a)
Data come from the "Communique of Main Data on Land
Use Survey" issued by the Ministry of Land and
Resources, National Bureau of
Statistics, and National
Agricultural Census Office of China. The cultivated areas is the data at Oct.
31, 1996. According to the estimation by
National Bureau of
Statistics, area of cultivated land (total area) in 2001 is 127 082 000
hectares, of which, regularly cultivated land is 105 826 000
hectares, and temporarily
cultivated land is 21 256 000 hectares.