Provisions on the functional allocation, internal structure and staffing of the Ministry of Natural Resources

Article 1 These Provisions are formulated in accordance with the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Deepening the Reform of Party and State Institutions, the Plan for Deepening the Reform of Party and State Institutions and the Plan for Institutional Reform of the State Council approved by the First Session of the 13th National People’s Congress.

Article 2 The Ministry of Natural Resources is a department of the State Council, with ministerial status, and the brand of State Oceanic Administration is reserved for foreign countries.

Article 3 The Ministry of Natural Resources shall implement the principles, policies and decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee on natural resources work, and uphold and strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party on natural resources work in the course of performing its duties. The main responsibilities are:

(a) to perform the duties of the owners of natural resource assets such as land, minerals, forests, grasslands, wetlands, water and oceans owned by the whole people and the duties of controlling the spatial use of all land. To draft laws and regulations on natural resources and land space planning, surveying and mapping, polar regions and deep seas, formulate departmental rules and supervise and inspect the implementation.

(two) responsible for the investigation, monitoring and evaluation of natural resources. Formulate the index system and statistical standard of natural resources investigation, monitoring and evaluation, and establish a unified and standardized natural resources investigation, monitoring and evaluation system. Implement basic investigation, special investigation and monitoring of natural resources. Responsible for the supervision and management of natural resources investigation, monitoring and evaluation results and information release. To guide the investigation, monitoring and evaluation of local natural resources.

(three) responsible for the unified registration of natural resources. Formulate systems, standards and norms for unified registration of all kinds of natural resources and real estate, property registration survey, real estate surveying and mapping, dispute mediation and application of results. Establish and improve the national basic platform for natural resources and real estate registration information management. Responsible for the collection, collation, sharing and exchange management of natural resources and real estate registration materials. Guide and supervise the registration of natural resources and real estate rights throughout the country.

(four) responsible for the paid use of natural resources assets. Establish a statistical system of national natural resource assets, and be responsible for the accounting of national natural resource assets. Prepare a balance sheet of natural resources owned by the whole people and draw up assessment standards. Formulate policies for the allocation, transfer, lease, pricing and land reserve of all natural resources assets owned by the whole people, and rationally allocate all natural resources assets owned by the whole people. Responsible for the evaluation and management of the value of natural resources assets, and collect the income of related assets according to law.

(five) responsible for the rational development and utilization of natural resources. Organize the formulation of natural resources development plans and strategies, formulate standards for the development and utilization of natural resources and organize their implementation, establish a government-publicized natural resources price system, organize the grading and price evaluation of natural resources, carry out evaluation and assessment of natural resources utilization, and guide economical and intensive utilization. Responsible for natural resources market supervision. Organize research on policies and measures related to macro-control, regional coordination and urban-rural integration in natural resource management.

(six) responsible for the establishment of spatial planning system and supervise the implementation. Promote the strategy and system of main functional areas, organize the preparation and supervision of the implementation of national land space planning and related special planning. Carry out the suitability evaluation of land space development, and establish the monitoring, evaluation and early warning system for the implementation of land space planning. Organize the delineation of the red line of ecological protection, permanent basic farmland, urban development boundaries and other control lines, and build a production, living and ecological spatial layout that saves resources and protects the environment. Establish and improve the control system of land and space use, study and formulate urban and rural planning policies and supervise their implementation. Organize the formulation and implementation of annual utilization plans for natural resources such as land and sea. Responsible for the conversion of land, sea areas, islands and other land and space uses. Responsible for the management of land expropriation and requisition.

(seven) responsible for coordinating the ecological restoration of land space. Take the lead in organizing the preparation of national spatial ecological restoration planning and implementing major ecological restoration projects. Responsible for the comprehensive improvement of land space, land consolidation and reclamation, mine geological environment restoration and management, marine ecology, sea coastline and island restoration. Take the lead in establishing and implementing the compensation system for ecological protection, formulate policies and measures for rational use of social funds for ecological restoration, and put forward major alternative projects.

(eight) responsible for organizing the implementation of the most stringent farmland protection system. Take the lead in formulating and implementing cultivated land protection policies, and be responsible for the quantity, quality and ecological protection of cultivated land. Organize the implementation of farmland protection responsibility target assessment and permanent basic farmland special protection. Improve the balance system of cultivated land occupation and compensation, and supervise the implementation of the compensation system for occupied cultivated land.

