National Land Day: Cherish Every Inch of Land and Promote High-Quality Development
Land conservation focuses on the arable land red line, soil remediation, and intensive and economical use, firmly safeguarding food security See the Fuzhou River治理 in Dalian and nationwide progress to learn about the new achievements in systematic land governance
On the occasion of the 36th National Land Day, the article focuses on cultivated land protection, soil remediation, and the economical and intensive use of land, emphasizing the foundational role of land resources in food security, ecological security, and highquality development.
Using the governance of the Fuzhou River in Dalian, Liaoning as an example, the report introduces how local authorities have improved river water quality by investigating pollution sources and enhancing measures such as livestock and poultry manure collection and treatment, as well as upgrading and expanding sewage treatment capacity, reflecting the interlinked relationship between soil and water environment governance and land protection.
The article also reviews the progress China has made in recent years in areas such as protecting the red line for cultivated land, improving salinealkali land, protecting black soil, remediating contaminated sites, redeveloping inefficiently used land, and carrying out comprehensive land consolidation across entire regions, explaining that current land governance is shifting from singledimensional protection to a systematic approach that gives equal importance to quantity, quality, and ecology.