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Article: Golf courses devouring land illegally in China

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Golf courses devouring land illegally in China

by Wei Wu

BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Golf course developers are illicitly and greedily snatching land across China for what local governments euphemistically call "image projects".

Statistics published in People's Daily indicate that there are 176 golf courses in 26 provincial regions, but only one has been approved by the central government.

The number, seen as conservative by the newspaper, does not take into account those courses still under construction or plans for which are under scrutiny by local governments.

According to figures from a golf website, only several remote inland provincial regions have no golf courses. They are ...

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