protection of the arable earths
During the first session of the 11st APN, the Chinese Ministry of the Territory and Resources declared that the protection of the arable earths was at a time vital for the national economy and for the people's subsistence. According to the official of the ministry, China needs at least 120 millions of hectares of arable earths in order to feed its 1.3 billions of inhabitants.
The Vice-minister M. Yun Xiaosu made known that the government would begin this year to put a device of high technology in place in view of to discover and to warn the illegal fundamental use, more particularly the one of the arable earths. China treated 31 thousand 700 cases of violation of the fundamental use thanks to a campaign of 100 days started last year in September. This country aimed to rage against the local governments having provided residential lands illegally to the real estate promoters, as well as to punish the official not having respected the decrees and extended the zones of real estate development. China possessed 121 millions of earth hectares arable end 2006, what represents 0.09 per person hectares, either less 40% in relation to the world average.


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