The State Land Inspector announced the problem of illegal land in 9 prefectures and cities.

In order to urge local people's governments to conscientiously perform their legal duties of land use and management, effectively protect cultivated land, promote economical and intensive land use, and safeguard the rights and interests of the masses, on September 26, the State Chief Land Inspector issued Land Inspector notice No. 9. To Xingtai City in Hebei Province, Siping City in Jilin Province, Huzhou City in Zhejiang Province, Suqian City in Jiangsu Province, Jining City in Shandong Province, Qingyuan City in Guangdong Province, Hengyang City in Hunan Province, Neijiang City in Sichuan Province and Shangluo City in Shaanxi Province, the people's governments of nine prefectures and cities with outstanding land violations were interviewed publicly.

According to the notice, nine prefectures and cities mainly have the following problems:-illegal occupation of land, in which local government-led roads, development parks, new urban areas and other construction projects illegally occupy a large amount of arable land. Xingtai City, Suqian City, Jining City and Siping City all had more than 10,000 mu of illegal land in 2013, which were 36700 mu, 23500 mu, 24100 mu and 13100 mu respectively, and the area of arable land illegally occupied was 22600 mu, 15800 mu, 20700 mu and 0.97 million mu respectively.

-- the illegal sale of land, the non-standard management of revenue and expenditure of land transfer, and the problem of illegal mortgage financing of land are quite prominent. The government of Neijiang City and its jurisdiction has 29 cases of land transfer income of 1.589 billion yuan that has not been collected within the time limit.

-- illegal expropriation of land infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of farmers who have been expropriated, mainly due to illegal land expropriation, inadequate implementation of compensation and resettlement for land expropriation, lack of social security system and expenses, and so on. In Xingtai City, 36 agricultural land conversion and land expropriation projects have not implemented the compensation and resettlement fees for land expropriation, involving an amount of 221 million yuan.

-- Land supply in violation of the state's regulation and control policy. Huzhou Deqing Zhongda Mogan Mountain Ecological Park Development and Construction Co., Ltd. (acquired by Zhejiang Youcheng Holdings Group Co., Ltd.) has changed the use of tourism land approved by the provincial government since August 2009. development and construction of golf courses and real estate projects, involving 2049.34 mu of land.

The notice pointed out that in view of the problems found in the supervision and inspection, the state land supervision bureaus stationed in various places have issued supervision opinions to the relevant provincial people's governments, and will carry out on-the-spot verification of the rectification and reform of the areas being interviewed. The relevant provincial people's governments will organize and implement the rectification and reform work in accordance with the regulations. The purpose of this announcement is to promote local rectification and reform in accordance with the rules and regulations and accept social supervision at the same time.