ABSTRACT
China had more than 9,000 medium-sized mines, 260,000 small-scale mines. Land occupied has approached 40000 square kilometers, and land abandoned reach 330 square kilometers per year because of mining (Qiao et al. 2010). The “Regulations on Land Reclamation” in 1988 and the “People’s Republic of China Environmental Protection Law” in 1989 mark the mine ecological restoration has into a new stage of legality.
