The Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and
National Forestry and Grassland Administration issued joint guidance to apply
differentiated, positive‑list land management for facility agricultural land to
boost farmers’ incomes, agricultural modernization and rural revitalization. The
notice encourages siting facility farmland on unused areas—Gobi, desert,
saline‑alkali land—plus existing construction land and idle land, and permits
occupation of arable land outside permanent basic farmland. It removes scale
limits on production facilities, imposes land‑share and size caps for different
types of ancillary facilities, and encourages facility farmland to be used
primarily for agricultural production.
