China's Ministry of Land and Resources has published the annual inspection details for national solid mineral exploration in China in 2010.
36,362 solid mineral exploration projects were to be inspected nationwide in China in 2010, while 33,235 projects were actually inspected. The qualification rate of solid mineral exploration projects in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Fujian Province, Shandong Province, Hainan Province, Chongqing, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region reached 100 percent, while the qualification rate in the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shanxi, Gansu and Qinghai reached over 95 percent.