12-5 AREA UNDER CULTIVATION
The cultivated area in this table is under-estimated and is subject to further verification.
Unit:1 000 hectares
	Cultivated			Decrease in
Year Region	Area	Paddy	Dry	Cultivated	Capital	Village	Peasant
		Fields	Fields	Area in	Construc-	Collective	Housing
	(year-end)			the Year	tion	Construction	Construction
1978	99389.5	25419.7	73969.8	800.9	144.5
1980	99305.2	25322.2	73983.0	940.8	97.7
1985	96846.3	25033.0	71813.3	1597.9	134.3	92.3	97.0
1986	96229.9	25055.1	71174.7	1108.3	109.6	58.5	84.5
1987	95888.7	25104.1	70784.5	817.5	104.6	52.0	57.5
1988	95721.8	25077.7	70644.1	644.7	87.8	37.4	37.6
1989	95656.0	25265.8	70390.2	517.5	70.1	34.6	27.4
1990	95672.9	25518.9	70154.1	467.4	66.3	30.3	36.7
1991	95653.6	25706.5	69947.1	488.0	71.9	33.4	20.5
1992	95425.8	25597.2	69828.6	738.7	131.7	64.1	23.9
1993	95101.4	25028.0	70073.4	732.3	161.0	86.0	24.0
1994	94906.7	24762.9	70143.8	708.7	132.6	80.2	33.0
1995	94970.9	24850.5	70120.4	621.1	111.9	84.9	31.6
Beijing	399.5	23.7	375.8	2.9	1.5
Tianjin	426.1	48.5	377.7	1.5	1.1	0.2
Hebei	6517.3	126.5	6390.7	19.4	8.6	2.6	1.5
Shanxi	3645.1	8.8	3636.3	15.4	2.5	2.3	2.2
Inner Mongolia	5491.4	84.3	5407.1	77.5	3.8	12.0	1.0
Liaoning	3389.7	468.6	2921.1	27.0	2.7	1.3	0.7
Jilin	3953.2	425.2	3528.0	19.5	2.9	1.8	0.7
Heilongjiang	8995.3	868.8	8126.5	23.4	5.2	8.9	0.5
Shanghai	290.0	253.9	36.1	4.8	1.7	2.2	0.2
Jiangsu	4448.3	2669.7	1778.6	23.7	11.7	2.5	1.7
Zhejiang	1617.8	1344.9	272.9	22.2	7.5	7.5	2.3
Anhui	4291.1	1857.6	2433.5	13.5	5.6	4.3	2.2
Fujian	1204.0	972.5	231.5	9.5	3.2	0.4	0.3
Jiangxi	2308.4	1946.9	361.6	8.0	3.1	0.6	0.7
Shandong	6696.0	156.7	6539.3	34.4	10.9	10.0	2.7
Henan	6805.8	446.6	6359.2	31.0	4.5	2.0	2.1
Hubei	3358.0	1780.4	1577.6	21.4	4.2	3.0	0.7
Hunan	3249.7	2562.9	686.8	18.3	3.5	1.2	0.8
Guangdong	2317.3	1698.7	618.7	35.2	5.0	2.6	0.4
Guangxi	2614.2	1540.3	1073.9	29.0	3.8	0.9	0.5
Hainan	429.2	248.2	181.0	3.9	1.1	0.1	0.1
Chongqing
Sichuan	6189.6	3156.0	3033.6	32.8	7.6	10.0	2.7
Guizhou	1840.0	768.4	1071.6	7.0	1.9	0.9	0.9
Yunnan	2870.6	958.8	1911.9	35.5	3.2	1.7	1.0
Tibet	222.1	0.8	221.3	0.4	0.1	...
Shaanxi	3393.4	176.0	3217.4	54.0	1.9	1.4	2.6
Gansu	3482.5	9.3	3473.2	3.5	0.5	0.3	0.6
Qinghai	589.9	...	589.9	1.2	0.2	...	0.2
Ningxia	807.2	170.9	636.3	3.8	0.7	0.1	0.2
Xinjiang	3128.3	76.7	3051.6	41.6	2.0	4.2	2.3
a)The decrease in cultivated area includes the decrease caused by the occupation of cultivated land for various reasons and the abandoned area caused by natural disasters.

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