Recently, there was a paragraph on the Internet that a village cadre in Pilao Village, Puning City, Guangdong Province, occupied 60 acres of land, of which 40 acres of land had houses built. This incident has aroused widespread concern in society. The people of Puning City issued a briefing on March 2, saying that they have attached great importance to the problems reported by netizens and are conducting an in-depth investigation.
After verification, the named village director was actually Huang Mouxiong, a villager who served as the director of the village's village committee and secretary of the village party branch from June 2008 to March 2014, but no longer held relevant positions after that. Huang Mouxiong was criminally detained on January 9, 2024, on suspicion of illegal transfer of land use rights, and then approved for arrest on February 2. At present, the relevant situation is still under further investigation.
This incident has further aroused the attention of all sectors of society to the qualifications and performance of duties of grassroots village cadres. People call on the judicial organs to handle matters fairly in accordance with the law and uphold their authority in order to ensure social fairness and justice. At the same time, it also called on relevant departments to increase the supervision and management of grassroots village cadres, promote innovation in village governance methods, and improve the grassroots villager autonomy system to better protect the legitimate rights and interests of farmers.
It is hoped that this incident can become a warning to the problem of grassroots villages, and urge local governments and relevant departments to pay more attention to the reform of grassroots governance and rural land management, so as to build a more fair, just, harmonious and orderly social environment.
The village cadres occupy 60 acres of land and use 40 acres to build high-rise villas