The urban part of Lanzhou has mainly flourished on the southern bank of the river, where no more land reserve can be used for real estate development.
"The city can not turn to its outlying farming areas for land development, as the central government has made strict orders to safeguard arable land reserve only for farming purposes in order to ensure adequate grain supply," said Li.
In efforts to help Lanzhou and other cities with similar problems to seek development, the central authorities have designated the first group of 11 cities to pilot a comprehensive waste land exploration program. This is aimed to strike a balance between guaranteeing land for urbanization development and the protection of arable land.
Among them, there are the revolutionary base of Yan'an in Shaanxi Province and Lishui, a hilly city in eastern Zhejiang Province.
Under the program, the Ministry of Land Resources has allowed local authorities to transform waste land for urbanization.
It has also stipulated that the newly reclaimed urban part for each of the cities can not exceed 10 square km in the next five years.
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