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Beijing (CNS)-- China will exert stricter controls to protect high quality farmland, the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) said Thursday.

Rich stretches of farmland will be under permanent protection, and applications to release land for construction projects will undergo rigorous examination before approvals are granted or denied, stressed Yan Gang, vice head of the Department of Farmland Protection at MLR.

Yan added that to implement the strictest farmland protection policy, the country set a "red line" that guarantees its arable land never shrinks to less than 1.8 billion mu (120 million hectares). Meanwhile land management will be improved by intensifying the monitoring of soil and land conditions.