How does the 2024 Land Law regulate land use purpose conversion?

Article 121 of the 2024 Land Law stipulates the conversion of land use purposes as follows:

1. Cases of land use purpose change that must be permitted by competent state agencies include:

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

b) Converting agricultural land to non-agricultural land;

c) Converting other types of land to concentrated livestock land when implementing large-scale concentrated livestock 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 land lease;

d) Converting non-agricultural land that is not residential land into residential land;

e) Converting land for construction of public works and land used for public purposes with business purposes to land for non-agricultural production and business;

g) Converting non-agricultural production and business land that is not commercial or service land to commercial or service land.

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

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

In case of using land that originated as residential land or non-agricultural land with a long-term stable land use term in accordance with the provisions of law and has been converted to other purposes, but now there is a need to convert it back to residential land and in accordance with land use planning, land use fees do not have to be paid.

4. The change of land use purpose prescribed in this Article shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of Article 124 of this Law.