Can immigrants build houses occupy cultivated land?

The state protects cultivated land according to law, and the conversion of cultivated land into construction land must be approved by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. Land for resettlement housing also belongs to construction land, so it must also be approved by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.

land management law

Forty-fourth construction land, involving the conversion of agricultural land into construction land, shall go through the formalities for examination and approval of agricultural land conversion.

Roads, pipeline projects and large-scale infrastructure construction projects approved by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and construction projects approved by the State Council, which need to occupy land and involve the conversion of agricultural land into construction land, shall be approved by the State Council.

Within the scope of construction land for cities, villages and market towns determined by the overall land use planning, if agricultural land is converted into construction land to implement the overall land use planning, it shall be reported to the original authority that approved the overall land use planning in batches according to the annual land use plan. Within the approved scope of agricultural land conversion, the land for specific construction projects can be approved by the municipal or county people's governments.

The occupation of land by construction projects other than those specified in the second and third paragraphs of this article, which involves the conversion of agricultural land into construction land, shall be approved by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.