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State Council advances draft cultivated land law to legislature

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On Thursday, the State Council approved a draft Cultivated Land Protection and Quality Improvement Law for submission to the legislature.
Some context: The law is part of a series of efforts aimed at preventing China's limited stock of arable land from being diverted for non-agricultural purposes, w...