(nine) responsible for the management of geological exploration industry and the national geological work. Prepare geological exploration plans and supervise and inspect the implementation. Manage central geological exploration projects. Organize the implementation of major national geological and mineral exploration projects. Responsible for the prevention and treatment of geological disasters, supervise and manage geological problems such as excessive exploitation of groundwater and land subsidence caused by it. Responsible for the supervision and management of paleontological fossils.

(ten) responsible for the implementation of comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation planning requirements, organize the preparation of geological disaster prevention planning and protection standards and guide the implementation. Organize, guide, coordinate and supervise the investigation and evaluation of geological disasters and the general survey, detailed investigation and investigation of hidden dangers. Guide the development of mass monitoring and prevention, professional monitoring, forecasting and early warning, and guide the engineering management of geological disasters. To undertake technical support for emergency rescue of geological disasters.

(eleven) responsible for the management of mineral resources. Responsible for the management of mineral resources reserves and the examination and approval of mineral resources. Responsible for mining right management. In conjunction with relevant departments, undertake the regulation and related management of specific minerals and superior minerals for protective mining. Supervise and guide the rational utilization and protection of mineral resources.

(twelve) responsible for supervising the implementation of marine strategic planning and the development of marine economy. To study and put forward major strategic suggestions for building a maritime power. Organize the formulation of marine development, deep sea, polar regions and other strategies and supervise their implementation. Work out plans and policies for marine economic development and comprehensive protection and utilization of coastal zones in conjunction with relevant departments and supervise their implementation. Responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of marine economic operation.

(thirteen) responsible for the supervision and management of marine development, utilization and protection. Responsible for the management of sea area use and island protection and utilization. Make plans for the protection and utilization of sea islands and supervise their implementation. Responsible for the management of toponyms of uninhabited islands, sea areas and seabed, formulate measures for the protection and management of special-purpose islands such as territorial sea base points and supervise their implementation. Responsible for marine observation and forecast, early warning, monitoring and disaster reduction, and participate in emergency response to major marine disasters.

(fourteen) responsible for surveying and mapping geographic information management. Responsible for basic surveying and mapping and surveying and mapping industry management. Responsible for surveying and mapping qualification and credit management, supervision and management of national geographic information security and market order. Responsible for the management of geographic information public service. Responsible for the protection of survey marks.

(fifteen) to promote the development of science and technology in the field of natural resources. Formulate and implement strategies, plans and plans for scientific and technological innovation and personnel training in the field of natural resources. Organize the formulation of technical standards, regulations and norms and supervise their implementation. Organize the implementation of major scientific and technological projects and innovation capacity building, and promote the informationization of natural resources and the public service of information materials.

(sixteen) to carry out international cooperation in natural resources. Organize foreign exchanges and cooperation in the field of natural resources, and organize the implementation of relevant international conventions, treaties and agreements. Cooperate with the work of safeguarding national maritime rights and interests and participate in relevant negotiations and consultations. Responsible for polar, high seas and international seabed related affairs.

(seventeen) according to the authorization of the central government, to supervise the implementation of the major principles and policies, decision-making arrangements and the implementation of laws and regulations of the local government on the planning of natural resources and land space of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. Investigate and deal with major illegal cases of natural resources development and utilization, land spatial planning and surveying and mapping. To guide relevant local administrative law enforcement work.

(eighteen) to manage the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau.

(nineteen) the management of China Geological Survey.

(twenty) to complete other tasks assigned by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council.

(21) functional transformation. The Ministry of Natural Resources should implement the requirements of the central authorities on uniformly exercising the duties of the owner of all natural resources owned by the whole people, uniformly exercising the duties of controlling the use of all land and space and ecological protection and restoration, strengthen the top-level design, give play to the control role of land and space planning, and provide scientific guidance for the protection and rational development and utilization of natural resources. Further strengthen the protection and rational development and utilization of natural resources, establish and improve the working mechanism of combining source protection with whole process restoration and management, and realize overall protection, system restoration and comprehensive management. Innovate the institutional measures that give priority to both incentives and constraints, and promote the economical and intensive utilization of natural resources. Further streamline and decentralize relevant administrative examination and approval matters, strengthen supervision, give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, give better play to the role of the government, strengthen the binding role of natural resource management rules, standards and systems, and promote the convenience and efficiency of natural resource confirmation registration and evaluation.

