Better supervision is necessary to safeguard land, says an article in Yanzhao Metropolis News. The following is an excerpt:

The Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Supervision publicized the results of their joint inspections, citing 10 cases of major violations in land acquisition.

One of the most widely reported cases occurred in Kaiping county, Guangdong Province, where leaders of the local government were stripped of their Party and government posts for illegally approving about 2,000 hectares of farmland for industrial use.