Land and resources planning was carried forward in an all-round way. The critical strategic research on the 11th Five-Year Plan of Land and Resources was completed and the Program of the 11th Five-Year Plan of Land and Resources was formulated. Antecedent work of the amendment to the national general plan of land use was conducted in a down-to-earth manner and that of the amendment to the provincial general plans was arranged comprehensively. Pilot amendment to land-use plans at various levels was constantly promoted. The implementation of the 10th Five-Year Plan for mineral resources exploration and for land and resources survey was evaluated. The 11th Five-Year Plan for Land and Resources Survey and the Program of Mineral Resources Exploration for Rejuvenating Old Industrial Bases in Northeast China(Draft) were worked out, and the Program for Exploration of Backup Mineral Resources for China’s Resource-deficient Mines was implemented. The planning of land in Tianjinand Shenzhen was essentially completed on a trial basis, that in Liaoningand Xinjiang was pushed forward in perfect order, that in Guangdongwas formally started, and that of the whole country was studied intensively at its early stage. The third-term international training course of land planning was run successfully.

The MLR actively improved and participated in the macro-regulation; implemented the principle of supplying land according to different needs, i.e. ensuring adequate supply of land for important projects but reducing the supply for less important ones; strictly examined and approved the supply of construction land that was newly added; and guaranteed the supply of land essential to the State’s key projects. The State Council approved 851 projects of construction land, of which 460 were key ones in bad need of land. The MLR, in conjunction with the Ministry of Construction, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the People’s Bank of China, the State Taxation Administration and the China Banking Regulatory Commission formulated the “Opinions on Improving the Work of Stabilizing Housing Prices”. Of the total of land supplied throughout 2005, the stock land accounted for 56% and the newly added land constituted 44%. A relatively balanced allocation of land among all trades and industries was achieved and the structure of land supply for real estate development was further optimized. In 2005, 43.3% of the supplied land was for industrial facilities, mines and storehouses, 30.6% for real estates and 26.1% for other purposes.

Achievements of land market rectification were further consolidated and enhanced. The State Council’s General Office disseminated the Notice about Opinions on Prompting State-level Economic Technological Development Zones to Further Raise Their Development Levels formulated jointly by the Ministry of Commerce, the MLR and the Ministry of Construction, with the purpose of further intensifying the management of land use in State-level economic technological development zones. The MLR issued the Urgent Notice about Rigorously Banning the Illegal Action of “Replacing Expropriation with Renting” in Land Use; carefully defined the exact limits of economic technological development zones; completed the examination and verification of land-use plans of the zones; cut 10 such zones and reduced 5,200 km2 of land on the basis of the clear-up and rectification conducted in 2004. The Ministry preliminarily established a warning and predicting system of land use for State-level economic technological development zones and accomplished the monitoring and analysis of land use in 160 such zones all over the country. During the 2005 nationwide investigation of illegal land-use cases, 80,427 cases were put on file for inquiry, 79,763 cases were settled, 6,992.87 hectares of land were withdrawn, and 2.176 billion yuan（～US$272 million）was confiscated.

The MLR actively safeguarded the legal rights and interests of the people. It issued the Notice on the Formulation of Uniform Annual Output Value Standards for Land Expropriation and on the Comprehensive Pricing of Land in Areas Where Land Is Requisitioned; and improved the standards for compensation of land expropriation. In the process of examining the construction land to be submitted to the State Council for approval, the MLR maintained a stringent land-supply standard and increased the compensation fees of 230 million yuan（～US$28.8 million）for farmers who had  their land expropriated. Together with the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and the State Auditing Administration, the MLR made the correction of the error of infringing upon farmers’ interests in land collection and expropriation. It strengthened the administrative review of land and resources issues, with emphasis on administrative supervision and relief by different authorities at various levels. The “rejection by one vote” principle was exercised in handling the land-use issues raised by people in their letters or on their visits to higher authorities, and 10% of the construction land applications failed to pass the examination. In 2005, 24,700 cases of land right dispute were mediated and 88.21% of them were successfully handled and resolved. The number of cases of visiting higher authorities for help and intervention, induced by State-owned land right disputes, were reduced by over 50% as compared with the corresponding period of 2004.

The order of mineral resources exploration and development was rectified and regularized in an all-round way. The State Council’s Notice of Fully Rectifying and Regularizing Mineral Resources Development Order was implemented. The MLR and the National Development and Reform Commission, together with the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, the State Environmental Protection Administration and the State Administration of Work Safety, established and organized the Inter-ministerial Joint Conference to direct the nationwide rectification of mineral resources development order and strengthen the joint enforcement of law. In conjunction with the National Development and Reform Commission and other administrative departments, the MLR delivered the Notice of Fully Launching the Rectification and Regularization of Mineral Resources Development Order and earnestly carried out the “Three Checks” work. It standardized, according to law, the industrial norms of geological exploration, extensively pushed forward the qualification registration of geological exploration enterprises and issued the Notice on Some Issues of Regularizing the Rights of Exploration and Mining Licenses. The MLR, together with the National Development and Reform commission, dispatched the Notice of Nationwide Special Inspection of the Recovery of Coal Resources and made such an inspection in 27 coal-producing provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. It improved and rectified the oil exploration and mining order and participated in the improvement of the public order in China’s oil-producing areas. In 2005, 17,767 cases of illegal mineral exploration and mining were put on file for investigation, 17,121 cases were settled, 8 exploration licenses and 249 mining licenses were revoked, and 213 million yuan（～US$26.6 million）was confiscated.

A system of exercising administration in accordance with the law was taking shape in land and resources management. The modern administration procedure with power restriction as its core was constantly improved; a new work system with high efficiency and with people’s benefits as its basis was fully established; the lawful decision-making mechanism with the public participation as the guarantee for its operation was further improved; a market allocation of resources based on fairness and justice was carried out completely; a breakthrough advance was achieved in the functional transformation with administrative innovation as its goal; an administrative “relief” system aiming at safeguarding people’s rights and interests was being formed; the fundamental work of running administration according to law, driven by reform and innovation, was intensified; and the mechanism of running administration according to law, characterized by coordination and cooperation, was relatively mature.