THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LAND RESOURCE IN XIZANG (TIBET) AND ITS RATIONAL UTILIZATION
西藏土地资源特点及其合理开发

Xizang Autonomous Region (Tibet) is a vast area. There the land suitable for cultivation is few but centralired, the land suitable for pasture is large but different in quality ,and the highfrigid land and the land unsuitable for agriculture are broad. All of these features decide the structure, scale and layout of agriculture in izang. At present the developmental level of lands in Xizang is low, its marketable production is backward and some land has deteriorated so its economic and ecologic benefits are not high, Therefore, alterwards the'intensification of scentific management, incireasing the investment, deep development and protection of thd land resource suitable for agriculture, foresty and pasture reinforced. it is the strategic guiding principles and effective countermeasures for promoting the development of agricultural economy and improving the agricultural productive conditions and ecologic of xizang to raise the per unit area yield of the existing cultivated land improve the grassland, construct the artificial grassland, protect the forests. etc..