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The Law is divided into 8 Chapters: General Provisions (I); Ownership and Right to the Use Land (II); General Plans for the Utilization of Land (III); Protection of Cultivated Land (IV); Land for Construction Purposes (V); Supervision and Examination (VI); Legal Responsibilities (VII); Supplementary Provisions (VIII).This Law grants the ownership of land in rural and suburban areas to the collectives. Such land must be registered and recorded by the Governments at the county level. State-owned land may be used by units or by individuals and is recorded by local People's Governments. A land survey and statistics system is introduced. The People's Governments at all levels are responsible for the preparation of plans for land utilization and urban planning must agree with the overall plan for land utilization. In the zones of rivers and lakes, utilization of land must be consistent with a comprehensive plan of development of rivers and lakes. People's Governments at all levels are required to adopt measures to protect cultivated, maintain irrigation and drainage installations, improve soil, prevent soil from desertification, control soil salinization and soil erosion. Whoever causes soil desertification or soil erosion must rectify the damage at his expense.
Implemented by: Implementation measures of the Sichuan Province on the "Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China". (1999-12-10)
Implemented by: Regulations of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone on land management. (1988-03-01)
Implemented by: Measures of Shanghai Municipality on the compensatory transfer of land use rights. (1987-11-29)
Implemented by: Regulations on land-use management for foreign investment enterprises in Jiangsu province. (1987-03-07)
Implemented by: Regulations on the Protection of Basic Farmland. (1998-12-24)
Implemented by: Implementation Measures of Tibet Autonomous Zone on the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China. (1992-06-25)
Implemented by: Official Reply concerning the approval of the Measures of Examination and Approval of Construction Land. (1999-10-22)
Implemented by: Land Administration Law implementing Regulations. (1999-10-22)
Implemented by: Implementation Measures of Gansu Province on the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China. (1999-09-02)
Implemented by: Regulation of Xinjiang Autonomous Zone of PRC on Land Supervision. (1997-12-11)
Implemented by: Implementation Measures of the Shanxi Province on the "Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China". (1999-09-26)
Implemented by: Regulation on Land Reclamation. (2011-03-05)
Implemented by: Measures for on-site inspection and verification of major land issues. (2009-06-12)
Implemented by: Administrative measures of Henan province for th use of rural residential land. (2011-01-05)
Implemented by: Measures for the Administration of Examination and Approval of the Use of Land for Construction (2010). (2010-11-30)
Implemented by: Measures of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for implementing the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China. (1999-07-30)
Implemented by: Measures for the Administration of Annual Plans on the Utilization of Land (1999). (1999-03-02)
Implemented by: Measures for the administration of annual plans on the utilization of land (2006). (2006-12-19)
Implemented by: Measures for the Administration of Overall Land Use Planing. (2017-05-08)
Implemented by: Provisions on the Economical and Intensive Use of Land. (2014-05-22)
Implemented by: Regulations for the implementation of the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China. (1991-01-04)
Implemented by: Regulations for the implementation of the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China (98). (1998-12-27)
Implemented by: Regulation on the Implementation of the Land Administration Law of the Peoples Republic of China (2014 Revision). (2014-07-29)
Implemented by: Administrative Regulations on land development of the Yili River Basin. (2006-09-29)
Implemented by: Regulations of the Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture on the implementation of urban and rural planning. (2013-03-30)
Implemented by: Land Administrative Measures of Nature Reserve Zone of the People's Republic of China. (1995-07-24)
Implemented by: Regulation on Land Requisition Compensation and Resettlement of Migrants for Large and Medium Water Conservation and Hydropower Construction Projects. (2006-07-07)
Implemented by: Regulation of Xinjiang on land supervision and inspectation. (1997-12-11)
Implemented by: Measures for Land and Resources Administrative Penalties. (2014-05-07)
Implemented by: Regulations of Hainan Special Economic Zone on forest land administration. (2014-05-30)
Implemented by: Regulations of Hubei province on the contracting and managing of rural Land. (2012-07-27)
