Data under analysis in this report are all from the surveys conducted during 2004 and 2005 by our project team.

In the mid- and late 1990s, a batch of extremely large central enterprises (groups) began restructuring in order to get listed abroad.

Along with the gradual improvement of China's socialist market economy, relevant reforms have been made in the fields of the investment, construction and operation of urban environmental facilities.

China is in the stage of speedy industrialization. The large scale exploitation of mining areas has occupied and wasted a great many of land resources, which has made the serious situation of arable land protection become more serious.