Taking Jiangdu City in Jiangsu Province as a study area

a comprehensive evaluation index systemwas built concerning three aspects:landscape distribution of rural residential area

capability of rural residential land consolidation and its demands.Then rural residential land consolidation was zoned based on thecomprehensive evaluation result and per capita rural residential land area.The empirical result suggested thatrural residential area in Jiangdu City should be divided into priority consolidation area

key consolidation Aarea

key consolidation B area

moderate consolidation area and optimal consolidation area.Priority consolidation area should focus on urban-rural integration and accelerate pace of urban-rural coordination development;key consolidation A area should focus on rural space reconstruction based on economic fundamentals;and key consolidation B area should strengthen idle land remediation combined with arrangement of smallscale village relocation.It was inappropriate to carry out large-scale remediation activities in moderate consolidation area and it was more proper to arrange idle land remediation step by step there.Optimal consolidationarea should mainly optimize rural residential land internal structure

while controlling the expansion of residential land.Rural residential land consolidation was zoned according to comprehensive evaluation score andper capita residential area

which may provide a scientific basis for the order and content of rural residentialland consolidation.