Land disputes highlighted in China
www.chinaview.cn 2003-12-26 23:08:33
BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese farmers' land contract and management rights have been generally protected, but land disputes still exist.
Uyunqimg, vice-chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, made this remark when she addressed the sixth session of the NPC Standing Committee here on Friday.
She quoted statistics from the Supreme People's Court saying that from 2000 to 2002 Chinese courts accepted 137,000 land dispute cases, and in the first seven months of 2003, the country's courts handled 34,000 similar cases.
China has drawn up a general outline for land development, which stipulates that the country's farmland area should reach 1.6billion mu (about 107 million hectares). In July this year, the State Council released a notice on rectifying the overuse of land by industrial parks, and dispatched 10 inspection teams nationwideto supervise the land use rectification.
She said that so far China has 5,524 industrial parks, which waste farmland and put farmers out of work. In addition, some local governments have refused to compensate farmers for farmland requisition.
China promulgated the Land Contract Law in March 2003, in an effort to better protect the farmers' right to the use of land. Enditem
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