LEGAL ASPECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN NORTHEAST CHINA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY

УДК 349.414 ББК 67.407

Abstract

The state of China's natural resource potential in the first half of the 20th century was assessed as verysatisfactory. This was explained, on the one hand, by the fact that China was a predominantly agriculturalstate, on the other hand, by the small population in the country.The prerequisites for the formation of legislation regulating public relations related to the involvementof certain natural resources in economic turnover are the resolutions adopted in ancient China during theimperial rule. The legal foundations of environmental management in the studied period of time — the first half of theXX century — developed quite actively. However, most of the legislative provisions regulating certain issuesin the field of environmental management were very fragmentary. The insufficiency of legislative regulation,at times, was often compensated by the adopted instructional materials, which were distributed to a limitedlist of territories, in particular, for example, those operating exclusively within the borders of the territory ofNorthern Manchuria. This, in turn, made it possible to put forward a judgment on the claims of the Manchupeoples to certain natural resources in China in the first half of the 20th century.The purpose of the research is to determine the role of regulatory legal acts regulating certain issues inthe field of environmental management in Northeast China in the first half of the 20th century.According to the results of the study, the author concludes that the legal regulation of public relationson the use of certain natural resources in the first half of the 20th century became the basis for the formationof natural resource legislation, the development of which was based, among other things, in the interests ofthe peoples of Northern Manchuria.