By: Wu Guoxiu
Date: April 20th 2016
Source: CCTV.com
China's urbanization level has reached 56.1 percent, that's according to the first official urbanization report book compiled by the National Development and Reform Commission. The country also plans for more small and medium sized cities…
By: Yi Ming and Lü Bingbing
Date: May 3rd 2016
Source: Women of China
Over 94 percent of rural villages or communities in east China's Shandong Province have included women's names on rural land rights certificates, to safeguard their legal rights and interests, according to a Shandong Women's…
Date: 7 July 2016
Source: Today
Fraught land policy based on collective ownership puts rural life at a crossroads
BEIJING — Among communist China’s holy pilgrimage sites, Xiaogang Village stands out. The tiny place is a living shrine to villagers who defied the party to dismantle disastrous…
By: Erika Villanueva-Miranda
Date: July 31st 2016
Source: Yibada
China rapid urbanization is now blamed for the country's most devastating flood in history.
The recent calamity that brought China to its knees with a hefty $44.7 billion damage cost is partly caused by the country's "ruthless"…
By: Hu Jiye
Date: October 23rd 2016
Source: Global Times
A guideline on improving legal protection for property rights was recently passed by China's Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms. The guideline reflects the further development of China's Constitution, in which it…
By: Elias Glenn and Kevin Yao
Date: November 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
China has relaxed rules to allow farmers to transfer their land rights to help promote more efficient, large-scale farms, amid an exodus of farm workers to the cities.
The authorities on Sunday recommended…
By: NT
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: The Navhind Times
Beijing: China has initiated a new set of land reforms changing the 30-year-old system to permit transfer of land rights to individuals or conglomerates, a politically sensitive move as the Communist country embarked on urban expansion…
By: Owen Guo
Date: November 15th 2016
Source: New York Times
BEIJING — The Chinese authorities said on Tuesday that they had executed a farmer convicted of killing a village official after the demolition of the farmer’s home, despite months of public outcry in sympathy with the farmer.
The…
Ministry tells urban owners that they won’t have to pay more after their land rights expire, but analysts say the issue must be clarified in a law
China’s land ministry has assured the country’s urban homeowners that they won’t have to pay extra money for their properties when their underlying…
By: Women Voice, Rong Chen
Date: January 5th 2017
Source: Women of China
Two high-ranking officials from China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) attended a press briefing on January 3 to explain the nation's latest policies on the reform of collective rural property rights.
Han Changfu, minister of…
By: Xu Shanshan
Date: January 5th 2017
Source: ECNS.cn
Due to rapid urban area expansion, some 300,000 sq. km of particularly fertile cropland will be lost by 2030.
Xinjiang, on China's border with Kazakhstan, has become a frontier as the ancient Silk Road is reinvigorated. The revival has…