What Is Land Remediation?

Land remediation means that within a certain area, according to the goals and uses determined by the overall land use planning, urban planning, and special land remediation planning, administrative, economic, and legal measures are used to apply engineering construction measures to the land, water, and roads. , Forests, villages implement comprehensive management and development, carry out in-depth development of improper allocation, unreasonable use, and scattered, idle, underutilized rural residential land, improve intensive land use and output rate, improve production and living The process of conditions and ecological environment is essentially the rational organization of land use. Land remediation in a broad sense includes land consolidation, land reclamation, and land development.

Land improvement

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Land remediation means that within a certain area, according to the goals and uses determined by the overall land use planning, urban planning, and special land remediation planning, administrative, economic, and legal measures are used to apply engineering construction measures to the land, water, and roads. , Forests, villages implement comprehensive management and development, carry out in-depth development of improper allocation, unreasonable use, and scattered, idle, underutilized rural residential land, improve intensive land use and output rate, improve production and living The process of conditions and ecological environment is essentially the rational organization of land use. Land remediation in a broad sense includes land consolidation, land reclamation, and land development.

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Land improvement

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In March 2003, the National Land Development and Consolidation Plan (2001-2010) issued by the Ministry of Land and Resources included

The "Land Management Law" implemented by China in 1999 proposed "the state encourages land consolidation", and many concepts have emerged successively, such as land development and consolidation, land consolidation and reclamation development, land consolidation and reclamation, land improvement,

Land remediation planning is the main special land use planning and an important basis for scientifically guiding land remediation work. At the level, it includes national land remediation plans, provincial and municipal land remediation plans, and county land remediation plans.

On March 16, 2012, the State Council formally approved the "National Land Remediation Plan (2011-2015)" (Guo Han [2012] No. 23). By 2015, the "Plan" will build a high standard of 400 million mu of drought and flood protection throughout the country. Farmland, 24 million mu of arable land will be replenished through farmland improvement, development of suitable cultivated reserve land and reclamation of damaged land, which will further consolidate the foundation of agricultural modernization; actively and steadily promote the improvement of village land, strictly regulate the increase and decrease of urban and rural construction land, and pilot projects to remediate rural scattered and abandoned 4.5 million mu of idle, inefficient and inefficient construction land, optimize the layout and structure of urban and rural construction land; comprehensively promote the transformation of old towns, old factories and mines, and the secondary development of urban land, and effectively improve the level of intensive land use; comprehensively promote the production and construction of newly damaged land Land reclamation and natural disasters have promptly reclaimed land, and the rate of reclamation of damaged land left over from history has reached more than 35% to further protect and improve the ecological environment and ensure sustainable land use.

I. Promoting the construction of a new socialist countryside

With the continuous enhancement of China's overall national strength, China's current economic and social development has entered a new stage of coordinating urban and rural development, implementing the policy of industrial nurturing agriculture and urban support for rural areas, and changing the backwardness of rural areas. The key to achieving this goal is to strengthen the construction of agricultural facilities, improve the overall agricultural production capacity, and promote the construction of modern agriculture; increase agricultural investment and strive to increase farmers' income.

Farmland consolidation in China is mainly the comprehensive improvement of fields, water, roads, forests, and villages. Land development and improvement are closely related to the construction of new countryside. Many years of practice have proved that through the improvement of farmland, especially basic farmland, and strengthening the construction of farmland infrastructure, it can effectively improve agricultural production conditions, increase farmland production capacity, and reduce agricultural production costs; it can effectively improve the traditional agricultural land use pattern and expand the scale of operations , Promote agricultural efficiency and increase farmers 'income; by transforming old villages and merging rural settlements, it can effectively change the appearance of rural areas and improve farmers' living standards and quality of life.

