Govt urged to get tough on land grab

CPPCC members on Saturday urged tighter land acquisition controls to secure arable land supply and cool the nation's sizzling property market.

"Land management legislation stipulates that government can expropriate collectively owned land when it's 'in the public interest', but what that means is open to interpretation," CPPCC member Liang Jiyang said on Saturday's session of the 11th National Committee of the CPPCC.

Liang is a researcher with the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.