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	NOTICE OF THE GENERAL OFFICE OF THE STATE COUNCIL ON TEMPORARILY STOP BUILDING NEW GOLF COURSE

	(No. 1 [2004] of the General Office of the State Council promulgated on January 10, 2004)


SUBJECT : GOLF COURSE; STOP BUILDING
ISSUING DEPARTMENT : GENERAL OFFICE OF THE STATE COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
ISSUE DATE : 01/10/2004
IMPLEMENT DATE : 01/10/2004
LENGTH : 712 words
TEXT :

Since the reform and opening, golf courses have been developed rapidly in China, which played an active role in improving sport facilities and developing golf sport. However some serious problems have arisen in recent years. In some places, golf courses are excessively built, and a large amount of land is occupied. In some other places, peasants' collective land is requisitioned and occupied in violation of the legal provisions, and the cultivated land is discretionally occupied. All this has seriously damaged the benefits of the state and the peasants. In addition, in still some other places real estate has been developed disguisedly in the name of building golf courses. In order to reasonably utilize and protect the land resources, stop blind construction of golf courses, we are consented to by the State Council to give our notice as follows regarding the relevant issues:

I. New golf courses shall be temporarily stopped from being built. From the date of printing and distribution of the present Notice up to the time when the relevant new policies come out, no local people's government at any level and no institution under the State Council shall approve the construction of any new golf course project. Prior to this period, if any golf course project whose formalities for approval of planning, project initiation, land use and environmental impact assessment, etc. have not been gone through in accordance with the provisions, but the construction has been discretionally started, such construction must be stopped. The construction of any project that has not been started must not be started. As for any golf course project whose project proposal and feasibility study report have been approved in accordance with the provisions, if the formalities for approval of land use or starting construction have not been gone through, such formalities must be temporarily stopped from being handled; if the formalities for approval of planning, land use and starting construction for any project has been gone through, but the construction has not been started, such construction must be stopped.

II. Cleaning up the golf course projects that have been or are being built. The local people's governments at all levels should immediately clean up and inspect in an all-round way the golf course projects that have been or are being built within their respective jurisdictions. The emphases of the cleaning-up and inspection lie in: whether the formalities for approval of golf course project construction are complete, whether the project construction conforms to the overall planning on utilization of land and the urban overall planning, whether the land use conforms to laws, regulations and the relevant provisions in the "Notice of the Central Committee of CCCPC and the State Council on Further Strengthening Land Administration and Earnestly Protecting Cultivated Land" (No. 11 [1997] of the Central Committee of CCCPC).

III. Regulating the operation of the built golf courses. We should, on the basis of cleaning up, inspecting and verifying the golf courses, and in accordance with the relevant laws, regulations and policies of the state, regulate the golf courses that have been built and put into operation. The local people's governments at all levels shall take effective measures to strengthen the administration, strictly control the consumption of water resources in golf courses, urge and ensure the construction of subsidiary environmental protection facilities of golf course, so as to do a good job of environmental protection in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations.

IV. Strengthening the urging, inspection and guidance. The local people's governments at all levels should strengthen the cleaning-up and regulation of golf courses. Those not approved to build or, illegally requisition or occupy land should be punished in accordance with the law. The people's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government should submit the results of cleaning up and inspecting the golf courses and punishing the persons involved to the State Council by February 15, 2004. The Development and Reform Commission shall, jointly with the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Construction, the State Administration of Environmental Protection, the General Administration of Sport, the State Tourism Administration and other departments, lose no time to research and propose the measures for and opinions on regulating and leading the healthy development of golf sport and facilities construction.