Abstract: Large scale farmland transfer would involve various stakeholders, including not only the peasant family at the outflow side and the scale operation entity at the inflow side, but also the government decision supervision departments and the local rural communities. Various stakeholders form organic symbiotic relationship by means of benefit connections. The formation mechanism of the symbiosis benefits relays on the interest balance of the mutual contradictions and conflicts. Therefore, the performance evaluation of scale farmland transfer should not only directly measure the economic performance of both the inflow side and outflow side, but also include the balance between the short term operation income and the future agricultural sustainable development, the balance between the dominant economic performance and the recessive social performance, and the balance between internal economic performance and external social responsibility performance.

Key words: farmland transfer; scale management; performance evaluation; stakeholders