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On June 25, 1991, China celebrated its first Land Day to raise public awareness about the importance of land resources, as seen in a photo from China Daily (right).
Fast economic development, urbanization and industrialization over recent decades have brought a 24/35 18/25 28/36 26/36 19/25 25/35 26/33 26/32 20/27 26/33 25/36 18/24 27/36 17/30 27/32 22/28 18/22 19/28 14/26 16/20 26/31 27/35 27/35 25/32 22/25 26/32 T T S C
C T T Sh C S R O S T R Sh D Sh Sh R C C Sh St Sh Shanghai Shenyang Shenzhen Shijiazhuang Suzhou Taipei Taiyuan Tianjin Urumqi Wuhan Xi'an Xiamen Xining Yantai Yinchuan Zhengzhou Zhuhai Athens Berlin Brussels Geneva Istanbul London Madrid Moscow Paris Rome Vienna 23/33 22/32 26/32 25/32 20/29 26/33 21/26 26/32 21/32 26/35 23/35 25/32 14/24 22/30 20/25 25/31 26/30 21/29 13/16 13/19 14/20 20/27 14/20 20/31 15/23 13/22 18/23 14/16 rapid loss of farmland.
Authorities have made rigorous efforts to protect the country’s arable land and shore up its food security.
In 1994, the Basic Farmland Protection Regulation was passed, which requires the designation of basic farmland protection districts at the township level and prohibits any conversion of land in those districts to other uses.
In 1999, the Land Administration Law was implemented.
Early this year, the State Council, China’s Cabinet, issued a document to hold O C C T O C D T S C C S D D D R Sh D D C O D C S O O C D 27/36 21/27 27/32 23/35 24/31 26/33 18/28 24/32 18/24 27/35 24/31 25/32 13/25 21/25 19/31 25/29 25/31 20/26 15/18 14/20 14/21 22/30 17/18 19/30 13/26 13/24 19/23 11/18 C T T T R C D T C C D S R
O R Sh D D S C D S S C S D D provincial governments and officials accountable for farmland protection.
By 2020, China aims to build a national soil monitoring network to aid its efforts to prevent and control soil pollution.
The latest data on soil pollution were released in 2014, based on a survey jointly conducted by the country’s environmental and land watchdogs. MONDAY TUESDAY Abu Dhabi 29/40 Bangkok 27/34 Colombo 27/30 Dubai 29/38 Hanoi 26/34 Islamabad 24/40 Jakarta 24/30 Karachi 29/34 Kuala Lumpur 24/32 Manila 25/33 Mumbai 25/30 New Delhi 29/41 Pyongyang 19/31 Riyadh 21/39 Seoul 21/33 Singapore 27/30 Sydney 8/15 Teheran 24/39 Tokyo 20/32 Wellington 11/12 Yangon 23/31 S D D S D S D D D D St C O C C R S D S D R 29/40 26/34 27/30 29/39 25/35 26/39 24/31 28/35 24/30 25/33 25/30 29/38 21/26 20/40 22/26 24/29 8/17 24/39 21/30 8/13 23/31 S D D S D S D D D D R C R S D R S D D D D
It was found that 16 percent of the randomly selected spots surveyed within an area of 6.3 million square kilometers were polluted.
China had a total of 1.35 million sq km of arable land at the end of 2016. BuenosAires 0/8 Caracas 25/26 Chicago 18/23 Houston 27/31 Las Vegas 32/40 Los Angeles 17/20 Mexico city 16/18 New York 18/24 Ottawa 16/17 Rio De Janeiro 23/23 San Francisco 16/17 Sao Paulo 16/18 Vancouver 14/15 Washington 23/26 Cairo 24/33 CapeTown 13/17 Johannesburg 2/14 Lagos 23/24 Nairobi 13/22 S D O D S D D D S D D D R S S D S C O 0/10 S 26/26 D 21/26 O 28/29 D 31/38 S 17/20 S 16/19 D 23/25 S 16/22 S 22/24 S 15/18 C 14/19 S 12/16 D 25/27 S 24/36 D 12/18 S 1/12 S 23/26 D 13/23 C