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Program of Action for Sustainable Development in China in the Early21st Century (7)

Posted on: Monday, 28 July 2003, 06:00 CDT

Program of Action for Sustainable Development in China in the Early 21st Century (7)

Rational use of land. Implement the basic state policy of treasuring and rationally utilizing land and effectively protecting farmland, practicing the strictest land-management system in the world. Strengthen land resources survey, evaluation and monitoring practices, and formulate a scientific overall plan for land use and strictly enforce it. Reinforce farmland protection and construction, prevent farmland degradation, and ensure food security of the country. Strengthen forest protection and forest resources buildup to ensure the ecological security of the country. Rationally readjust land use structure and layout to improve the efficiency of land use. Strengthen the management of land use for construction, control the scale of land use for such purposes, encourage rural residents to settle in towns and industrial enterprises to relocate to industrial parks, and guarantee land supply needed for economic development. Actively undertake land leveling and reclamation and adequately develop land reserve resources. Improve land asset management, deepening land-use restructuring by aggressively introducing a market- oriented approach to land-use rights, improving the land pricing system and land tax system, and promoting efficient land use. Improve the land property system and safeguard the contractual rights of farmers. Reform the land expropriation system. Deepen research and application of land science and technology; expand land remote sensing surveys; and improve land- use management information systems. Strengthen land legislation, improve laws and regulations and law enforcement.

Energy efficiency. Develop natural gas, hydraulic power, renewable energy, new energy and other forms of clean energy; develop clean-fuel buses and electric-powered buses; utilize overseas oil and gas resources; and reduce the share of coal in energy consumption. Greatly develop clean coal and thermal-power central heating technology; strengthen energy conservation; improve efficiency of energy utilization, and reduce environmental pollution. Wherever appropriate, develop methane, fuel-efficient stoves, solar energy and wind energy; improve energy consumption in rural areas. Implement the west-east gas pipeline project and the transmission of power from the west to the east to improve the energy structure.

Forest resources. Tighten protection, management and oversight of forest resources and improve law enforcement; stop unlawful felling and enhance public awareness of forest protection. Clarify the obligations, rights and interests in forest protection; deepen reform of the forestry sector by adjusting and improve outdated forest policies and reducing taxes. Apply high technology to transform traditional industries and phase out outdated production modes; accelerate the development of fast-growing, high-yield timber production bases and industries. Step up ecological conservation and implement on a full scale key projects of protecting natural forests.

Grassland resources. Improve institutional building for grassland protection and strengthen grassland management and enforcement. Clarify the obligations, rights and interests in grassland protection; apply high technology to transform the way grassland resources are utilized from quantity-based to quality- and efficiency-based growth. Implement a series of projects to protect natural grasslands such as artificial grass-planting, grass- planting by airborne seed-sowing, imposing a moratorium on grazing, grassland improvement, and pest control. Double efforts to improve desertified, alkalized and degraded grasslands.

Mineral resources. Improve legislation on mineral resources protection; scientifically draft and strictly implement plans for mineral resources development; strengthen macro-regulation of mineral resources development; and promote rational distribution of mineral resources exploration and development. Further improve work in mineral resources surveying, evaluation and exploration, and enhance security of mineral resources. Implement a protective development policy for strategic mineral resources. Improve the system of utilizing mineral resources at a cost. Promote structural improvement and optimization for mineral resources utilization toward greater efficiency through advances in science and technology and scientific management. Make full use of domestic and international capital, resources and markets and build large mineral resources bases and overseas mineral resources bases. Strengthen ecological conservation in mineral-rich areas and gradually build environmentally sound mines.

Marine resources. Develop plans for rationally utilizing and protecting marine resources. Strictly implement plans for allocation of marine functions; strengthen marine management; tighten examination and approval of marine resources utilization; and fully introduce the practice of using marine resources at a cost. Build up capacities for maritime monitoring and enforcement management. Conduct a nationwide study on the state of the country 's maritime ecology. Develop high technology to develop deep-sea and oceanic resources.

Climate resources. Further enhance public awareness of climate resources. Improve legislation on climate resources utilization and protection. Develop plans for the reasonable utilization and protection of climate resources; revise and update climate resources plans in a timely fashion. Adopt advanced computer information processing technologies and remote-sensing technology and improve climate resources monitoring and evaluation. Build pilot bases for reasonably utilizing climate resources, in particular focusing on the monitoring, planning and piloting of agricultural climate resources, wind energy and solar energy. ( more)

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