Tighten the "fence" of cultivated land protection and build a solid foundation for national food security

Li Keqiang made important instructions for the video conference on the delineation of permanent basic farmland and the management of facility agricultural land.

Tighten the "fence" of cultivated Land Protection and build the Cornerstone of National Food Security

Zhang Gaoli Wang Yang gave instructions

According to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 5-A video conference on the delineation of permanent basic farmland and the management of facility agricultural land was held on January 5. Li Keqiang, member of the standing Committee of the political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and premier of the State Council, gave important instructions. The instruction points out that China has a large population and little land, and it is necessary to keep the red line of cultivated land and the red line of basic farmland at all times. It is necessary to attach equal importance to quantity and quality, strictly delimit permanent basic farmland, strictly implement special protection, tighten the "fence" for the protection of cultivated land, and build a solid foundation stone for the country's food security. To change the mode of agricultural development and promote agricultural modernization, we need the development of facility agriculture. We should not only clarify its special land use policy, but also strictly standardize land use management, strengthen monitoring and inspection, and seriously deal with the problems of land violations. Local governments at all levels should earnestly assume the main responsibility and unswervingly implement the strictest cultivated land protection system and the strictest land conservation system in the process of deepening the reform of the rural land system and promoting a new type of urbanization. leave fertile land and green fields to future generations.

Zhang Gaoli, member of the standing Committee of the political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, issued instructions demanding that the Ministry of Land and Resources and other departments conscientiously implement the requirements of Premier Li Keqiang's important instructions, implement various tasks in a down-to-earth manner, resolutely uphold the red line of cultivated land and basic farmland, and strive to build green fields to ensure food security and benefit future generations.

Wang Yang, member of the political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, also gave instructions.

A (Reporter Ning Qiwen Gao Wen) on January 5, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture jointly held a video conference in Beijing to deploy a major action for cultivated land protection-- implementing the delineation of permanent basic farmland and standardizing the management of facility agricultural land. Premier Li Keqiang, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, and Vice Premier Wang Yang gave important instructions on the work deployment, which were conveyed at the meeting.

Han Changfu, minister of agriculture, and Jiang Daming, minister of land and resources, respectively spoke at the meeting and made specific arrangements for the two tasks.

The meeting pointed out that cultivated land is the foundation of agricultural development and the foundation for farmers to settle down, and must be strictly protected. It is necessary to resolutely implement the policy decisions and arrangements of the Central Committee and the important instructions of the leadership of the State Council, do a good job in the delineation of permanent basic farmland with a high degree of consciousness, and strengthen the management of facility agricultural land with strict measures. Permanent basic farmland is the cultivated land that must be ensured to ensure national food security and the effective supply of important agricultural products, and must be permanently protected once it is designated. The guarantee of national food security lies in cultivated land, and we must keep the red line of cultivated land, ensure that the quantity of basic farmland is not reduced, the quality of cultivated land is improved, and achieve "storing grain in the land." It is necessary to give special support and strictly standardize the management of facility agricultural land, support the development of modern agriculture, promote large-scale operation of agriculture, prohibit the "non-agriculturalization" of cultivated land, and build a solid bottom line for the reform of the rural land system.

The meeting stressed that the joint deployment of the two departments to delineate permanent basic farmland is a perfection on the basis of the existing work, and the main task is to thoroughly implement the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, in accordance with the scale from big cities to small towns, in space, from the periphery of cities and towns to the vast rural areas, the approved basic farmland protection targets and tasks will be landed on the door in time, and the above picture will be put into storage. The key point is to give priority to the existing high-quality farmland that is easy to be occupied around cities and towns and along the transportation line as permanent basic farmland, and the built high-standard farmland as permanent basic farmland as soon as possible. Once the permanent basic farmland has been designated, it shall not be adjusted or occupied at will. Urban construction should jump out of the designated permanent basic farmland, and shall not encroach on basic farmland to build new areas, nor can it illegally encroach on or occupy basic farmland in the name of various parks and development zones.

