Golf, considered to be a luxury sport played by China's new rich, is becoming more and more popular throughout the country.
And along with the boom in the business has come a large number of golf courses built in violation of the law.
One country club brought into question lies adjacent to the Stone Forest world heritage site in the Shilin Yi autonomous county, in Southwest China's Yunnan province. China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Saturday that the club has been accused of illegally using a large area of land for the construction of golf courses.
To protect the country's shrinking land resources, the central government imposed a ban in 2004 on the construction of new golf courses. Illegal courses, such as the one in Shilin, have become common ever since.
The number of golf courses in China has more than tripled, going from 170 in 2004 to nearly 600 now, according to statistics from the golf education and research center at Beijing Forestry University.
In Beijing alone, there are more than 170 golf courses and practice courts in operation. At least 70 of them are suspected to be illegally occupying arable lands, according to an earlier report by Southern Weekly.
The report said the construction of golf courses has long been blamed for an excessive occupation of arable land; a standard 18-hole course normally takes up more than 607 hectares. Maintaining the courses is also known to require the use of large amounts of water. Experts said a course containing from 40 to 50 hectares needs at least 3,000 cubic meters of water every day.
Industry insiders said that when most of the new golf courses were built, they were called country clubs, sports parks or greenbelts, and continued to run golf businesses even though they weren't licensed to do so.
In response to the increasing demand for places to play golf in, the Ministry of Land and Resources has authorized Hainan province as the only province allowed to build golf courses, helping it pursue its goal of becoming an island resort.
Li Jianqin, director of the law enforcement and supervision department of the Ministry of Land and Resources, warned last year that the existence of plans calling for the construction of golf courses in Hainan does not indicate that other provinces can ignore the ban.
The senior land administrator also pledged previously this year to take tough measures to curb the use of land for illegal purposes, especially for the construction of luxurious villas and golf courses. About 11,000 hectares of arable land were used illegally in 2010.
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