Government departments can buy land for common people, but they should pay land compensation and resettlement subsidies.
 The land compensation fee is the compensation for land ownership. Therefore, the compensation law stipulates that it belongs to the collective, namely the collective organization of land ownership, namely the village committee or villagers' group. The land compensation fee is calculated according to the number of mu of land, and the standard is 6-10 times of the average output value of the previous three years.
 The resettlement subsidy is a compensation for land use rights and farmers' sources of livelihood. Therefore, the compensation belongs to land contractors, namely farmers themselves. If the collective resettlement subsidy is agreed, it will belong to the collective. The resettlement subsidy shall be calculated according to the agricultural population to be resettled. The compensation standard of resettlement subsidy is that the subsidy for each person to be resettled is 4-6 times of the average annual output value of the previous three years.
 Legal basis
 Article 2 of the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China, the People's Republic of China practices socialist public ownership of land, that is, ownership by the whole people and collective ownership by the working people.
 Ownership by the whole people, that is, the ownership of state owned land is exercised by the State Council on behalf of the state.
 No unit or individual may occupy, buy or sell or illegally transfer land in other forms. The right to the use of the land may be transferred according to law.
 The State may, in order to meet the needs of public interests, expropriate or requisition land and make compensation according to law.
 The State implements the system of compensated use of state-owned land according to law. However, the exception is that the State allocates the right to use State owned land within the scope prescribed by law.