Abstract: Based on the survey data of 15 counties’ rural land consolidation in Hexi Corridor, the spatial characteristics and influence factors of farmers’ participation in rural land consolidation were explored. The fuzzy comprehensive evaluation was used to measure the farmers’ participation, the exploratory spatial data analysis was used to determine the spatial characteristics and differences, and the spatial econometric model was applied to analyze the influence factors. The results showed that:(1) The farmers’ participation was generally low, and the spatial characteristics were obvious, which showed a significant positive spatial autocorrelation. (2) The “hot regions” of farmers’ participation were concentrated in Shiyang River and Shule River Basin, while Suzhou District, Gaotai County, Linze County were the “blind regions” in Black River Basin, showing a “dumbbell” structure. (3) The spatial error model showed that, the farmland blocks, the village manager‘s attitude towards rural land consolidation, farmers’ market expectations for farm products have a more significant effect on the spatial disparity of farmers’ participation. According to the actual situations, it is helpful to explore the spatial characteristics and influence factors of farmers’ participation for making different policies of the farmers’ participation for the government and land departments, and providing theoretical and method references for promoting the land consolidation performance and farmers’ participation.

Key words: rural land consolidation, farmer‘s participation, exploratory spatial data analysis, spatial econometric model, Hexi Corridor