GB/T 21010-2017Current land use classification (English PDF)
土地利用现状分类
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Issued by
SAMR; SAC
Level / Type
National · Recommended
Issue date
November 1, 2017
Implementation date
November 1, 2017
Scope
GB/T 21010-2017 is the English-translated version of 土地利用现状分类.
GB/T 21010-2017 sets out how land in China is classified by the way it is actually being used, and the codes that go with each class. It fixes the general rules of the classification, the coding method - two levels, each written with two Arabic numerals - and the full list of types, 12 primary classes and 73 secondary classes.
It defines coverage degree, canopy density and land use, and adds an appendix relating the classes to the three main categories of the Land Administration Law and a second one listing the classes that count as wetlands.
It is meant for land survey, planning, approval, supply, remediation, law enforcement, evaluation, statistics, registration and information management. It replaces GB/T 21010-2007, was issued on 1 November 2017 and has applied since 1 November 2017.
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Document preview — GB/T 21010-2017
National Standard of the People's Republic of China
- ICS
- 07.040
- Classification
- A 76
- Replacing
- GB/T 21010-2007
Issued by: State Administration for Market Regulation; Standardization Administration of the PRC
Contents
- Preface
- 1 Scope
- 2 Terms and definitions
- 3 General
- 4 classification and coding method
- 5 Land use classification and coding
- Appendix A (Normative) This standard classification of land use status and the "People's Republic of China Land Administration Law," "three major categories" Table
- Appendix B (informative) The standard can be classified as "wetlands" status of land use classification Type
Foreword
This standard was drafted in accordance with the rules given in GB/T 1.1-2009.
This standard replaces GB/T 21010-2007 "status of land use classification," compared with GB/T 21010-2007, in addition to editorial changes The main technical changes are as follows.
--- Range increased "approval, supply, remediation, law enforcement" and so on;
--- Delete the "normative references" chapter;
--- General Provisions added "ecological civilization" "guarantee does not mean no leakage, no composite use" and so on;
--- The number of secondary classes changed to 73, two classes instead of two Arabic numerals;
--- Perfected the "arable land" "woodland" "public management and public service land" "special land" "transport land" "water and water facilities Place of application "and other classifications;
--- Perfected the "irrigated land" "shrub land" "natural pasture" "other grassland" "commercial financial land" "Other commercial sites" "Industry Land "" mining land "" storage land "" urban residential land "" park and green space "" place of supervision place "" scenic spot facility Land "" Road land "" Rural road "" Airport land "" Harbor land "" River water "" Reservoir water "" Ditch "" Swamp Land "" free "" facility farmland "" ridge "and other secondary meaning;
--- The original name of "public facilities land" adjusted to "public facilities land";
--- The original "woodland" is subdivided into "arbor woodland" "bamboo forest" "mangrove land" and "forest swamp"; the original "wholesale and retail land" fine Is divided into "retail commercial land" and "wholesale market land"; the original "residential dining area" is subdivided into "dining land" and "hotel use Land "; the original" science and education land "is subdivided into" education land "and" research land "; the original" medical charity land "is subdivided into" medical and health Land "and" Land for Social Welfare "; the original" Entertainment Land "is subdivided into" Cultural Facilities Land "," Sports Land "and" Entertainment Land "; the original" railway land "is subdivided into" railway land "and" rail transit land "; the original" street land "is subdivided into" urban village road Road land "and" traffic service station land "; the original" bare land "is subdivided into" bare land "and" bare rock gravel land ";
--- Added "Rubber Park" "Shrub swamp" "Swamp grassland" "Yantian", respectively, from "other fields" "shrub land" "natural pasturage" "Mining land" in the separation;
--- Appendix A, the "reservoir water" from "construction land" to "agricultural land";
--- Add Appendix B "wetlands" classification table.
1 Scope
This standard specifies the general conditions of land use, classification and coding.
This standard applies to land survey, planning, approval, supply, renovation, law enforcement, evaluation, statistics, registration and information management. In making With this standard, but also according to need, based on the classification of land use types.
2 Terms and definitions
The following terms and definitions apply to this document.
2.1 Coverage degree; coverage rate
A certain area of the vertical projection of vegetation area as a percentage of the total area.
2.2 Canopy density; crown density
Canopy (the foliage part of the tree is called the canopy) The ratio of the vertical projected area to the area of the forest floor.
2.3 Land use; land utilization
Through certain activities, human beings use the attributes of land to satisfy their own needs.
3 General rules
3.1 The implementation of the national land and urban and rural unified management of land and resources, the division of land use types of science, a clear land use of all types of meanings, unified land Investigation, statistical classification criteria, rational planning, the use of land.
3.2 Maintaining the scientific, practical, open and inheritable classification of land use and meeting the formulation of plans for national economic and social development, macro Regulation and control, ecological civilization construction and land and resources management needs.
3.3 Based mainly on land use patterns, uses, operating characteristics and coverage characteristics and other factors, according to the main purposes of land use types Induction, division, guarantee does not mean not leak, no composite use, reflecting the basic status of land use, but not to delineate the scope of departmental management.
4 Classification and coding methods
4.1 Classification of land use status The classification system uses two levels of primary and secondary levels, which are divided into 12 primary classes and 73 secondary classes.
4.2 Current status of land use classification using digital coding, one or two are using two Arabic numerals, from left to right in turn represent one, Two.
5 Land use classification and coding
Land use classification and coding in Table 1.
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Editions of GB/T 21010
| Edition | Title | Revision | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB/T 21010-2017 | Current land use classification | current edition | Current |
| GB/T 21010-2007 | Current land use classification | previous edition | Superseded |
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