Five years ago, Dalu, which is administered by Changfeng county, had more than 12,000 plots of cropland. With two rounds of transformation work completed since 2018, the cropland has been divided into about 500 plots.

In 2014, the central authorities released the General Principles for High-quality Cropland Construction, and amended them last year. The amended version states that China will have 80 million hectares of such land by 2030.

On Oct 16, the report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC stressed that the nation must reinforce the foundations for food security on all fronts.

The report said the total area of farmland in China should not fall below 120 million hectares, and all permanent basic cropland is expected to be gradually developed to a high standard.

The nation's food supply should remain firmly in its own hands, the report added.

In February, the No 1 Central Document, the first major policy document released annually by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, stressed that the central government would implement a plan to transform all permanent basic cropland.