PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON LAND UTILIZATION ENGINEERING IN CHINA

Science and technolgy on land utilization engineering in China has been made a relatively great progress since the founding of New China especially in the period of sixth five-years' plan. Survey on land resources and overall planning on land utilization has been carried out. More stratifications of development and utilization in land resoures have been developed. Comprehensive control engineering has been reinf orced for land improvement. Undeground measures and mechanization of construction in land improvement engineering have been developed somewhat. Systems engineering and computers have been used for land utilization engineering. Earlier stage feasibi lity studies for land development projects are begun to be paid more attention. Land planning for rural townships are progressed rapidly. In order to realize the "two turns" in Chinese agriculture by the year of 2000, we should further strengthen studies on the theory and policy of land utilization engineering and the techniques of land development, utilization, improvement and protection engineering.