Legal basis: Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 46 If the land is expropriated by the state, it shall be announced and implemented by the local people's government at or above the county level after being approved in accordance with legal procedures. The owner and user of the expropriated land shall, within the time limit stipulated in the announcement, go through the registration of land requisition compensation with the land ownership certificate to the land administrative department of the local people's government.
Forty-eighth after the land acquisition compensation and resettlement plan is determined, the relevant local people's governments shall make an announcement and listen to the opinions of the rural collective economic organizations and farmers whose land has been expropriated.
Forty-ninth rural collective economic organizations whose land has been expropriated shall announce the revenue and expenditure of land acquisition compensation to the members of the collective economic organizations and accept supervision. It is forbidden to occupy or misappropriate the land acquisition compensation and other related expenses of the requisitioned land units.