There must be no mistakes in the protection of cultivated land

General Secretary Xi Jinping recently gave important instructions on the protection of cultivated land. He stressed that cultivated land is the most precious resource in our country. The basic national conditions of our country, which has a large population and little land, determine that we must protect the cultivated land that has a bearing on the food of more than a billion people, and there must be no mistakes.

For a long time, under the clear request of the central government, through mechanisms such as cultivated land responsibility audit, national land supervision and accountability for illegal land, our country has always firmly adhered to the issue of the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land. While supporting the development of China's new urbanization and industrialization, the protection of cultivated land enables us to firmly hold our own rice bowls, and the achievements are obvious to all. However, it must also be noted that at present, the phenomenon of "quantity is more important than quality and inferior quality" is more common in cultivated land protection. In terms of quality, the balance between the occupation and compensation of cultivated land is generally achieved; in terms of quality, the phenomenon of occupying the advantages and disadvantages and the paddy fields and dry fields is more prominent, which leads to the overall decline of the quality of cultivated land in our country.

The situation of "substandard, occupying advantages and disadvantages, occupying paddy fields to make up dry fields" is relatively grim. The results of the second national land survey can be seen: during the 13 years from 1996 to 2009, the country reduced more than 203 million mu of arable land, a large number of which are high-quality arable land, especially the fertile soil in the southeast coastal areas with good light and water resources. The pain of the loss of grain production capacity will not be overshadowed by the digital achievements of the "occupation-compensation balance" of cultivated land in some places, and it is a major loss that cannot be recovered.

Under the current situation of accelerated development of urbanization, to tighten the red line of cultivated land quality, we should first strengthen the awareness of soil protection, rising from "cherishing land" to "cherishing soil". Great efforts should be made to promote the reuse of the cultivated land occupied by construction and stripped off the tillage layer. In order to deal with the great challenge of the balance of occupation and compensation of cultivated land, we must treat "land and soil" differently, land expropriation does not expropriate soil, land occupation first save soil. Based on the annual occupation of 5 million mu of cultivated land, if all the soil in the tillage layer is stripped and utilized, it can rebuild more than 2 million mu of high-quality cultivated land or transform 3.5 million mu of medium-and low-yield farmland, improve the quality of cultivated land grade 2 and so on. It is urgent to let the lost cultivated land be "recovered" and "brought back to life".

To tighten the red line of cultivated land quality, we must give valuable cultivated land a respite. It takes two centuries for one centimeter thick soil to form naturally, and two to four centuries for one centimeter thick plough layer. For this reason, it is not too much to say that cultivated land is as precious as giant pandas. It is necessary to strictly implement the No. 1 document of the CPC Central Committee in 2015, carry out pilot projects to recuperate agricultural resources, and promote the treatment and remediation of soil pollution in a planned and step-by-step manner.

As an ancient agricultural civilization, for thousands of years, through natural fertilizers and natural ripening, our ancestors turned the weather into a geographical location, leaving an inch of arable land. All localities should conscientiously implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, immediately pay close attention to implementation, implement the strictest cultivated land protection system, do a good job in balancing the occupation and compensation of cultivated land in accordance with the law, and promote the circulation of rural land in a standardized and orderly manner. protect our cultivated land like giant pandas.