China News Service, September 24th. Han Jun, deputy director of the Central Rural Work Leading Group Office and Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said on the 24th that land transfer income is now as high as 6 to 7 trillion yuan a year and may exceed 7 trillion yuan this year.
Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Adjusting and Improving the Use of Land Transfer Income to Prioritize Rural Revitalization" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions").
On the 24th, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the relevant situation.
At the meeting, a reporter asked: Land transfer income is mainly concentrated in economically developed areas. For areas with less developed economies, the task of rural revitalization is relatively heavy, but land transfer income is not enough. Will some areas accrue? Are funds not used up, and some areas are not enough?
In response, Han Jun responded that the income from land transfer is now as high as RMB 6 or 7 trillion a year and may exceed RMB 7 trillion this year.
"But the distribution of land transfer income is very uneven. Economically developed areas, especially some large cities and central cities, have high land transfer prices. Local governments have large land transfer incomes and large amounts of accrued funds. However, the rural areas in these areas The level of development is also relatively high. In some economically underdeveloped areas, especially at the county level, the land is not valuable, the price is very low, and the gap is too great. These counties may have hundreds of thousands of acres of land. It has reached eighteen million, and even some more important areas are tens of millions of acres. The income from land transfers in these underdeveloped counties and cities is actually not much, but the task of revitalizing the villages in these places is very heavy. In order to prevent the occurrence of inexhaustible funds accrued in some places, and few accruals in some places, which are not enough at all, the "Opinions" have made arrangements for the improvement of the central and provincial level funding adjustment mechanisms."
Han Jun pointed out that, first of all, allow proper coordination at the provincial level.
The land transfer income used for agricultural and rural funds should mainly be arranged by the city and county governments, but the provincial government can use the land transfer income for agricultural and rural funds, and coordinate a certain proportion of the funds. The focus of the adjustment is to support major grain-producing counties and counties with weak financial resources.
How to make overall plans in a specific province, and what proportion of the overall plan is determined by the local governments.
"But our assessment standard is that by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the proportion of land transfer proceeds used in agriculture and rural areas must reach more than 50%, and an additional condition has been designed. The bottom line is that it cannot be less than 8% of the land transfer income. The province will formulate specific measures next."
Han Jun said that, secondly, the central government's overall funding has been tilted towards certain regions.
At present, at the central level, funds for farmland water conservancy construction are withdrawn from the land transfer proceeds, as well as paid use fees for new construction land paid by the city and county governments. In these aspects, the central government will coordinate a certain proportion of funds.
In the future, the central government will continue to coordinate a certain amount of funds in accordance with current regulations and standards. This ratio will remain unchanged and will not increase local burdens.
Considering that the main grain-producing areas and the central and western regions have weak financial resources and the heavy task of rural revitalization, the document emphasizes that the central government's overall funds should be used in favor of these areas.
In addition, a few provinces such as Beijing and Shanghai have appropriately relaxed requirements.
The income from land transfer in Beijing, Shanghai and other places is very high, but the proportion of agricultural and rural areas is relatively low. For these areas, it is allowed to determine the specific proportion of increasing land transfer income for agricultural and rural areas according to actual needs.
Although these places can be determined on their own, there is a hard requirement in the document, which is to ensure that the income from land transfers is used to support rural revitalization.