Professor SHENG Hong first introduced the methodology, key findings, and background of the research. He stressed three key elements of the research, i.e., the distinction between sovereignty over land and property right of land, permanent tenancy as the alternative to collective ownership of land, and containment of power over land by land-related departments. The Framework of this research consists of the following aspects: the sovereign significance of china’s land; land property rights under state sovereignty; the types of land property rights, registration of land property rights (cadastral system); transaction and procedure for land property right; ownership, execution, transfer and extinction of collectively-owned land property rights; the ownership, acquisition, and transfer of land property right by government; supervision over execution of government-owned land property right; turnover, use, and supervision of the benefit of government-owned land; taxing, subsidizing, and regulating on land property right by the government; definition, power, and obligation of government land public administrative department; definition, power, and obligations of land planning and government land planning department; restriction and supervision over land related government department; and the judicial procedures to settle land disputes.