Article 4 The Ministry of Natural Resources shall have the following internal organs:

(1) General Office. Responsible for the daily operation of the organ. Undertake information, security, letters and visits, news propaganda, government affairs publicity, and supervise the government affairs hall of the management department. To undertake the financial and asset management of institutions.

(2) comprehensive department. To be responsible for organizing the formulation of natural resources development strategies, medium and long-term plans and annual plans. Carry out investigation and study on major issues, be responsible for drafting important documents of the Ministry, and coordinate the work related to comprehensive reform in the field of natural resources. To undertake the in-depth development of integration of defense and civilian technologies in the field of natural resources. To undertake the centralized management of comprehensive statistics and professional statistics within the Ministry.

(3) department of laws and regulations. To undertake the drafting of relevant laws and regulations and rules. To review and clean up the legality of relevant normative documents. Organize publicity and education on the rule of law. To undertake the relevant work of administrative reconsideration and administrative litigation.

(4) Natural Resources Investigation and Monitoring Department. Draw up the index system and statistical standards for natural resources investigation, monitoring and evaluation, and establish a regular natural resources investigation, monitoring and evaluation system. Regularly organize the implementation of national natural resources basic survey, change survey, dynamic monitoring and analysis and evaluation. Carry out special investigation, monitoring and evaluation of water, forest, grassland, wetland resources and geographical conditions. To undertake the supervision of the collection, management, maintenance, release, sharing and utilization of the results of natural resources investigation, monitoring and evaluation.

(5) Natural Resources Confirmation Registration Bureau. To formulate systems, standards and norms for unified registration of all kinds of natural resources and real estate, title investigation, real estate surveying and mapping, dispute mediation and application of results. To undertake the guidance and supervision of the national registration of natural resources and real estate rights. Establish and improve the national basic platform for natural resources and real estate registration information management, and manage registration materials. Responsible for the key state-owned forest areas identified by the State Council, the sea islands approved by the State Council, and the registration and certification of real estate ownership by the central and state organs.

(6) Department of Natural Resources Owners’ Rights and Interests. To formulate policies for the management of natural resources assets owned by the whole people, establish a statistical system for natural resources assets owned by the whole people, and undertake the evaluation and accounting of natural resources assets. Prepare the balance sheet of natural resources owned by the whole people and formulate relevant assessment standards. To formulate policies on the allocation, transfer, lease, pricing and land reserve of natural resources assets owned by the whole people. To undertake the disposal of state-owned land assets of restructured enterprises submitted to the State Council for approval.

(7) Department of Natural Resources Development and Utilization. To formulate the system of paid use of natural resources assets and supervise its implementation, establish trading rules and trading platforms in the natural resources market, and organize the regulation of the natural resources market. Responsible for the supervision, management and dynamic monitoring of natural resources market, and establish the credit system of natural resources market. Establish a government publicity system for natural resources prices, and organize the grading price evaluation of natural resources. Formulate standards for the development and utilization of natural resources, carry out evaluation and assessment, and guide the economical and intensive utilization.

(8) Land and Space Planning Bureau. Formulate policies related to national land spatial planning, undertake the work of establishing spatial planning system and supervise its implementation. Organize the preparation of national land and space planning and related special planning and supervise the implementation. To undertake the examination and approval of local land spatial planning submitted to the State Council for examination and approval, and to guide and examine major national special plans involving the development and utilization of land space. Carry out the suitability evaluation of land space development, and establish the monitoring, evaluation and early warning system for the implementation of land space planning.

(9) Department of Land and Space Use Control. To formulate norms and technical standards for the control system of land and space use. Put forward the annual land and marine utilization plan and organize its implementation. Organize the formulation of policies for the conversion of land and space use such as cultivated land, woodland, grassland, wetland, sea area and island, and guide the pre-examination of land for construction projects. To undertake the examination and approval of all kinds of land use conversion submitted to the State Council for examination and approval. To formulate control policies for urban and rural planning and management and supervise their implementation.

(10) Department of Land, Space and Ecological Restoration. To undertake the research work on the policy of ecological restoration of land space and draw up the plan of ecological restoration of land space. To undertake the comprehensive improvement of national land space, land consolidation and reclamation, mine geological environment restoration and management, marine ecology, sea area coastal zone and island restoration. Undertake the work related to ecological protection compensation. Guide the ecological restoration of local land space.

