On the occasion of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th ** Commission for Discipline Inspection, the ** Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission published an article to systematically sort out the discipline inspection and supervision work in 2023. Uncle Dao noticed a set of data in the article:
In 2023, the ** Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission will centrally supervise and handle 66 clues on cultivated land violations of discipline and law to 25 provincial (autonomous region, municipal) discipline inspection commissions and supervision commissions, and a total of 746 responsible persons and 97 responsible units will be held accountable, of which 204 are local party committees, ** or department "leaders".
It is worth talking about holding the "top leader" accountable for violating discipline and law in cultivated land.
Source: The Paper).
One. In the face of the "non-agriculturalization" of cultivated land prohibited by the state, some localities have not carried out orders and prohibitions, occupied cultivated land in violation of laws and regulations, and even occupied permanent basic farmland for non-agricultural construction
In some places, cultivated land is encroached upon, fields are dug to make lakes, and lakes are dug to create landscaping. In Fuxin, Liaoning, Zhangwu County Dade Village Joint Stock Economic Cooperative and Liaoning Deliger Grassland Ecological Development *** occupied 124 46 acres of cultivated land in Dade Village without approval. What did you do with the land you occupied?Construct scenic spots, build homestays, restaurants, landscape water systems, visitor centers, ice and snow fields, rainbow slides, playgrounds, scenic roads and other leisure and tourism facilities.
Some local party and government organs have taken matters into their own hands to illegally requisition land and occupy land. For example, the Party Committee of Liuzhi Special Economic Zone of Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province, in order to build the Langdai Mountain Tourism Resort, led the promotion of illegal land covering an area of 701 4 acres, including 225 08 acres of cultivated land. In addition to leading the promotion, the local party committee also intervenes in the administration of relevant departments in accordance with the law.
In some places, the idea of permanent basic farmland has been initiated. In Langfang, Hebei Province, some villagers illegally occupied permanent basic farmland for planting green decorative turf. Judging from the circular, nearly 620 acres of permanent basic farmland have been occupied. There were grassroots cadres who reported violations to the town's comprehensive law enforcement team, but the local government only verbally notified the rectification, and it was not until the first inspector intervened that the plot could be replanted.
According to the report of the Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission and the Ministry of Natural Resources, there are a lot of people who encroach on cultivated land to engage in flower seascape areas and beer towns, and cover soil on cement floors to pretend to be inspected. **According to data from the Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, since the launch of the special rectification of illegal occupation of farmland and construction of houses in rural areas in July 2020, discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels have investigated and dealt with a total of 8,306 related problems, and imposed party discipline and government sanctions on 8,803 people. The results of the 2022 land change survey show that arable land in many provinces is still decreasing.
Judging from the data, the task of cultivated land protection is still very arduous.
The Xuanzhou District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Xuancheng City, Anhui Province, has carried out special supervision and inspection on issues such as the indiscriminate occupation of cultivated land and the "non-grain conversion". Source: **Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission**.
Two. The Chinese have more than 1.4 billion people and account for nearly 20 percent of the world's total, but arable land accounts for only 9 percent of the world's totalThe per capita cultivated land area is about 1.4 mu, less than half of the world average.
At the beginning of this century, from the perspective of food security, China proposed to guard the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land. At that time, it was proposed that if this red line was breached, it would be an irreversible historical mistake that would be a disaster for future generations.
However, why is the "non-agricultural" and "non-grain" conversion of cultivated land still repeatedly prohibited?Qian Wenrong, dean of the China Rural Development Research Institute of Zhejiang University, said two words to Uncle Dao: "Interests." Qian Wenrong said that local interests are not completely consistent with overall interests. From the perspective of economic growth, the development of secondary and tertiary industries is faster than that of the primary industry, and once there is a conflict between cultivated land protection and economic development, it is easy for local governments to sacrifice cultivated land in exchange for economic development. For example, compared with cash crops, the income from grain crops is significantly lower, and when cash crops encroach on cultivated land, farmers do not have too strong incentive to block them.
In addition to the low returns from growing grain, the deviation of some leading cadres' view of political performance will also aggravate the problem of farmland encroachment. Some people only think about personal promotion, are keen to create momentum, create so-called outstanding achievements and political achievements, ignore the red line of cultivated land, and become a real "cultivated land assassin";Some people are careless and negligent, and they turn a blind eye because of the "sophistication of human feelings";There are also those who abuse power for personal gain, accept bribes, and rely on the country's land to make their own fortune.
In addition, cultivated land protection involves multiple departments, and if there is a lack of effective coordination and penetration mechanism in one place, it is difficult for various departments to form a joint force in specific work.
Cadres of the Jinhua Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Zhejiang Province learned about the situation from grain growers. Source: **Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission**.
Three. No matter how difficult it is, it must be managed. Qian Wenrong believes that guarding the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land is inseparable from three key words.
The first is assessment. It includes the direct assessment of the effectiveness of cultivated land protection and the improvement of the local economic assessment system and mechanism. At present, the new round of land and spatial planning has clarified the tasks of cultivated land and permanent basic farmland protection and landing, these are hard bars, the relevant departments should be strictly assessed and accountable, strengthen special supervision, and decisively "show the sword" to the destruction of cultivated land. To improve the assessment indicators of the local economy, we cannot simply judge the hero by the economic growth rate. Local *** also has to put a correct view of political performance, don't always think that one term is only in charge of one thing, and the picture is glamorous, you must know that the red line of cultivated land is a lifelong investigation, and you have to be responsible for retirement.
The second is technology. Farmland is easy to destroy, but difficult to repair. For the illegal occupation of cultivated land, early detection of a day can reduce a little loss, can not wait for the topsoil layer to be damaged and then found and rectified, then it will be difficult to repair. It is necessary to make full use of aerial photography, satellite remote sensing monitoring and other technical means to grasp the situation of cultivated land, quickly discover clues to the problem of illegal occupation of cultivated land, and improve the efficiency and accuracy of cultivated land protection.
The third is efficiency. To strengthen the protection of cultivated land, it is necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers and local governments. For farmers, it is necessary to make growing grain profitable. Feasible measures are to promote the development of modern intensive agriculture and the operation of agriculture on a moderate scale, improve agricultural production efficiency, and increase the comparative returns of grain planting. There is money to be made from growing grain, and farmers will naturally make more efforts to protect cultivated land.
In addition, we should not let the grain-growing localities always complain that "why don't other places farm or cultivate less land to develop the economy, and they are still so poor that they work hard to farm." Improving the mechanism for compensating the interests of the main grain-producing areas and forming a joint force for the protection of cultivated land in the main grain-producing areas, the main sales areas, and the production and marketing balance areas are all ways to prescribe the right medicine.
Of course, don't go from one extreme to the other. Qian Wenrong said that the protection of cultivated land should avoid "one-size-fits-all" and "big strides", and it is necessary to establish first and then break down, so as to leave a transitional period for peasants to rectify and reform. Only when peasants' interests are respected can good policies achieve good results.