Heilongjiang promotes building food security barriers

Special supervision and compaction of black soil protection responsibility

　　Our reporter Xu Fan

　　In the Heilongjiang exhibition area of ​​the "Strive for a New Era" theme achievement exhibition, in the exhibition images of Wuchang rice, the grains of crystal clear and plump rice with rice flowers attracted people who came to visit to stop and watch.

　　The black soil is suitable for farming and is known as "the giant panda in the cultivated land".

Heilongjiang Province is located in the core area of ​​black soil in Northeast China, with an area of ​​257.9 million mu of cultivated land, of which 156 million mu is typical black soil cultivated land, accounting for 56.1% of the typical black soil area in Northeast China. It is a "stabilizer" and "ballast stone" to ensure food security.

　　The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that it is necessary to consolidate the foundation of food security in an all-round way, fully implement the responsibility of the party and the government for food security, and firmly guard the red line of 1.8 billion mu of arable land.

Heilongjiang Provincial Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Organs insist that wherever the Party Central Committee makes decisions and deployments, political supervision will follow up. They regard the protection of black land as an important project to ensure food security, the "big country", and resolutely guard the black land with effective supervision. The red line bottom line of protection.

　　Since May 2022, discipline inspection and supervision agencies at all levels in the province have carried out special supervision on black soil protection.

At the beginning of the special supervision, disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies at all levels urged local party committees, governments and relevant functional departments to focus on outstanding problems based on regional characteristics and functional responsibilities, and comprehensively carry out self-inspection and self-correction of black soil protection.

　　"Through self-inspection and self-correction, we found a total of 174 problems such as building houses in violation of regulations, occupying cultivated land, and not appropriating funds according to the schedule. We have pushed relevant departments to carry out comprehensive rectification and held 63 relevant responsible persons accountable. Responsibility.” said the relevant person in charge of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision.

　　Since the launch of the special supervision, the Heilongjiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has urged the party committees at the city and county levels to increase leadership, organization, coordination, supervision and management of black soil protection, and promote the inclusion of black soil protection into the annual work assessment and cultivated land protection responsibility objectives, and earnestly Promote the fulfillment of responsibilities.

At the same time, further consolidate the regulatory responsibilities of functional departments at all levels, and promote the implementation of various policies and measures for black soil protection.

　　The "Regulations on the Protection and Utilization of Black Land in Heilongjiang Province" officially implemented on March 1, 2022, has promoted the protection and utilization of black land in the province into a legal track.

The Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection included the implementation of supervision and inspection regulations into the key content of special supervision, and formed a joint supervision team with provincial departments to discuss the implementation of party and government responsibilities for black land protection, investigation and punishment of cases of illegal occupation and destruction of black land, black land Carry out supervision and inspection on the implementation of protection projects.

The supervisor found that some counties (cities) had problems such as not being able to allocate funds in a timely manner and temporarily occupying the project funds for the protection and utilization of black land for other expenditures.

　　"We urge the discipline inspection and supervision agencies at the city and county levels to adhere to problem orientation, goal orientation, and effect orientation, follow up and supervise with a list, seriously investigate and rectify outstanding problems in the protection of black land, and strictly pursue accountability in accordance with discipline and law." Province. The responsible comrade of the Fifth Supervision and Inspection Office of the Commission for Discipline Inspection said.

　　In response to problems such as the slow progress of the black soil protection project discovered during the supervision, the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection recently conducted a supervisory return visit to 5 provincial departments including the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs to further supervise the implementation of responsibilities, check the rectification situation, and see the effectiveness of governance.

Under the supervision and promotion of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs established a special team for rectification and supervision of black soil protection special supervision issues to promote the rectification of problems; Protect the province's forest resources through a series of special law enforcement actions such as the "Green Guard" action and crack down on deforestation and planting ginseng; the Provincial Department of Water Resources has launched a special action on erosion ditch control to implement conservation measures such as stripping and protection of topsoil in black soil areas, and the province's water and soil loss The situation presents a situation of "double decline" in area intensity.

　　Under the leadership of the above, the discipline inspection and supervision agencies at all levels in Heilongjiang Province, based on their functions and responsibilities, will seriously investigate the responsibility of the responsible persons of the relevant units in the protection of black land, such as ineffective performance of duties, lax supervision, negligence of duty, perfunctory prevarication, and falsification. Concentrate on rectifying outstanding problems such as insufficient implementation of laws and regulations on black soil protection in various localities and departments, illegal occupation of black soil farmland, illegal mining of black soil, and lax supervision of black soil protection projects, and promote special supervision to achieve practical results through problem rectification and case investigation.

Up to now, 103 problems have been investigated and dealt with by the province's discipline inspection and supervision agencies, and 79 people have been punished by party discipline and government affairs.

　　In order to continue to consolidate the results of special supervision and implement the "second half of the article", the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision urged relevant departments directly under the provincial government to improve the total amount of cultivated land control, quality monitoring, and pollution prevention and control supervision mechanisms in accordance with the Black Soil Protection Law and the Black Soil Farmland Protection Regulations. , to form a joint regulatory force, make up for shortcomings in the system, and plug regulatory loopholes.

　　"Protecting the black land is to ensure that the status of the ballast stone of national food security is not shaken. After the special supervision is over, we will continue to pay close attention to the law of power operation and the risk points of clean government in black land protection, and further promote the institutionalization, normalization and precision of daily supervision. Transformation, and resolutely guard the 'China's Great Granary' with strong supervision." The relevant person in charge of the Heilongjiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision said.

(China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News)