Abstract: With the continuous development of China’s industrialization and urbanization, a large number of land expropriation happened. The process of land expropriation includes preliminary planning, mid-term negotiations and later period placement. During this process, the weighted relationship between farmer rights protection and national economic development is not entirely determined by the subjective will of policy, but rather a game structure more subjected to the relationship between the economic development at the given period, the people’s consciousness of rights and the national administrative intervention, in other words, the interactive relationship between economic power, social power and administrative power throughout the whole process of land expropriation. To reconstruct the system of land expropriation, in fact, is to improve the system of land planning, land expropriation negotiation and settlement of land-lost farmers through the game structure of balancing the three powers.

Key words: land expropriation; economic power; social power; administrative power; institutional reconstruction