How to balance cultivated land occupation and compensation?

In order to strengthen the protection of cultivated land, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Central Agricultural Office further clarified the mechanism of strictly controlling the balance of cultivated land occupation and compensation on the 27th, emphasizing the primary responsibility of local party committees and governments for the protection of cultivated land.

Jiang Daming, Minister of Land and Resources, said at the video conference of the three departments implementing the opinions of the Central Committee of the State Council on strengthening the protection of cultivated land and improving the balance of occupation and compensation that China's cultivated land protection is facing multiple pressures, and the realization of the balance of cultivated land occupation and compensation is the main contradiction, and the replenishment is the main aspect of the contradiction. It is necessary to seize the "bull nose" of the balance of cultivated land occupation and compensation, strengthen responsibility, and strengthen the assessment and supervision of cultivated land protection. According to the requirements of the central government, the assessment results of farmland protection responsibility target should be regarded as an important content of leading cadres' performance assessment and ecological civilization construction target assessment. The party and government have the same responsibility for the protection of cultivated land, and further compact the first responsibility of local party committees and governments to hold the red line of cultivated land.

Jiang Daming pointed out that according to the law, if non-agricultural construction occupies cultivated land, the construction unit must fulfill its obligation to supplement cultivated land. However, in actual implementation, the construction unit often cannot replenish the same quality and quantity of cultivated land by itself, and can only pay the land reclamation fee in full according to the standard, and the local government will implement the task of replenishing cultivated land. In view of the unclear responsibility of the construction unit to supplement cultivated land and the responsibility of the local government to protect cultivated land, and the close connection between the main responsibility of occupation and compensation and the assessment of the target responsibility of cultivated land protection, the opinion separates the "obligation of supplementing cultivated land" from the "task of supplementing cultivated land", clarifies the task responsibility of the local government to supplement cultivated land, and reaffirms the obligation of the construction occupation unit to make it consistent with the main responsibility of cultivated land protection, which is more operational and conducive to assessment.

Yu Xinrong, Vice Minister of Agriculture, stressed that the balance of occupation and compensation should be included in the responsibility system of the governor of food security and the target assessment of the provincial farmland protection responsibility, and the assessment and reward and punishment mechanism should be improved. The balance of occupation and compensation is mainly self-balancing in the county, supplemented by adjustment in the province. According to the actual situation, the state makes appropriate overall planning. The scope of national moderate overall planning is extremely small, the conditions are extremely high and the procedures are strict. Only municipalities directly under the central government with serious shortage of arable land reserve resources or provinces with serious constraints on resources and environmental conditions can apply for it because of the needs of major national construction projects. National overall planning is not free, and it is necessary to pay enough funds to the central finance to supplement cultivated land. In this regard, strict standards, strict conditions and strict procedures must be adopted to ensure that the policy does not go out of shape.