The rub of the green

Five cases were exposed on the website of the National Development and Reform Commission this year.

1. A number of employees of a company called Laohewan in Beijing were removed from their posts in March, after the company refused to stop illegal construction of a golf course. An inspection found that the course had been built on almost 60 hectares of farmland the company did not own.

2. Agile, a company in Tengchong, Yunnan province, was punished in May after it illegally converted an ecological resort town into a golf course occupying 53 hectares of local land.