On April 22, according to the "China Three Rural Release", a number of growers in Kailu County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, reported that some town and village cadres prevented them from farming in the fields, and they had to pay money for farming, and they had signed land contracts before.
Video reported by the media shows that a deputy director of the village committee of Shuangsheng Village, Jianhua Township, Kailu County, stopped farmers from spring ploughing, saying: "What can I do if 110 comes, I will collect money if I am asked to collect money." ”
In addition, there are town cadres in Jianhua Town who prevent farmers from cultivating land and strongly demand that cars be detained. Ji Yunhao, deputy secretary of the town's party committee and member of the political and legal committee, said in the report: "Don't look for me, I don't know the law!"
On the 23rd, the Kailu County Government Office issued a circular, announcing the investigation and verification, and the relevant town and village cadres have been punished. The content of the circular is as follows:
1. On the issue of "strange supplementary contracting fees". The background of the problems reflected in the report is that Kailu County, as a pilot unit for the efficient use of new cultivated land determined by the superiors, has carried out pilot work on the efficient use of cultivated land newly increased by the "three land adjustments" compared with the "second land adjustments". The "supplementary contracting fee" mentioned in the report is one of the disposal methods adopted in the pilot work of efficient use of new cultivated land in Kailu County, that is, the paid use fee collected by the village collective on the new cultivated land.
2. On the issue of "blocking and not allowing farming". During the implementation of the pilot project in Shuangsheng Village, Jianhua Town, some large farmers of newly added cultivated land were unwilling to pay fees, which led to the psychology of comparison among farmers who had already paid fees, which led to the behavior of hindering land ploughing. At present, through the coordination and resolution of the county, town and village levels, the people of the village have agreed to take the form of litigation to claim their rights and interests, resolve contradictions, and ensure that there are no more behaviors that hinder land ploughing and land preparation, delay agricultural time, etc.
3. On the issue of the arrogant attitude and rude language of individual grassroots cadres toward the masses. In view of the problems reflected in the report that some grassroots cadres have an arrogant attitude toward the masses, speak rudely, and have seriously improper work methods, the Kailu County Party Committee has dismissed the deputy secretary of the town's party committee from his post and given him an intra-party warning by the county discipline inspection commission and supervision committee; the county discipline inspection commission and supervision committee have given serious intra-party warnings to the secretary of the village's party branch and deputy director of the village committee. Investigations into possible other disciplinary violations are also ongoing.
Image source: "Kailu Rong Media" WeChat public account
According to the website of the People's Government of Kailu County, Kailu County means to develop the "Three Lu" (Alu Korqin Banner, Zalut Left and Right Two Banners) of the Zhemeng. The total area of the region is 4,488 square kilometers, with 12 towns (fields) and 245 administrative villages (branches) under its jurisdiction, with a permanent population of 310,000.
Kailu County is a national demonstration county of high-efficiency and characteristic agriculture, a national demonstration county of green corn with high yield and high efficiency, a national advanced county of farmland and water conservancy construction, a national advanced county of grain production, a national county of agricultural product quality and safety, a national demonstration county of "four good rural roads", the largest red pepper production and distribution center in northern China, a national demonstration area for the quality and safety of red pepper export products, and enjoys the reputation of "the capital of red pepper in China".
In 2022, the county's GDP will reach 14.65 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.7%, the investment in fixed assets of more than 5 million yuan will reach 4.612 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 33.1%, the total retail sales of consumer goods will reach 2.59 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.9%, the general public budget revenue will reach 683 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 117.8%, and the per capita disposable income of urban and rural permanent residents will reach 36,825 yuan and 22,713 yuan respectively, an increase of 6.1% year-on-year. 9％。
Where does the "supplementary contracting fee" for cultivated land come from in the public opinion of Kailu County?
Experts interpret the ins and outs
In the incident of spring ploughing of growers in Shuangsheng Village, Jianhua Town, Kailu County, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, who were prevented by town and village cadres, the village cadres said that the growers had to pay a "supplementary contract fee" of 200 yuan per mu, so disputes arose, and there was a situation of rudely preventing the spring ploughing of growers.
It is understood that in this case, in 2004, the growers contracted 5,600 mu of land in Shuangsheng Village, of which 110 mu were cultivated land, and the rest were saline-alkali land and grassland.
At around 6 p.m. on April 23, Kailu County issued a circular: "The strange 'supplementary contracting fee' is one of the disposal methods adopted by the pilot work of efficient use of new cultivated land in Kailu County, that is, the paid use fee charged by the village collective for the new cultivated land. ”
According to the report, when the growers contracted the land, the land was overgrown with wild grass, there were many waterlogged potholes, and there was saline land, and in the past 20 years, the contractor has converted the land into arable land. In the third national land survey, the land was identified as cultivated land.
This is also the source of the "new arable land" in the incident. How should this new cultivated land be defined, how should it be managed, and is the "supplementary contract fee" reasonable?
In this regard, Li Baoguo, dean of the School of Land Science of China Agricultural University, said in an interview with reporters, "The third national land survey is an important node in the changes in the area of cultivated land in the mainland. In the past, there were many farmlands cultivated by farmers or enterprises themselves, but they were not counted, and in a sense, they were 'black households' in cultivated land, which can be called 'black land'. In the third national land survey, all these 'black lands' were identified as part of the newly added cultivated land. But this also raises many questions, such as whether the previous reclamation is legal, and how to manage the farmland after the 'regularization'?"
Li Baoguo said that similar new cultivated land is not an isolated case in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia, but is widespread, while the cultivated land in the south is relatively decreasing.
Li Baoguo introduced, "The mainland has less land and more people, and the cultivated land area is tight, it seems that the new cultivated land is a good thing, this kind of thinking will be common to ordinary people, but it is not completely in line with the actual situation, for example, some may be really good after reclamation, but there are also places, the environment is relatively fragile, once reclaimed, the protection of vegetation is lost, and the soil erosion is very fast. In particular, some semi-arid areas and desertification-prone areas should pay more attention to this problem. ”
"Generally speaking, the newly added cultivated land will be assigned to the village collective, as the industry of the village collective, and also for the development of the village collective economy. In this case, the village collectives may contract the new farmland to those who are willing to cultivate it for a fee, and obtain collective income," Li Baoguo said. ”
Source: China Sannong Release, Kailu County People's Government website, National Business Daily, Beijing News