Adjustment of the National General Land Use Plan Outline (2006-2020)
On the morning of December 8, Jiang Daming, Minister of Land and Resources, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, and National Land Chief Inspector, presided over the 24th ministerial office meeting, which deliberated and in principle approved the "Adjustment Plan for the Outline of the National General Land Use Plan (2006-2020)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Adjustment Plan").
The meeting noted that since its approval and implementation, the "Outline of the National General Land Use Plan (2006-2020)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline") has played an important role in holding the red line for farmland protection, promoting economical and intensive land use, coordinating regional and urban-rural land use, and protecting and improving the ecological environment, and has promoted sustained and healthy economic and social development as well as social harmony and stability. At the same time, many new situations and new changes have emerged in China's economic and social development, and land use and management also face many new tasks and new requirements. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, in order to better implement the new requirements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council for land and resources work, actively adapt to the objective needs of rapid economic and social development, and implement the relevant spirit of the Central Committee on strengthening ecological civilization construction, it is necessary to adjust and improve the "Outline" in a timely manner.
⟦NL> The meeting noted that once approved by the State Council, the "Adjustment Plan" will become a programmatic document guiding land use and management across the country, and will be an important basis for implementing land macro-control and land use control and for planning urban and rural construction. The "Adjustment Plan" makes clear that the main purpose of this adjustment of the "Outline" is to implement the spirit of the "Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 13th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Party, to focus on the national economic and social development strategy and related plans, and to optimize production, living, and ecological space on the basis of resource and environmental carrying capacity. The adjustment of the "Outline" must, in accordance with the requirements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, adhere to the strictest farmland protection system and the strictest economical land use system, follow the basic principles of "overall stability with partial fine-tuning; full protection where protection is due with equal emphasis on quantity and quality; economical and intensive use with optimized structure; overall coordination with emphasis on key points; strengthened coordination with full linkage," and ensure that the amount of actual farmland in China remains stable and its quality does not decline, that the level of land use is markedly improved, and that coordinated and healthy economic and social development is promoted.
The meeting also studied work including the linkage between urban and rural construction land increases and decreases and the standards for reviewing land use in development zones. Before the ministerial office meeting, Jiang Daming presided over the 41st Party Leadership Group meeting of the Ministry, at which the spirit of relevant central documents was studied and conveyed.
Ministry leaders Kurexi, Wang Min, Wang Shiyuan, Zhao Fengtong, Zhang Delin, Zhong Ziran, Yan Zhiyao, and Wang Guanghua attended the meeting. Peng Qiming, Chief Engineer of the Ministry, and heads of relevant departments, bureaus, and directly affiliated public institutions of the Ministry attended the meeting as non-voting participants.