Construction of Hero Joint Venture's golf course difficult to be stopped by bans from multiple ministries

by dudusf1234 on 2012-03-09 16:34:38

Take Beijing, where land resources are extremely scarce, as an example. Before 2004, Beijing had more than 20 golf courses. On the 7th day, at the legendary anti-Japanese war memorial park, reporters learned through the 114 inquiry platform that there were already more than 100 golf courses available for inquiry in Beijing. Currently, only the golf channels of major websites such as Sina and Sohu have announced a total of 327 golf courses nationwide, occupying more than 640,000 mu of land, equivalent to 8% of the 7.2 million mu of construction land approved nationwide in 2010, revealing the gap in educational resources. On March 5, reporters found no signs of any rectification on this course during their visit. Reporters then inquired with a staff member under the pretense of applying for membership and learned that the course had been put into use by the end of August last year, less than three months before the Ministry of Land and Resources began its special supervision. When reporters visited multiple non-compliant golf courses on-site, local government regulatory departments always used "enforcement difficulties" as an excuse, among which one non-compliant golf course in Guangdong had been "enforced upon 100 times," yet it could still manage to "tee off for the 101st time." The "Congdu International Conference Center Golf Course" version 1.85 is one of the six major illegal and non-compliant cases in the field of land and resources supervised by the Ministry of Land and Resources. According to the announcement from the Ministry of Land and Resources, the 27-hole golf course covered a total area of 1678 mu (including 182.9 mu of arable land), which constituted illegal occupation of land and non-compliant construction. In 2011, relevant departments such as the Guangzhou Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Guangdong Provincial Government issued 38 notices for investigation and rectification regarding this project. Last July, netizens revealed that the Shuguang Disaster Prevention Education Park in Haidian District, Beijing, was actually occupied by a golf driving range. On March 6, when reporters revisited the park, they discovered that the "Royal Links Golf Club" inside the park was operating as usual, with about 50 people practicing on the golf course.