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Land Resources

Cultivated Land

According to the 2003 China Land and Resources Communique, released by the Ministry of Land and Resources, China's cultivated land stood at 123.39 million hectares in 2003, a decrease of 2.01 percent from the previous year. The per-capita cultivated land shrank from 0.098 hectares in 2002 to 0.095 hectares. The cultivated land is mainly distributed in Northeast China Plain, North China Plain, and the Middle-Lower Yangtze Plain, and in the Pearl River Delta and Sichuan Basin.
         
The fertile land in Northeast China Plain is chiefly planted with wheat, corn, sorghum, soybean, jute and ambary hemp, and sugar beet. Farm crops planted in North China Plain include wheat, corn, millet, sorghum, cotton and peanut. The Middle-Lower Yangtze Plain produces rice, orange and rapeseed, while Sichuan Basin abounds in rice, rapeseed, sugarcane, orange, grapefruit, tea, etc.