What are the regulations regarding land use conversion under the 2024 Land Law?

Article 121 of the 2024 Land Law stipulates the following regarding the conversion of land use purposes:

1. Cases requiring permission from competent state authorities for land use conversion include:

a) Converting rice paddy land, special-use forest land, protective forest land, and production forest land to other land types within the agricultural land group;

b) Converting agricultural land to non-agricultural land;

c) Converting other land types to land for concentrated livestock farming when implementing large-scale concentrated livestock farming projects;

d) Converting non-agricultural land allocated by the State without land use fees to other types of non-agricultural land allocated by the State with land use fees or leased;

d) Converting non-agricultural land other than residential land to residential land;

e) Converting land designated for public service facilities or land used for public purposes with commercial objectives to land for non-agricultural production and business;

g) Converting non-agricultural production and business land (excluding commercial and service land) to commercial and service land.

2. When changing the land use purpose as prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article, the land user must fulfill financial obligations as prescribed by law; the land use regime, rights and obligations of the land user shall be applied according to the type of land after the change of land use purpose.

3. Changes in land use purposes that do not fall under the cases specified in Clause 1 of this Article do not require permission from the competent state agency.

In cases where land originally designated as residential or non-agricultural land with a long-term, stable land use period in accordance with the law has been converted to other purposes, and there is now a need to convert it back to residential land and it conforms to the land use plan, no land use fee needs to be paid.

4. The conversion of land use as stipulated in this Article shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of Article 124 of this Law.