Land Resource Protection Reinforced in North ChinaNorth China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region will adopt stricter measures to protect arable land, as revealed by senior officials in the region.Han Yunbin, director with the land and natural resource office of the region, said the government will strengthen the control of the use of land for urban construction and building houses in rural regions to avoid the careless building witnessed in previous years. Han said the region will keep at least 7 million hectare of arable land for farming and 4.14 million hectares of meadows for grazing by the year of 2005. China will adopt the measures of land prices and land property management to strictly control land use and push forward the development of the land market, according to the Ministry of Land and Resources. China will accelerate the updating of land resources information and set up a land management information system, which will be made available to the public and will be used for governmental land resource management and economic development. China has the third largest land area in the world, but its per- capita cultivated land is only 0.1 hectare, or 43 percent of the world's average. |
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