When describing China's cultivated land and mineral resources, people often use many huge numbers. Cultivated land, forests, grasslands, deserts and tidelands are distributed widely across China.

China's Chang'e-4 probe landed in the the oldest ... Next, the lander will release a rover that will explore the surrounding area. One of its tasks is to study the composition of rocks and dirt ...

Its river basin is around 1.8 million sq km – almost a fifth of China's land area. As China’s economy has developed, pollution in the Yangtze and its lakes has multiplied – particularly from ...

China expanded its greening efforts in 2024, adding 7.67 million hectares through tree planting and land restoration, advancing afforestation and high-quality development, according to a bulletin ...

China is "using the sun to fight the sand" in ... as "a type of land degradation in which an already relatively dry land area becomes increasingly arid, degrading productive soil and losing ...

Local governments in mainland China are speeding up their purchases of idle land from developers, but more cities need to take part to expand the scale of the initiative and rescue the property ...

Rime-covered rock pillars stretch up endlessly to the sky in the land of "Avatar" at Tianzishan Scenic Area of Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan Province, Mar. 6, 2025. Zhangjiajie National Forest ...