Today, the Ministry of Natural Resources issued the "2024 Natural Resource Statistical Bulletin", announcing the overall situation of my country's natural resources in 2024.

There are 128.6088 million hectares of arable land in the country

The "Communiqué" shows that according to the results of the national land change survey in 2023, there are 128.6088 million hectares of arable land, 19.6109 million hectares of arable land, 283.6957 million hectares of forest land, 263.2157 million hectares of grassland, 23.5198 million hectares of wetland, 36.1037 million hectares of urban and villages, industrial and mining land, 10.4291 million hectares of transportation land, and 36.2648 million hectares of water and water conservancy facilities.

Last year, 71.5279 million real estate rights certificates were issued nationwide

In terms of natural resource rights confirmation and registration, the "Gumor" shows that the Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park, which directly exercises the ownership of natural resource assets owned by the central government, and five national key forest areas such as Genhe, completed natural resource rights confirmation and registration, and various places carried out natural resource rights confirmation and registration in key areas such as national parks.

In 2024, 71.5279 million real estate certificates were issued nationwide, an increase of 3.2% year-on-year.

Newly discovered 100 million tons of oil fields and 4 100 billion cubic meters of gas fields

The Bulletin shows that in 2024, 112.101 billion yuan of national geological exploration investment, 150 new mineral sites were discovered, including 103 large and medium-sized ones; 14,000 square kilometers of regional geological surveys of key mineralization zones were completed throughout the year; 100 million tons of oil fields and 4 100 billion cubic meters of gas fields were newly discovered, and super-large uranium mines were discovered in Jingchuan, Gansu.

The new round of strategic action for mineral exploration breakthrough has achieved fruitful results

In addition, the new round of strategic action for mineral exploration has achieved fruitful results, with a total investment of 400 billion yuan in mineral exploration funds since the 14th Five-Year Plan.

In 2024, the strategic mineral exploration blocks were provided to hit a new high in the past decade, promoting major breakthroughs in resources such as conventional oil and gas, uranium ore, and unconventional oil and gas;

At the same time, major breakthroughs in minerals such as copper, aluminum, iron, lithium, zirconium, hafnium, helium, rare earths and other minerals have achieved significant growth;

The resources of my country's advantageous minerals such as tungsten, molybdenum, antimony, fluorite, and graphite have achieved significant growth, and the resource advantages have been further consolidated.

(CCTV reporter Yang Xiao and Tan Zhenhua)