“…Li et al, 2014), multi-objective reconstruction of rural settlements with inter-village social connections (Kong et al, 2021), the diagnosis of key problems in the ecological restoration of land space, identification of important ecological sources, ecological restoration zoning, and evaluation of ecological engineering benefits (Du et al, 2022;H. Jiang, Peng, et al, 2022;Ran et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2020), the CLC classification system in China and organization of key issues in land consolidation for rural revitalization (Han et al, 2019(Han et al, , 2021, essential characteristics of CLC and its mechanism in promoting rural reconstruction (Fan et al, 2021;Rao, 2022), and the assessment of land consolidation potential and identification of key priority areas for land consolidation projects (Pašakarnis & Maliene, 2010). With the implementation of China's national strategies, such as rural revitalization, land and space planning, and ecological civilization construction, rapid economic development has profoundly affected the transformation of land use and the demand for land consolidation has continued to increase.…”