1. Policy Profile

With the purpose to encourage the development of the hi-tech industry, modern manufacturing and other projects invested under encouragement by the municipal government and optimize allocation of land resources, first-grade land development is implemented for the industrial land in Z-Park and development areas constructed with approval by the state and municipal government, adopting the open tendering, to control and reduce the development cost and land price; fulfilling multiple land transfer forms, to obtain the land-using right in methods including land transfer, lease, allocation, holding stock share for industrial land; authorizing the administration authority, to simplify the procedure for providing industrial land; abating land transfer fees, urban infrastructure construction expenses and partial administrative institutional fees.

2. Applicable Scope

This provision is applicable to the land used by the modern manufacturing corporations, hi-tech corporations and other industrial projects invested under encouragement by the municipal government (hereinafter called the industrial land in development parks), in the development parks (including Z-Park, similarly hereinafter) constructed with approval by the state and municipal government.

3. Favorable Contents

(1) The first-grade land development is implemented for the industrial land in development parks to optimize allocation of land resources.

①. The first-class land development of Industrial land in development parks shall be subject to the united organization by the district and county governments, administrative institutions of development parks and municipal land reserve center, to provide cultivated land. The first-class land development adopts the open tendering method, to control and reduce development cost and land price.

②. The industrial land in development parks shall conform to general planning of land utilization in the city, district or county, to transact land use procedure legally.

③. The industrial project shall be generally arranged in the industrial land in development parks constructed with approval by the state and municipal government, with strict control on providing land for industrial projects outside the industrial land in development parks.

(2) Multiple methods are adopted for industrial land in development parks to fit land use requirements for different industrial projects.

①. The land transfer term is negotiable by and between two parities within the maximum term (50 years) prescribed by the authority, with the minimum term no less than 10 years.

②. Lease of the state-owned land can be adopted, for which the rent shall be paid annually, at the rent level confirmed by the relative reverted land price (or transfer expenses).

③. Above-mentioned methods can be selected to dispose the land resource by those corporations meeting the conditions of authorized operation, holding stock share and buying a share for the state-owned land use right, approved by the municipal government.

④. For the collective land of farmers involved in the industrial land in development parks, the land ownership cannot be changed under the precondition of guaranteeing the legal interests of farms and legal resolution by the farmer collective economic organization, allowing farmer collective economic organization to rent in certain term. The method of collective land holding share can be tried out for the land for industrial projects with stable income, under the condition of voluntariness of farmer collective economic organization and guaranteeing farmers’ interests. Agreement shall be concluded legally by the farmer collective economic organization in renting land or holding a share for collective land.

⑤ Allocation method can be adopted for the land for industrial projects meeting provisions of Detailed Rules of Beijing Municipality on Implementing the ‘List of Allocated Land’ by the Ministry of Land and Resources.

⑥ The land use right can be obtained by the foreign-funded corporations meeting provision by paying the land use fee of foreign-funded corporation.

(3) The administration authority can be authorized, to simplify the procedure for providing industrial land

①. For the industrial land in development parks needing transacting the procedure of changing use of farmland, the administrative institution of development parks shall submit application to the municipal administrative bureau of land resources and housing, submit to the approval by the municipal government, transacting the procedure of changing the user or expropriation of farmland. For the industrial land needing transacting the procedure of changing use of farmland, the administrative institution of development parks of district, county government or with approval authority shall transact according to laws.

②. The guiding price of the industrial land in development parks shall be balanced and confirmed in advance by the municipal administrative bureau of land resources and housing jointly with the financial, programming, planning and building department, etc.

③. Transfer procedure of the industrial land in development parks of 10 exurban districts and counties shall be transacted by land resources and housing administrative department of counties and districts with the authority from the municipal administrative bureau of land resources and housing.

④ State-owned land transfer policies shall be instituted by district, county government or development park administrative institution with approval authority, by combing with the actualities of the district, county and development park. On the basis of the guiding price and land price policy, the land resources and housing administrative department of districts and counties shall confirm the price of state-owned land and conclude the Contract of Transferring the Possession of State-owned Land Use, submitting the contract to the municipal administrative bureau of land resources and housing for recording, subject to its supervision and administration.

(4) Favorable policies for transferring land for industrial use in development parks

①. For the land use for the cognized modern manufacturing corporations, hi-tech corporation and other projects invested under encouragement by the municipal government, which obtain land in the method of transfer directly in development parks constructed with approval by the state and municipal government, only 75% of fees for transferring the land use right should be paid, with the payment of halved infrastructure construction expenses. For investment of additional land, those corporations will be benefited from exemption of land transferring fees and payment of halved infrastructure construction expenses. Provided the land use property is changed or not used for projects of transferring hi-tech results, all expenses exempted or reduced shall be compensated fully.

②. Land transferring fees can be paid off, or paid on installment within 3-5 years.

③.Those corporations, with difficulty in paying off the land price within the term prescribed in the transferring contract, can apply for grace period of not more than one year, with payment for the use of state funds of 2‰ monthly.

④. For the land for industrial projects meeting the land transferring fee returning provision, the land use right transferring fees can be returned in advance on the paid land price sum and returning proportion, on the basis of the required fund for the project.

⑤. Meeting the condition for transacting the procedure of transferring the land use right, and applying for transacting related procedures in advance willingly, the transferee, who promises to pay the transferring fees according to the standard instituted in the fourth-class joint estimation of land price, can pay the transferring fees firstly and conclude the land transferring contract.

(5) Reduce the partial tax for the industrial land in the development park

① Claiming 70% land administrative expenses and house removal administrative fees.

② Halving the payment of house property registration expenses, land registration expense, industrial land transferring contract tax, new fields fund and flood control costs.

③ Encouraging additional investment of the industrial land projected in development parks, and claiming a half of the contract tax for the added land price for land transferring with additional investment.

④. Halving the part of the paid use fees for the government expropriated for the newly-added construction land. The industries approved by the government can be exempted from the newly-added land use fees, the part for the central government out of which shall be borne by the city and county or district government respectively by half.

⑤. The district and county government can compensate the farmland occupied by the industrial land in development parks independently, to achieve balance between occupation and compensation in its district or county, exempting the expense for reclaiming farmland; those districts or counties, which is unable to compensate farmland independently, shall compensate farmland in other land according to related provisions.

⑥ The temporary land use fees shall be exempted for the industrial project, which need to use the state-owned land for the requirement of building construction and geological survey.

(6) Housing system reform policy for industrial project investors or employees of the industrial project

①. Housing accumulation funds deposited by employees of the industrial project corporation shall execute the deposit upper limit prescribed; according to provisions, the conditional corporation, getting the approval of application, can apply for depositing the housing accumulation funds on the basis of the actual salary and prescribed percentage.

②. The conditional industrial project corporations are encouraged to transform the housing distribution to currencies, providing housing subsidies for employees who have no house or have substandard house, to improve their capacity in purchasing house, with the housing subsidies to be itemized as the cost according to related provisions.

③. To employees of the industrial project corporation, increasing the strength of consignment loan of individual housing accumulation funds, bringing the role of housing loan guarantee center into play, and simplifying the guarantee method of individual loans; initiatively promote the policy discount business of industrial housing guarantee loan and individual credit evaluation system, canceling the purchasing evaluation for economically affordable housing, reducing intermediate expenses, and simplifying the loan procedure.

(7) Reform of the land use administrative approval system shall be actively enhanced, to reduce working chains, improve transaction efficiency and optimize service environment.

4. Contact Unit

Beijing Municipal Bureau of State Land and Resources

Tel: 64409601