Jinchang Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources

The Jinchang Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources (also serving as the Jinchang Municipal Administration of Real Estate Registration) is a municipal government department at the county level.

The Bureau implements the policies and decisions of the Central Committee, Provincial Party Committee, and Municipal Party Committee concerning natural resources. In discharging its duties, it upholds and strengthens the Party's centralised and unified leadership over natural resources work. Its principal responsibilities are:

(1) Exercising the duties of the owner of natural resource assets such as land, minerals, forests, grasslands, wetlands, and water, which are collectively owned by the people, and exercising control over the use of all territorial space. Drafting local regulations and municipal government rules concerning natural resources, territorial space planning, and surveying and mapping, and supervising and inspecting their implementation.

(2) Overseeing natural resource surveys, monitoring and evaluation across the city. Implementing a unified and standardised system for natural resource surveys, monitoring and evaluation in accordance with established indicator frameworks and statistical standards. Conducting fundamental surveys, specialised investigations and monitoring of natural resources. Managing the supervision and release of survey, monitoring and evaluation outcomes. Providing guidance for natural resource surveys, monitoring and evaluation citywide.

(iii) Overseeing unified registration of natural resource rights across the city. Implementing national systems, standards, and norms for unified registration of various natural resources and immovable property rights, cadastral surveys, immovable property surveying, dispute resolution, and application of outcomes. Establishing and improving the city's foundational information management platform for natural resource and immovable property registration. Managing the collection, collation, sharing, and submission of natural resource and immovable property registration data. Guiding and supervising natural resource and immovable property rights registration citywide.

(iv) Oversee the paid use of natural resource assets across the city. Implement the national statistical system for state-owned natural resource assets, conduct accounting for such assets, compile the state-owned natural resource asset balance sheet, and formulate assessment criteria. Implement national policies on the allocation, transfer, leasing, valuation-based capital contribution, and land reserve of state-owned natural resource assets, ensuring their rational allocation. Manage the valuation of natural resource assets and collect relevant asset revenues in accordance with the law.

(v) Oversee the rational development and utilisation of natural resources across the city. Organise the formulation of natural resource development plans, implement standards for natural resource development and utilisation, establish a government-publicised natural resource pricing system, organise grading and valuation assessments for natural resources, conduct evaluations and assessments of natural resource utilisation, and guide conservation and intensive use. Oversee the regulation of the natural resource market. Organise research into policy measures concerning macro-control, regional coordination, and integrated urban-rural development within natural resource management.

(vi) Oversee the establishment and implementation of the city's spatial planning system. Advance the implementation of the main functional zones strategy and system; organise the formulation and supervision of territorial spatial plans and relevant specialised plans. Conduct suitability assessments for territorial spatial development; establish monitoring, evaluation, and early warning systems for spatial planning implementation. Organise the delineation of control lines including ecological protection red lines, permanently protected farmland, and urban development boundaries; construct resource-conserving and environmentally protective spatial layouts for production, living, and ecological zones. Implement the land use control system, enforce urban and rural planning policies, and oversee their implementation. Organise the formulation and implementation of annual utilisation plans for natural resources such as land. Oversee the conversion of land and other territorial space uses. Manage land expropriation and requisition.

(vii) Oversee the city-wide ecological restoration of territorial space. Lead the formulation and implementation of territorial space ecological restoration plans and major ecological restoration projects. Manage comprehensive territorial space remediation, land reclamation and rehabilitation, and mine geological environment restoration. Lead the establishment and implementation of ecological protection compensation mechanisms, formulate policies for rational utilisation of social capital in ecological restoration, and establish a project repository for territorial space ecological restoration.

(8) Responsible for organising the implementation of the most stringent farmland protection system across the city. Takes the lead in formulating and implementing farmland protection policies, and is responsible for safeguarding the quantity, quality, and ecological integrity of farmland. Organises the assessment of farmland protection responsibility targets and the special protection of permanently protected basic farmland. Refines the farmland occupation compensation and replacement system, and supervises the implementation of the farmland occupation compensation mechanism.

(IX) Responsible for the prevention and management of geological hazards across the city. Implement relevant requirements of the city's comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation plan; organise the formulation of geological hazard prevention and control plans and protection standards, and guide their implementation. Organise, guide, coordinate, and supervise geological hazard surveys, evaluations, and the census, detailed investigation, and screening of potential hazards. Guide the implementation of community-based monitoring and prevention, professional monitoring, and forecasting and early warning systems; guide the implementation of geological hazard engineering management. Provide technical support for geological hazard emergency rescue operations.

(10) Overseeing the management of mineral resources across the city. Responsible for managing mineral resource reserves and reviewing/approving applications for the overburdening of mineral resources. Managing mining rights and supervising geological exploration activities conducted by geological exploration units within the city's jurisdiction. Collaborating with relevant departments to regulate and manage specific protected mineral species and advantageous mineral resources. Supervising and guiding the rational utilisation and protection of mineral resources. Overseeing and managing geological issues such as excessive groundwater extraction and resulting ground subsidence. Oversees the supervision and management of palaeontological fossils.

(11) Oversees the management of surveying, mapping, and geographic information across the city. Manages fundamental surveying and mapping activities and the surveying industry. Administers surveying qualifications and credit management, supervising geographic information security and market order citywide. Manages public geographic information services. Oversees the protection of survey markers.

(12) Advances scientific and technological development in the natural resources sector citywide. Formulates and implements plans for technological innovation and talent cultivation in natural resources. Organise and oversee the implementation of national and provincial technical standards, procedures, and specifications. Implement key scientific and technological projects and innovation capacity building, advancing natural resources informatisation and public services for information resources.

(13) Upon authorisation, conduct supervisory inspections of county (district) and township (town) governments regarding the implementation of major policies, decisions, and deployment of natural resources and territorial spatial planning, as well as compliance with laws and regulations. Investigate and handle cases of violations concerning natural resources development and utilisation, territorial spatial planning, and surveying and mapping across the city. Provide guidance on relevant administrative law enforcement work to county (district) and township (town) authorities.

Office Hours: 8:30-12:00, 14:30-16:00 (Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays)

Office Address: No. 16 Yan'an West Road, Jinchuan District, Jinchang City

Office Telephone: 0935-8395888