zero tolerance! The illegal occupation of 0.08 acres of arable land to build houses was publicly notified
A few days ago, the Ministry of Natural Resources publicly notified 35 typical cases of unlawful occupation of cultivated land and construction of houses recently, involving Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Gansu, Xinjiang and many other places.
A reporter from Workers’ Daily combed through these cases and found that compared with the previously notified cases of unlawful occupation of cultivated land, the reported cases involved a smaller area of unauthorised occupation of cultivated land.
Among them, the illegal occupation of land by rural residents of Tastobie in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang to construct housing, the area involved is only 0.08 mu, which is the smallest among 35 cases, and the largest of these cases is Tangmou, Wudi County, Binzhou City, Shandong Province The illegal occupation of land for construction of factory buildings was only 3.2 mu.
According to the provisions of the Criminal Law and related judicial interpretations, the red line for criminal responsibility is to occupy more than 5 mu of permanent basic farmland and more than 10 mu of general farmland.
"The typical cases reported this time involve a relatively small area, and our main consideration is to reflect the'zero tolerance' attitude towards the newly added arable land and building houses." Cui Ying, director of the Law Enforcement Bureau of the Ministry of Natural Resources, explained that there may be some people I would think that occupying a little arable land to build houses will not have such serious consequences. Everyone thinks that, together, it is not a small amount. It will inevitably have a major impact on the country’s arable land protection and food security.
Regardless of the size or size of the newly added farmland to build houses, they must be stopped in accordance with the law and severely investigated.
Cultivated land protection involves national food security and the survival of 1.4 billion people.
Wu Haiyang, a spokesman for the Ministry of Natural Resources, previously stated that the problem of the indiscriminate occupation of cultivated land to build houses in rural areas is prominent, and allowing it to spread will inevitably aggravate the "non-agriculturalization" of cultivated land and have a serious impact on national food security.
Since July, Dao Dao government orders have pointed out the illegal occupation of cultivated land to build houses.
On July 3, a teleconference held by the State Council pointed out that the illegal occupation of farmland to build houses touched the red line of farmland protection and threatened national food security.
The most urgent task at the moment is to initiate reforms, resolutely stop the increase, prevent further increase in illegal areas, and prevent the cultivated land from being illegally occupied.
On July 29, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "Notice on the "Eight Prohibitions" on the Unlawful Occupation of Farmland and Building Houses in Rural Areas" and the "Notice on Guaranteeing the Reasonable Use of Land for Rural Villagers' Housing Construction", from two aspects: dredging and blocking , Further clarified the relevant requirements to curb new increase and guarantee the demand for reasonable land use, and emphasized the need to adopt a "zero tolerance" attitude to resolutely curb the problem of new illegal and illegal occupation of cultivated land for building houses.
On September 10, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Notice on Resolutely Stopping the Non-agriculturalization of Cultivated Land", calling for effective measures to strengthen supervision and management, implement the strictest cultivated land protection system, and resolutely stop all types of non-agricultural land化" behavior.
After the issuance of the notice on July 29, Chen Chenzhao, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Deputy Chief Inspector of Natural Resources of the State, stated that all localities should adopt a “zero tolerance” attitude and deal with them seriously in accordance with the law. Those that are to be demolished shall be demolished, those that shall be confiscated shall be confiscated, and those that shall be re-cultivated shall be restored within a time limit, and those that shall be held accountable shall be held accountable in accordance with laws and regulations.
The reporter found that most of the 35 cases reported this time have been demolished and replanted in place.
However, Wang Yongmei, deputy director of the General Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said at a press conference held by the Ministry on October 20 that, judging from reports from various places, new illegal occupation of cultivated land and house construction still occur from time to time, and there are no new illegal issues. Stopped completely at all.
In the specific law enforcement process, how to define "new addition"?
Cui Ying said that on July 3, the State Council had a video and teleconference to fully deploy related work.
Therefore, all localities must use July 3 as the time node to severely crack down on the newly added illegal occupation of cultivated land to build houses.
"Of course, with regard to the arbitrary occupation of cultivated land and building houses that occurred before July 3, it is not to be left alone. These problems will be treated as historical stock issues and will be rectified and classified step by step." Cui Ying said, September 1 , The Ministry of Natural Resources has issued a work plan for the settlement of the problem of the indiscriminate occupation of arable land in rural areas to build houses to all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), clarifying the relevant requirements of the settlement work, and researching and formulating classified disposal policies on the basis of comprehensive investigations to properly handle history Lay the foundation for inventory problems.
It is worth mentioning that while strictly protecting arable land and preventing the “non-agriculturalization” of arable land, relevant departments also pay special attention to ensuring the reasonable land use needs of villagers’ housing construction in accordance with the law.
In response to the current outstanding problems such as unbalanced demand for planned indicators, unclear requirements for the use of indicators, and misappropriation of indicators, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly issued the "Notice on Guaranteeing the Rational Use of Land for Rural Villagers' Housing Construction."
At present, 16 provinces across the country have formulated specific implementation measures, and the remaining provinces are also carrying out this work.
Du Xin