Reclaimed land helps food supply
By Wang Qian | China Daily | Updated: 2011-03-29 07:53
Huge tracts of damaged ground set to be used for agriculture
BEIJING - The country will step up its efforts to reclaim useful land and use it for agriculture in a bid to guarantee the supply of food.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Land and Resources, almost 9 million hectares of land had been destroyed due to human activities and natural disasters by 2009.
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