China News Service, September 16-Guo Yongtian, Director of the Farmland Construction Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, emphasized on the 16th that it is strictly forbidden to discharge substandard sewage into farmland, and it is strictly forbidden to dump domestic garbage and industrial waste into high-standard farmland.
Data map: Aerial photography of a high-standard farmland.
Photo by Zhao Chunliang
On the 16th, the State Council Information Office held a regular policy briefing of the State Council. Zhang Taolin, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and relevant persons in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance introduced the "National High-standard Farmland Construction Plan (2021-2030)".
A reporter asked a question that high-standard farmland must not only be built well, but also be managed and used well in order to give full play to its benefits.
What measures will be taken to protect and use high-standard farmland?
Guo Yongtian pointed out at the meeting that high-standard farmland is "three-part construction and seven-part management".
"For the high-standard farmland we have built, we must not only improve the management and protection system of farmland facilities, but also classify the built high-standard farmland as permanent basic farmland, and implement special protection to ensure the good use of fertile land. Over the years, we have attached great importance to high standards. The management and protection work of farmland construction, first, guide local governments to continuously improve the management and protection system. Now many localities have issued management methods for management and protection, clarifying relevant policy requirements."
Second, guide local governments to explore multiple financing mechanisms for management and protection.
Local governments have paid a little bit through the government, the business entity has a little bit, and the water and electricity price reform can raise a little bit. Various methods have been explored to raise management and protection funds.
Third, explore multiple modes of management and protection.
Some places implement the self-management model of the business entity, some places implement the method of entrusting professional institutions to manage according to local conditions, and some places adopt the method of purchasing engineering facility insurance, or through the government purchasing services, etc., to explore different methods. The management and protection model has achieved good results.
He pointed out that the next step is to strengthen the management and protection of high-standard farmland construction from two aspects.
The first aspect is to further improve the management and protection of engineering facilities to ensure the healthy operation of engineering facilities.
One is to improve the management and protection mechanism.
Project construction and engineering management and protection mechanisms should be designed, constructed, and implemented simultaneously to mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties.
The second is to ensure the implementation of management and protection funds.
Continue to promote the exploration of a variety of different ways to raise management and protection funds.
The third is to implement management and protection responsibilities.
Local governments, especially county and township-level governments, must earnestly assume the responsibility of infrastructure management and protection, and at the same time strengthen the management and protection responsibilities of business entities, and also give full play to the guidance and service role of professionals and professional social organizations.
In the second aspect, we must insist on strict management in accordance with the law to achieve good land and good use.
This is an important principle put forward in the "Planning".
It is necessary to strictly implement the decision and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on curbing the non-agriculturalization of cultivated land and preventing the non-grainization of cultivated land, and ensure that the high-standard farmland built is mainly used for grain, especially ration production.
The first is to strictly prevent the occupation of high-standard farmland, and to strictly approve the occupation of the land that really needs to be occupied in accordance with the law.
For those that have been approved in accordance with the law, supplementary construction shall be carried out to ensure that the quantity and quality of high-standard farmland are not reduced.
The second is to improve the benefit compensation mechanism and grain-growing incentive policies in the main producing areas, to ensure that farmers get good benefits from growing grain, and to guide business entities to focus on high-standard farmland for grain production.
The third is to explore a reasonable farming system, implement the combination of land use and raise land, strengthen follow-up fertilization, and prevent the decline of soil fertility.
Fourth, it is strictly forbidden to discharge substandard sewage into farmland, and it is strictly forbidden to dump domestic garbage and industrial waste into high-standard farmland.
"In the next step, we will continue to do a good job in farmland management and protection with relevant departments, and continue to consolidate the foundation of national food security." Guo Yongtian said.