Protecting Arable Land Resources and Ensuring National Food Security

Cultivated land is the first resource for food production. To solve China's food problems, we must base ourselves on domestic self-sufficiency. With the population growth and improvement of living standards, China's food demand will continue to increase, and the pressure to protect arable land and ensure national food security will become increasingly severe. In order to effectively control the cultivated land and reduce excessive conditions, and ensure food security, a certain amount and quality of cultivated land must be stabilized, especially

"Circular of the State Council on Strictly Regulating the Pilot Projects of Increasing and Decreasing the Land for Urban and Rural Construction and Effectively Doing a Good Job in Rural Land Remediation" (Guo Fa [2010] No. 47) makes clear the requirements for effectively doing a good job in rural land remediation: to promote agricultural modernization and urban-rural coordination Development-oriented, with the goal of increasing basic and high-yield stable farmland and improving rural production and living conditions, and practically protecting farmers' rights and interests as the starting point.

Among them, it is particularly emphasized that the protection of peasants 'rights and interests must always be given top priority, the peasants' wishes are fully respected, and the masses are willing to act in accordance with local conditions, do what they can, and push according to law. It is necessary to safeguard the dominant position of farmers and rural collective economic organizations in accordance with the law, and protect the farmers' right to information, participation and benefit. Free up

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1 In order to improve the efficiency of the examination and approval of rural land improvement projects, speed up the implementation of projects, and promote the construction of beautiful villages, these measures are formulated in accordance with relevant laws, regulations and policies and with reference to the "Administrative Licensing Law of the People's Republic of China".

Article 2 These measures apply to rural land improvement projects that require provincial approval.

Article 3 The comprehensive examination and approval of rural land improvement projects refers to the approval of one or more of the following items at the same time when examining land consolidation, reclamation or development projects in a rural land improvement project area:

(1) Implementation plan linked to increase or decrease of urban and rural construction land or conversion of agricultural land;

(2) Comprehensive management plan of the mine geological environment (coal mining subsidence land);

(3) Evacuation and relocation projects for geological disasters;

(4) Other matters suitable for simultaneous examination and approval.

Article 4 Matters included in the comprehensive examination and approval of rural land improvement shall be subject to unified application, unified acceptance, unified approval, and unified acceptance.

Article 5 The comprehensive examination and approval of rural land improvement projects is led by the Farmland Protection Division, the Planning Division, the Land Acquisition Management Division, the Geological Environment Division, the Resource Recovery and Improvement Division, and other relevant offices, and shall cooperate with each other to complete the examination and approval work in accordance with their respective duties.

Chapter II Project Application

Article 6 The rural land remediation project determined by the Provincial Department of Land and Resources to carry out preliminary work and feasibility studies shall be organized by the municipal, county (city, district) land and resources administrative department to prepare a rural land remediation project plan.

In addition to the land consolidation, reclamation, or development plan (feasibility study report), the rural land improvement project plan should also include other matters that require simultaneous approval. Each independent examination and approval plan shall be prepared separately in chapters.

The contents of the rural land improvement project plan shall comply with the management regulations, technical regulations, and approval requirements of the various approval matters involved.

Article 7 If the approval matters involved in the rural land improvement project plan need to be applied in the name of the government in accordance with the law, the rural land improvement project plan shall be submitted for approval after being approved by the government at the same level. Those who do not need to apply in the name of the government shall be submitted for approval by the competent department of land and resources administration.

Before submitting a rural land improvement project plan prepared by a county (city, district) for approval, it must be reviewed and approved by the district-based municipal government or the competent land and resources administration department.

Article 8 The window of the Department of Land and Resources of the Provincial Government Service Center (hereinafter referred to as the Office of Government Affairs Service) uniformly accepts applications for rural land improvement projects. The applicant shall submit a project application to the government service window (the application shall specify the types of specific approval items involved), the rural land improvement project plan, and other materials that need to be submitted.

The department's administrative service window will conduct a formal examination of the submitted materials. If the requirements are met, they will be accepted.

Article 9 The applicant shall submit relevant application materials to the provincial finance department upon request.

Chapter III Project Approval

Article 10 After the application is accepted, the administrative service window of the department will hand over the acceptance materials to the Cultivated Land Protection Division for processing.

