1. Because land resources are limited in Beijing, golf operators need to pay huge sums of money to buy up land.
2. Yau said buying up the land could be costly, adding there were more flexible alternatives such as private or public partnerships or management agreements.
3. In order to catch up with land transport, updating equipment and putting on speed is a top priority.
4. China's ongoing macroeconomic adjustment tightened land supply and credit, postponed many developments and increased consumers'worries declining property supplies will push prices up.
5. Taiwan investors have poured up to US $ 100 billion into the mainland, lured by low land and labour costs and a common language and culture.
6. Overdue payments owed to farmers as compensation for expropriated land were basically cleared up.
7. According to the latest survey of 51 major cities in China, last year comprehensive prices of urban land went up over 6 per cent.
8. Some of them have resorted to every conceivable means to drive up land prices.
9. But the land resources authorities have said it is up to the property developers to publicize the costs to avoid creating confusion among consumers.
10. Landfills would take up a lot of arable land and would contaminate the soil as well as groundwater.