China has a unique land use system in which there are two types of land ownership, namely, state-owned urban land and farmer collective-owned rural land.
use rights
These are rights to use the land for agriculture, grazing, gathering of forestry products, etc. The right to use land is one of the essential rights of landownership, but may also be the right to use and profit from immovable property as if the user were the owner (usufruct).
Source: FAO Land Tenure Manuals, No.2, FAO, 2006