China has 128.61 million hectares of arable land, well above the country's farmland red line of 1.8 billion mu (about 120 million hectares), according to a bulletin released by the Ministry of Natural Resources on Friday.
The ministry released a 2024 natural resources bulletin in China, detailing the country's overall natural resources.
The national land survey conducted in 2023 reveals that China has 19.61 million hectares of orchards, 283.70 million hectares of forests, 263.22 million hectares of grasslands, and 23.52 million hectares of wetlands.
The country also discovered 173 types of mineral resources by the end of 2023, the bulletin said.
Five key forest zones, including the national park for Serbian tigers and leopards and the Genhe River, have completed natural resource rights registration.
In 2024, China issued 71.53 million property ownership certificates nationwide, marking a 3.2-percent year-on-year increase.
China had 12,646 exploration rights licenses over 2.66 million square kilometers of mines, and 30,391 mining rights licenses over 351,800 square kilometers by the end of 2024.
In addition, the country has yielded significant results in the new round of mineral exploration.
Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021 -2025), China has put in 400 billion yuan (about 55.27 billion U.S. dollars) for mineral exploration, leading to major breakthroughs in copper, aluminum, iron, lithium, zirconium, and rare earth.
Minerals such as tungsten, molybdenum, and graphite have also seen substantial growth, further consolidating China's resource advantages.
China has 128.61 million hectares of arable land with improved ecosystem: survey
Protests against federal immigration enforcement are spreading across the United States, with the latest demonstration unfolding directly in front of the White House.
Early Saturday, more than a hundred demonstrators gathered there, demanding changes to the Trump administration's immigration policies and accountability for recent shootings involving federal agents.
Immigrant rights and civil rights groups said this weekend's rallies mark a coordinated national response. Demonstrations are planned or already underway in major cities including Philadelphia, as well as across states such as North Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Washington, D.C., where organizers are calling for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be removed from local communities.
The nationwide protests follow a deadly week in which three people were shot by federal agents in two days.
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a 37-year-old woman, Renee Good, was killed during an enforcement operation by the ICE. A day later in Portland, Oregon, a man and a woman were wounded during a separate federal operation.
In the aftermath, Minnesota state officials accused the Trump administration of blocking their investigation by denying access to key evidence and prematurely drawing conclusions before a full review could be completed.
On Friday, Donald Trump defended the Department of Homeland Security's actions, sharply criticizing Minnesota leaders and calling them corrupt.
Local leaders have pushed back. During a Saturday news conference, the mayor of Minneapolis described ICE agents' actions as reckless.
Officials in both Minneapolis and Portland continue urging demonstrators to remain peaceful as protests intensify nationwide.
According to a 50501 Movement statement issued Friday, at least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025.
Nationwide protests erupt in US after ICE shootings
