General Objective and Tasks of Land and Resources Planning in China during the New Period

It is a long-term and arduous task to enhance land and resources planning work in order to effectively protect and rationally use the land and resources. By Year 2010, general objective for land and resources planning of China: in order to increase the guarantee capacity of land and resources for the sustainable development of economy and society, to establish a scientific and perfect planning system of land and resources; to fully and effectively play the controlling, regulating and coordinating roles of planning in investigation, evaluation, exploration, development, use and protection of the land and resources; to establish the leading position of planning in the administration system of land and resources; to realize scientific, open and systematic planning management to make land and resources planning to a new level. The major tasks are to improve and perfect a scientific system of land and resources planning work, to enhance working-out, examination and approval, and implementation of land and resources planning work, to emphasize investigate, evaluate, dynamic monitoring, comprehensive statistics, basic research and the establishment of the management information system.