China"s fundamental farmland is under protection and there is a saying of "1.8 billion Mu red line". However, recently there suddenly emerges a new interpretation over the precarious “1.8 billion Mu red line” policy, saying “the statistics of the land departments were wrong and there is “no such problem” as land use in China. ANBOUND researchers think that China’s data are always like an ocean of myths, and the highly opaque statistics system has made the real implications of those data difficult to be understood and trusted by outsiders. Those activities, such as increasing farmland via filling up oceans or leveling down mountains, might increase land amount, but whether they are suitable for planting, is totally another matter.
