The foundation of ensuring national food security lies in cultivated land.

Who is in charge of land circulation, how large the scale of land management is moderate, how to guide the "non-grain" of cultivated land, and how to treat the fever of industrial and commercial capital going to the countryside?

How to turn the land?

At present, land transfer is showing a trend of accelerated development in all parts of the country. By the end of 2013, the circulation area of contracted cultivated land nationwide was 340 million mu, 3.1 times that of the end of 2008, and the proportion of transfer reached 26 percent, an increase of 17.1 percentage points over the end of 2008. There are more than 2.87 million professional households with an operating area of more than 50 mu and more than 870000 family farms.

However, recently, there is also a phenomenon of eagerness in the process of rural land transfer in some places, and there is a misunderstanding of the central policy. How to treat the phenomena such as the "de-grain" of land and the popularity of industrial and commercial capital going to the countryside? How large is the scale of rural land transfer? How to promote land transfer in an orderly manner? The reporter interviewed Zhang Hongyu, director of the Rural Economic system and Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Who is in charge of land transfer in the end?

Rural land transfer involves the interests of contracted farmers, scale operators, village collective economic organizations and other interests, the local government is also very concerned, who is in charge of this issue?

In this regard, Zhang Hongyu pointed out that land transfer is a process of resource allocation, and the market should play a decisive role. However, land is the lifeblood of farmers, and the government must safeguard the interests of farmers, do a good job in management and service, and play a role of standardization and guidance.

"the law stipulates that the household contract management of rural collective land in China is carried out by peasant households. Whether the land is transferred, how to determine the price, and how to choose the form should be decided by the contracted farmers independently, and no organization or individual can force or restrict it." Zhang Hongyu said: at present, some localities unilaterally pursue the scale and proportion of circulation, and rely on administrative orders to set targets, set tasks, and speed up, thus harming the interests of farmers.The problem lies in being eager for success, being offside, intervening too much, replacing the role of the market and taking the place of farmers.

It is understood that at present, 2/3 of the counties and townships in China have not established a land transfer service platform, nearly 40% of the land transfer has not signed contracts, and 188000 land transfer disputes were accepted last year.

Experts said that in the future, the government should constantly standardize land transfer behavior and improve land transfer services by establishing and improving the open market for land transfer, strengthening the management of land transfer contracts, and improving the dispute mediation mechanism, so as to create good environmental conditions for the transfer of contracted management rights of farmers.

How large is the scale of land management?

Many people believe that the main problem restricting the development of modern agriculture in China is the small scale of operation, and the current focus is to expand the scale of land management.

"the larger the scale of land management, the better." Zhang Hongyu stressed: a large population and little land is the basic national condition of our country.As the existing production conditions and the rural population are still large, the excessive scale of land management will affect the land output rate and farmers' employment, which is not conducive to increasing agricultural production and farmers' income. Therefore, we should fully consider the regional differences, natural economic conditions, the transfer of rural labor, the cost of production, the level of agricultural mechanization and other factors, and determine the appropriate scale of land management in this area according to local conditions.