1. A multinational doing business in a country has to respect and follow the law of the land.
2. China reintroduced the collection of a land appreciation tax on Thursday as the country's property boom shows no signs of abating.
3. The current law stipulates that the country owns the land, while individuals only have the right to use it for a stipulated period of time.
4. The latest tax move will cut away a big part of the real estate profits and will surely help improve the country's land system.
5. Legal experts have called for a revision of the country's laws on land seizure, in a bid to ease tensions over forced demolitions.
6. Mechanization is not a realistic substitute for much human labor since the land is simply too hilly and mountainous in much of the country.
7. A revised regulation on idle land released by the Ministry of Land and Resources is meant to curb the country's soaring land hoarding.
8. Yet till now our country has never sent a single soldier abroad to occupy an inch of foreign land.
9. China launched a nationwide campaign on irregular and excessive requisition of land last year for industrial development projects to protect the country's land resources.
10. Cities are being built in a markedly decentralized fashion, partly also because of the country's large land area.