(eleven) cultivated land protection and supervision department. To formulate and implement farmland protection policies, organize the implementation of farmland protection responsibility target assessment and special protection of permanent basic farmland, and be responsible for the supervision and management of permanent basic farmland delineation, occupation and replenishment. To undertake the balanced management of cultivated land occupation and compensation. To undertake the management of land expropriation. Be responsible for the connection between cultivated land protection policies and land resources protection policies such as woodland, grassland and wetland.

(12) Geological Exploration Management Department. Manage the geological exploration industry and the national geological work, prepare the geological exploration plan and supervise and inspect the implementation. Manage central-level geological exploration projects and organize the implementation of major national geological and mineral exploration projects. Undertake the prevention and treatment of geological disasters, and supervise and manage geological problems such as over-exploitation of groundwater and land subsidence caused by it.

(thirteen) mining rights management department. Formulate mining right management policies and organize their implementation, and manage the transfer, approval and registration of mining rights of important energy resources such as oil and gas and metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources. Statistical analysis and guidance of the national exploration and mining rights approval and registration, mediation of major ownership disputes. To undertake the total mining control and related management of specific minerals and superior minerals for protective mining.

(fourteen) mineral resources protection and supervision department. To formulate strategies, policies and plans for mineral resources and organize their implementation, and supervise and guide the rational utilization and protection of mineral resources. Undertake the review, filing, registration, statistics and information release of mineral resources reserves, and cover the examination and approval management of mineral resources and the strategic reserve of mineral areas. Implement dynamic management of mine reserves and establish a safety monitoring and early warning system for mineral resources. Supervise the collection, storage and utilization of geological data, and supervise and manage paleontological fossils.

(15) Division of Marine Strategic Planning and Economics. To formulate major strategies for building maritime powers such as marine development, deep sea and polar regions and supervise their implementation. To formulate plans for marine economic development, comprehensive protection and utilization of coastal zones, protection and utilization of sea islands and development of marine integration of defense and civilian technologies, and supervise their implementation. Undertake to promote the development of emerging marine industries such as seawater desalination and comprehensive utilization and marine renewable energy. Carry out comprehensive monitoring, statistical accounting, investigation and evaluation and information release of marine economic operation.

(16) Division of Marine Island Management. Formulate policies and technical specifications for the use of sea areas and the protection and utilization of islands, and supervise and manage the development and utilization of sea areas and islands. Organize the monitoring and evaluation of islands in the sea area, and manage the topographic names of uninhabited islands, sea areas and seabed and the laying of submarine cables and pipelines. To undertake the examination and approval of the use of sea and island submitted to the State Council for examination and approval. Organize the formulation of policies for the protection and management of special-purpose islands such as territorial sea base points and supervise their implementation.

(seventeen) marine early warning and monitoring department. To formulate policies and systems for marine observation and forecast and marine scientific investigation and supervise their implementation. To carry out marine ecological early warning and monitoring, disaster prevention, risk assessment and hidden danger investigation and management, and issue warnings and bulletins. Construction and management of the national global ocean stereoscopic observation network, and organization of marine scientific investigation and survey. Participate in emergency response to major marine disasters.

(18) Department of Land Surveying and Mapping. To formulate national basic surveying and mapping plans and supervise their implementation. Organize and implement major projects such as national basic surveying and mapping and global geographic information resources construction. Establish and manage national surveying and mapping benchmarks and surveying and mapping systems. Supervise and manage civil surveying and mapping, aerial photography and satellite remote sensing. Formulate management policies for surveying and mapping industry, supervise and manage surveying and mapping activities and quality, manage surveying and mapping qualifications, and approve foreign organizations and individuals to come to China for surveying and mapping.

(nineteen) Geographic Information Management Department. To formulate the national geographic information security policy and supervise its implementation. Responsible for the management of geographic information achievements and the protection of survey marks, and audit important national geographic information data. Responsible for map management, review maps open to the public, supervise Internet map services, carry out publicity and education on national territory awareness, and work out boundary standard samples. Provide geographic information emergency support, guide and supervise geographic information public services.

(20) Office of the Chief Inspector of National Natural Resources. Improve the national natural resources supervision system, and formulate relevant policies and working rules for natural resources supervision. Guide, supervise and inspect the work assigned to the supervision bureau, and coordinate the supervision work of major and cross-regional supervision. According to the authorization, undertake the supervision and inspection of the implementation of laws and regulations such as natural resources and land spatial planning.

