China’s absorption of foreign investment is an important content of China’s fundamental principle of opening up to the outside world, and also an important component of Deng Xiaoping Theory, and is one of the great practices of building up socialist economy with Chinese characteristics. The Third Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party in 1978 confirmed over again the ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, and realized the historical transformation of key work for the entire Party. It also established the basic line of focusing on the central task of economic construction, and made up the great decision of reform and opening up to the outside world. The Law of the People’s Republic of China on Chinese-Foreign Equity Joint Ventures, was promulgated by the National People’s Congress in 1979, then the work of utilizing foreign capital as an important content of opening up to the outside world initiated as China’s fundamental principle. After twenty years of great efforts, the scale of absorbing foreign capital increasingly expanded as well as the level was increasingly upgraded when China’s law and managerial system on foreign investment have been gradually perfected. The achievements won the whole world’s attention, which effectively promoted the continuous, fast and healthy development of national economy.
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China’s Absorption of Foreign Investment

Highway
China is a vast country, and the highway extends in all directions. Highway volume continued to grow. By the end of 2005, the length of highway reached 1.9305 million km, and the road network structure has been further improved. In the length of total national highway, national road was 132,674 km, provincial road was 233,783 km, county road was 494,276 km, rural road was 981,430 km, special road was 88,380 km, accounted for 6.9%, 12.1%, 25.6%, 50.8% and 4.6% of the total roadway length respective.
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Infrastructure Of China

Land Resources　
China has 9.6 million square kilometers land area, accounting for 22.1% of the land area of the asian continent, and accounting for 6.4% of the world’s land area, it is one of the countries which have a vast area of land. China’s abundant land resources has two significant geographical features: 1、The share of mountains which have higher elevations and greater volatility (including hill, mountainous and tableland) over the plains (plains and the high plains), as the ratio of two-thirds and one-third; 2、In complex and diverse ecological environment, formed the features of more grassland, limited arable land, low forest percentage and the percentage of land which difficult to use is high. At present, grassland accounts for 37.4% of the total land area of China, farmland accounts for 10.4%, woodland accounts for 12.7%, and the land such as desert, Gobi, high and cold desert, tor, mountain glaciers and permanent snow which are difficult to use accounted for 20.5%. Nevertheless, it still has great potential for further rational use of land resources in China, in addition to the existing lawn, woodland and farmland, it is estimated that there are still about 33 million hectares of uncultivated lands suitable for agriculture, more than 6,000 million hectares of grazing land and more than 9,000 million hectares of barren hills, wasteland and woodland suitable for forest to be developed and utilized.
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Natural Resources of China