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The state implements special protection for cultivated land, and the occupation of cultivated land must be subject to strict legal procedures.
The Land Management Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that:
Article 4 The State practices a land use control system.
The state formulates the overall land use planning, defines the land use, and divides the land into agricultural land, construction land and unused land. Strictly restrict the conversion of agricultural land into construction land, control the total amount of construction land, and implement special protection for cultivated land.
Article 45 The requisition of the following land shall be approved by the State Council:
(1) Basic farmland;
(2) More than 35 hectares of cultivated land other than basic farmland;
(3) More than 70 hectares of other land.
Expropriation of land beyond the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be approved by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government and reported to the State Council for the record.
Where agricultural land is requisitioned, the approval procedures for the conversion of agricultural land shall be handled in advance in accordance with the provisions of Article 44 of this Law. Among them, the conversion of agricultural land is approved by the State Council, and the land acquisition approval procedures are handled at the same time, and the land acquisition approval is no longer handled separately; If the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government approve the conversion of agricultural land within the scope of land acquisition approval, they shall go through the formalities of land acquisition approval at the same time, and no longer go through the formalities of land acquisition approval separately. Beyond the approval authority of land acquisition, land acquisition approval shall be handled separately in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph of this article.