Three Ministries Issue Guidelines to Optimize Natural Resource Allocation for Regulated Tourism Dev…

Key points

• The Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and National Forestry and Grassland Administration jointly issued guidelines forming a policy system covering planning, land use, supply, implementation, and supervision.
• The guidelines clarify the link between tourism special plans and territorial spatial planning, incorporating 15th Five-Year Plan tourism space needs into the unified natural resource and territorial spatial map.
• They combine incremental supply with stock revitalization, allowing independent urban construction land outside urban development boundaries and supporting redevelopment of inefficient tourism land.
• Differentiated use controls support camping, hiking, sightseeing, study tours, and forest wellness activities outside core protected areas within ecological protection red lines.
• They explore managing multiple plots as one parcel and bundled natural resource asset supply to promote integrated planning, construction, and operation.
• Departmental coordination and approval services move earlier to project initiation and decision stages, and using tourism projects to change land use for villas, private estates, real estate, or golf courses is prohibited.