Legal basis: "Regulations on the Management of Planning and Construction of Villages and Market Towns" Article 18 When rural villagers build houses in the planned areas of villages and market towns, they should first apply to the village collective economic organizations or villagers' committees for building houses, and go through the following examination and approval procedures after being discussed and approved by the villagers' meeting: (1) If cultivated land is needed, it can be submitted to the land management department of the people's government at the county level after being examined and approved by the construction administrative department of the township people's government and the people's government at the county level and giving opinions on site selection. (two) the use of the original homestead, village homestead and other land, approved by the people's government at the township level according to the village and market town planning and land use planning. Urban non-agricultural registered permanent residence residents who need to use collectively-owned land to build houses in the planned areas of villages and market towns shall go through the examination and approval procedures specified in Item (1) of the preceding paragraph with the consent of their units or residents' committees. Workers, veterans, retired cadres and overseas Chinese, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan who need to use collectively owned land to build houses in the town planning area shall be handled in accordance with the examination and approval procedures specified in Item (1) of the first paragraph of this article.
People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Code
Article 288 The neighboring obligee of real estate shall correctly handle the neighboring relationship in accordance with the principles of facilitating production, facilitating life, solidarity and mutual assistance, and fairness and reasonableness.
Article 293 The construction of a building shall not violate the relevant national engineering construction standards, and shall not interfere with the ventilation, lighting and sunshine of adjacent buildings.
Article 294 A real estate owner may not abandon solid wastes in violation of state regulations, or discharge harmful substances such as air pollutants, water pollutants, soil pollutants, noise, light radiation and electromagnetic radiation.