Protecting basic farmland starts from big cities

A few days ago, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture jointly issued the Circular on further doing a good job in the delineation of permanent basic farmland, requiring that the existing high-quality farmland that can be easily occupied around cities and towns and along transportation lines be given priority to permanent basic farmland. It is clearly proposed that the delimitation work should be carried out in a steady and orderly manner, starting with large cities with a population of more than 5 million. The delineation of permanent basic farmland from big cities is an insurmountable hard lever for the protection of cultivated land in big cities.

With the acceleration of urbanization, the built area of cities and towns continues to expand, and the cultivated land around the city is gradually.

Reduction, such as large and medium-sized cities, small and medium-sized towns also follow suit, in the long run, not only grief for farmers, but also a threat to national food security. Therefore, it is particularly critical for the notice to give priority to the delineation of permanent basic farmland in big cities. To set rules for big cities is to tighten the "faucets" that illegally change the use of cultivated land. Only in this way can we ensure that the area of real cultivated land does not decrease and stick to the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land.

Of course, the reason for setting rules for protecting the arable land around the town is that it is easy to be occupied. In order to effectively protect the arable land around cities and towns and put the requirements of the notice into place, the "rules" of guarding the rules in practice still need to see the real chapter.