China gears up for 2nd land survey

时间：2007-05-04 01:38:47

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BEIJING, May 1 -- China's cabinet, the State Council, has mobilized provincial1 and municipal governments to prepare for the second national land survey before 2010, covering 2,800 counties in 331 cities of 31 provinces, autonomous2 regions and municipalities and record the ownership of every piece of land in use. Xinhua learned on Tuesday from the Ministry3 of Land and Resources.

 

The last national land survey began in 1984 and took half a million geographical4 surveyors 11 years at a cost of more than one billion yuan (about 129 million U.S. dollars).

 

Under the ministry's Land Management and Development Guideline for 2006 and 2010, the second survey will be carried out in line with a uniform standard set by the central government.

 

Accuracy and integrity should be the aims of local geographical surveyors as the government intended to establish a land use database allowing real-time updating by land and resources management authorities, the guideline says.

 

China's arable5 land stood at 130.03 million hectares when the first national land survey was completed in 1996.

 

The figure had shrunk by nearly six percent to 121.8 million hectares by October last year, reducing the per capita arable land area to 1.39 mu or 0.093 hectares, the ministry estimated from rough calculations based on registered land transfers.

 

As China's economy had maintained a double-digit growth, the government hoped to make full use of the land supply leverage6 to curb7 investment in fixed8 assets.

 
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1 provincial Nt8ye     
adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人
参考例句：
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
2 autonomous DPyyv     
adj.自治的；独立的
参考例句：
  • They proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.他们自豪地宣布成为新自治省的一部分。
  • This is a matter that comes within the jurisdiction of the autonomous region.这件事是属于自治区权限以内的事务。
3 ministry kD5x2     
n.(政府的)部；牧师
参考例句：
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
4 geographical Cgjxb     
adj.地理的；地区(性)的
参考例句：
  • The current survey will have a wider geographical spread.当前的调查将在更广泛的地域范围內进行。
  • These birds have a wide geographical distribution.这些鸟的地理分布很广。
5 arable vNuyi     
adj.可耕的，适合种植的
参考例句：
  • The terrain changed quickly from arable land to desert.那个地带很快就从耕地变成了沙漠。
  • Do you know how much arable land has been desolated?你知道什么每年有多少土地荒漠化吗？
6 leverage 03gyC     
n.力量，影响；杠杆作用，杠杆的力量
参考例句：
  • We'll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.我们不得不借助杠杆之力来移动这块巨石。
  • He failed in the project because he could gain no leverage. 因为他没有影响力，他的计划失败了。
7 curb LmRyy     
n.场外证券市场，场外交易；vt.制止，抑制
参考例句：
  • I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
  • You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
8 fixed JsKzzj     
adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的
参考例句：
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

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