(21) law enforcement bureau. To formulate draft regulations, rules and normative documents for the investigation and handling of illegal cases of natural resources and guide their implementation. Investigate and deal with major cases of illegal land and space planning and natural resources, guide and coordinate the investigation and handling of illegal cases nationwide, and coordinate and solve the investigation and handling of cross-regional illegal cases. Guide the construction of local natural resources law enforcement agencies and teams, and organize professional training for personnel of natural resources law enforcement system.

(22) Science and Technology Development Department. To formulate strategies, plans and plans for scientific and technological development in the field of natural resources. Formulate relevant technical standards, regulations and norms, and organize the implementation of major scientific and technological projects, projects and innovation capacity building. Undertake scientific and technological achievements and information management, carry out the construction of high-tech systems such as satellite remote sensing, and strengthen the capacity building of marine science and technology.

(XXIII) Department of International Cooperation (Department of Maritime Rights and Interests). To formulate strategies and plans for international cooperation in the field of natural resources and organize their implementation. Undertake bilateral and multilateral exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries and the implementation of international conventions, treaties and agreements, and guide the implementation of foreign-related and foreign aid projects. Responsible for the management of foreign affairs, carry out the maintenance of relevant maritime rights and interests, and participate in negotiations and consultations on resource exploration and development disputes, island disputes, and maritime delimitation. Guide polar, high seas and international seabed related affairs. To undertake the examination and approval of foreign-related administrative licenses in the field of natural resources.

(twenty-four) finance and capital utilization department. To undertake the collection and management of special income from natural resources and the management of special funds and funds. To formulate regulations on financial and asset management, be responsible for the supervision of financial and state-owned assets of organs and subordinate units, and be responsible for departmental budgets and final accounts, government procurement, centralized treasury payment and internal audit. Manage capital construction, major special investment and major equipment. To undertake the structural optimization and monitoring of financial and social funds, formulate policies and measures for rational utilization of social funds, and propose major alternative projects.

(25) personnel department. To undertake personnel management, organization establishment, labor wages, education and training of organs, agencies and directly affiliated units, and guide the construction of natural resources talents.

Party committees of organs. Responsible for the party-mass work of organs and units directly under Beijing.

Bureau of retired cadres. Responsible for the work of retired cadres.

Article 5 The Ministry of Natural Resources has 691 administrative personnel (including 10 personnel of the two committees, 2 personnel of aid dispatch and 50 personnel of retired cadres). There are 1 minister (concurrently the chief inspector of national natural resources), 4 deputy ministers (one of whom is concurrently the deputy inspector of national natural resources), 1 full-time deputy inspector of national natural resources (deputy minister level), and 109 department-level leadership positions (including 2 chief planners, 2 chief engineers, 1 full-time deputy secretary of the party committee of the government and 3 leadership positions of the bureau of retired cadres).

Article 6 The Ministry of Natural Resources shall set up the following agencies:

(1) According to the authorization of the central authorities, the Ministry of Natural Resources has dispatched national natural resources inspectors to Beijing Bureau, Shenyang Bureau, Shanghai Bureau, Nanjing Bureau, Jinan Bureau, Guangzhou Bureau, Wuhan Bureau, Chengdu Bureau and Xi ‘an Bureau to undertake the natural resources supervision work in the areas under its jurisdiction. There are 336 administrative staff in 9 supervision bureaus, and 64 directors at the department or bureau level (9 supervision bureaus are equipped with 1 positive and 2 deputy, and the corresponding 37 inspected units are equipped with 1 inspector).

(2) Shaanxi Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Bureau, Heilongjiang Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Bureau, Sichuan Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Bureau and Hainan Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Bureau implement a management system with the Ministry of Natural Resources as the main leader, and the specific organizational matters shall be stipulated separately.

(3) The Ministry of Natural Resources has set up agencies in the North Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea respectively, and the specific responsibilities and organizational matters shall be stipulated separately.

Article 7 The establishment, responsibilities and establishment of institutions affiliated to the Ministry of Natural Resources shall be stipulated separately.

Article 8 The Office of the Central Organization Establishment Committee shall be responsible for the interpretation of these Provisions, and its adjustment shall be handled by the Office of the Central Organization Establishment Committee according to the prescribed procedures.

Article 9 These Provisions shall come into force as of August 1, 2018.