As China requires more cultivated land to feed its increasing population, the sustainable development of cultivated land in its intensive agricultural production system has become a major issue for government and society. We firstly reviewed the progress of paddy-upland rotation (PUR) and conservation tillage, found that PUR was improve significantly soil properties, including redox potential of soil, the mineralization of soil organic matter, and the abundance of beneficial microorganisms, suggested that conservation tillage was an effective m...
