientific development suitable for construction designs. At the same time, there was the need to strengthen system construction in order to ensure the completion of the land consolidation projects in timely, qualitative and quantitative manner. More scientific, environmentally-friendly and resource-saving construction design and process could significantly improve the performance of project construction. Furthermore, the suitable scale of management of agricultural lands after consolidation and the development characteristic of agriculture were possible ways of increasing agricultural income to ensure greater public satisfaction. It was only by the above measures that the performance of the land consolidation projects could be improved.