Three Ministries Issue Guidance to Optimize Natural Resource Allocation for Regulated Tourism Growth

China's Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and National Forestry and Grassland Administration jointly issued guidance to optimize natural resource allocation and promote regulated, orderly tourism development. The guidance introduces incremental policies covering spatial planning, land-use control, land supply models, revitalization of inefficient land, and service supervision. It calls for incorporating the spatial needs of 15th Five-Year Plan tourism development into the national territorial spatial planning 'one map', allows certain scattered tourism public facilities to be sited as independent urban construction land outside urban development boundaries, per…