Three departments: it is strictly forbidden to expand the scope of facility agricultural land at will.

Report from our correspondent (Reporter Du Xin) Recently, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture jointly issued the Notice on Further Supporting the Healthy Development of Facility Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), which, while strengthening policy support to ensure the reasonable land use demand for facility agriculture, further standardize the use of facility agricultural land and strengthen the supervision of law enforcement by departments.

The Circular reasonably defines the scope of agricultural land for facilities. The facility agricultural land is specifically divided into production facility land, auxiliary facility land and supporting facility land, and the scope of the three aspects is further clarified. When defining the scope, the supporting facilities land required for large-scale grain production shall be included in the scope of facility agricultural land to support large-scale land operation and large-scale grain production; at the same time, the living land in the auxiliary facilities shall be excluded from the scope of facility agricultural land.

The Circular clearly states that it is strictly prohibited to expand the scope of agricultural land for facilities at will, places for commercial grain storage, processing and storage and maintenance of agricultural machinery and agricultural materials, leisure and sightseeing resorts based on agriculture, various manors, wineries, farmhouses, and land involved in the construction of permanent catering, accommodation, conferences, large-scale parking lots, factory agricultural products processing, exhibitions and other land in various agricultural parks, which must be managed according to laws and regulations according to construction land.

The Circular lays down provisions on such contents as "managing land for agricultural facilities according to agricultural land","reasonably controlling the scale of land for auxiliary facilities and supporting facilities","guiding the construction of facilities to reasonably select sites", and "encouraging the centralized construction of public facilities". The Circular clearly states that the land for production facilities, auxiliary facilities and supporting facilities is directly used for or serves agricultural production, and its nature belongs to agricultural land and shall be managed according to agricultural land; after the end of production, the operator shall carry out land reclamation according to relevant regulations, and the occupied cultivated land shall be reclaimed as cultivated land. For the construction of supporting facilities involved in large-scale grain production in plain areas, it is really difficult to arrange the site selection on other land types and cannot avoid basic farmland. After demonstration, basic farmland can be occupied.