On the basis of clarifying the policy of supporting facility agricultural land, the meeting stressed the need to strictly standardize management, establish bottom line thinking, adhere to the principle of "agricultural land use", and comprehensively use various means to strengthen the monitoring and inspection of facility agricultural land. Those who use land in violation of laws and regulations in the name of the development of agricultural facilities should be seriously investigated and punished, and be held accountable to ensure that the provisions of the "three forbids and three prohibitions" are effectively implemented, that is, land use shall not be changed and unauthorized use of other non-agricultural construction shall be prohibited; land use shall not be exceeded and unauthorized expansion of land use shall be prohibited; the nature of agricultural facilities shall not be changed and unauthorized use of agricultural facilities in other operations shall be prohibited.

The meeting demanded that to keep the red line of cultivated land and basic farmland and to support and standardize the development of facility agriculture, we must implement the principal responsibility of governments at all levels, and the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture should enhance their sense of responsibility. we should strengthen the guidance, supervision and inspection of local work, earnestly raise local party committees and governments at all levels and relevant departments' understanding of the importance and urgency of cultivated land protection work, and resolutely implement the central decision and deployment. We should delimit and nail down permanent basic farmland, do a good job in the development of facility agriculture, make due contributions to ensuring national food security and promoting the development of modern agriculture, and leave fertile land and green fields to future generations.

Leading comrades in charge of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and local people's governments below the provincial level, responsible comrades of local departments in charge of land, resources and agriculture at all levels, responsible comrades of the Land and Resources Bureau and Agricultural Bureau of the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, and relevant comrades assigned to local state land supervision bureaus attended the meeting.

Leave fertile land to future generations forever.

Commentator of this newspaper

At the beginning of the new year, the two departments of the State Council jointly held a video conference on the delineation of permanent basic farmland and the management of facility agricultural land, implementing the instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and other central leading comrades, and jointly promoting the protection of cultivated land and the delimitation of permanent basic farmland, which is an important measure to love, protect and strengthen farmers. It fully reflects that the CPC Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the protection of cultivated land and the development of facility agriculture.

The CPC Central Committee and the State Council have always attached great importance to the protection of cultivated land. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "the red line of cultivated land should be strictly guarded,"permanent basic farmland should be designated," and "cultivated land should be protected like cultural relics, or even like giant pandas." Premier Li Keqiang pointed out that it is necessary to strictly demarcate permanent basic farmland, strictly implement special protection, and tighten the "fence" for the protection of cultivated land. This fully reflects the central government's profound grasp of China's national conditions, agricultural conditions, and grain conditions, and fully demonstrates the central government's firm determination to protect cultivated land and ensure the country's food security. We must deeply understand, accurately grasp, and resolutely implement it.

Cultivated land is the foundation of agricultural development and the foundation for farmers to settle down. The demand for grain is "super-large" and the per capita share of cultivated land is "ultra-small", which are the basic national conditions of our country. At present, China is in the stage of rapid industrialization and urbanization, the pressure to protect cultivated land is increasing, and the task of ensuring national food security is becoming more and more arduous. Judging the hour and sizing up the situation, the central government put forward the bottom line of the food security strategy of "ensuring basic self-sufficiency in grain and absolute safety of food rations." To maintain this strategic bottom line, the premise is to ensure the stability of the quantity and quality of cultivated land, and we must maintain the red line and the bottom line of the quality of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land. If the skin does not exist, how will the hair be attached? If there is no cultivated land, or if the quality of cultivated land is greatly reduced, our supply of agricultural products, especially grain production, will become water without a source and a tree without a source. Therefore, the delineation of permanent basic farmland, especially the existing cultivated land around cities and towns and along transportation lines as permanent basic farmland, is to tighten the "hard lever" of cultivated land protection. Urban planning and construction must "see the mountains, see the water, and remember homesickness," and reserve fertile land for future generations, so that the Chinese nation can have room for sustainable development.

To protect and make good use of cultivated land is the lifeblood of agricultural development and the responsibility of governments and functional departments at all levels. All localities should strengthen the overall planning and coordination of their work, and functional departments should strengthen their sense of responsibility, firmly establish the idea of "a game of chess," take the initiative, act actively, think in one place, work hard in one place, and form a joint force in work, so as to do this good thing well and put it into practice. we will speed up the delineation of permanent basic farmland, strengthen the management of facility agriculture, and make greater contributions to ensuring national food security and promoting the development of modern agriculture.