Regulations of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Desert Prevention and Transformation. | Land Portal

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May 2008
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LEX-FAOC146638
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These Regulations provide for the prevention of land desertification, the transformation of desertified land and the protection of the safety of the environment.The Law consists of 6 Chapters divided into 39 articles: General provisions (I); Planning on desert prevention and transformation (II); Prevention of land desertification (III); Transformation of desertified land (IV); Legal responsibilities (V); Supplementary provisions (VI).The regional forestry authority shall work out the planning of desert prevention and transformation of the whole country. The planning shall take into account the natural conditions such as geological location of the desertified land, land types, vegetation conditions, climate and water resource conditions, land desertification degrees, etc. Desert prevention and land transformation may be conducted by owners' land use right of state-owned lands and contractors of rural collective-owned lands.

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Quan Gao (LEGN)

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