Beijing, August 25 (KCNA) -- Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, stressed the need to perfect the land control system on August 23 when presiding over the collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.

To establish and perfect the strict land control system is one of the matters to implement the scientific outlook on development, a strategic step to guarantee the country's food security and a long-term plan to bring happiness to the rising generations and achieve great prosperity and eternal development of the Chinese nation, he said.

He urged the party committees at all levels and the government to regard the land control as an important work and strengthen the guidance over it.