Article 11 The Cultivated Land Protection Division shall conduct a preliminary review of the received materials. If they meet the requirements for approval, they shall submit the relevant materials to the relevant divisions within 3 working days, and the relevant divisions shall review the relevant matters according to the division of responsibilities. And submit a review opinion within 10 working days.

If it does not meet the examination and approval requirements, the Cultivated Land Protection Office shall return it to the government service window and explain the reason within 3 working days. If it can be solved through the correction materials, the written materials and time requirements shall be notified in writing.

Article 12 Where on-site investigation is required, the Cultivated Land Protection Division shall organize relevant departments to conduct joint investigations. Counties (cities, districts) projects may entrust the municipal land and resources administrative department with districts to conduct surveys.

Where a municipal land and resources administrative department with a district is entrusted to conduct a survey, the survey work may be carried out before the rural land improvement project is submitted for approval, and the survey materials will be provided together with the approved materials.

Article 13 If it is necessary to organize expert review and argumentation, the Cultivated Land Protection Division shall organize a comprehensive review with the relevant divisions participating.

Article 14 The departments involved in the examination and approval shall submit written review opinions on the examination and approval matters for which they are responsible, and submit them to the Cultivated Land Protection Department after signing by the person in charge of the department.

Article 15 After examination, if the approval matters involved in the rural land improvement plan meet the approval conditions, the leaders of the report office of the Farmland Protection Division shall sign the approval opinions. Among them, matters that are approved by the provincial government shall be reported to the provincial government for approval; matters that require the signature of the provincial finance department shall be sent to the provincial finance department for signature.

Article 16 After the rural land remediation plan is approved, the provincial land and resources department will produce a unified land remediation plan approval document, specifying the approved items and requirements. The documents approved by the provincial government, and the documents jointly approved by the Provincial Department of Land and Resources and the Provincial Department of Finance are attached as attachments.

Article 17 The approval document of the rural land improvement plan shall be delivered to the applicant through the government service approval window.

Article 18 After approval of the rural land improvement plan, it shall not be changed in principle. If it is really necessary to change, it is necessary to re-examine and approve the procedures in accordance with these measures.

Article 19 The time limit for examining and approving rural land improvement programs is 25 working days. The time for making corrections, on-site surveys, expert evaluations, submitting to the provincial government for approval, and signing to the Provincial Finance Department for countersignature does not count towards the time limit for approval.

Chapter IV Post-approval Management

Article 20 After approval of the rural land improvement plan, the municipal, county (city, district) land and resources administrative department shall handle the planning, design, and budget of land consolidation, reclamation, or development projects in accordance with the Measures for the Administration of Land Consolidation, Reclamation, and Development Projects The plan is issued and announced after the review and approval by the Provincial Department of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Finance.

Article 21 The municipal, county (city, district) land and resources administrative department shall, in accordance with the approved rural land remediation plan and project planning and design, implement the projects involved in land remediation in accordance with the law, and report the implementation status to the province regularly in accordance with relevant regulations. Department of Land and Resources.

Article 22 The Cultivated Land Protection Division may, according to the needs of management, organize the relevant divisions to conduct a joint inspection of the implementation of the project.

Article 23 After the completion of the rural land improvement project, the Cultivated Land Protection Division will organize relevant departments to conduct joint inspection and acceptance of the project. If a single project is completed ahead of time, the individual project may be subject to acceptance upon application by the relevant city, county (city, district).

Chapter V Supplementary Provisions

Article 24 The report materials and specific approval procedures required for the comprehensive examination and approval of rural land improvement projects shall be formulated by the Cultivated Land Protection Division in conjunction with relevant departments.

Article 25 Examination and approval of a single land consolidation, reclamation or development project shall be handled in accordance with the original regulations.

Article 26 These Measures shall be implemented as of January 1, 2013.

The Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Finance evaluated the construction of 9 major land remediation projects and 10 land remediation demonstration provinces. The results show that major projects and demonstration provinces have made good progress in general, with a total of 5.18 million acres of newly added arable land and more than 34 million acres of basic farmland of high standards. Achieved results in various aspects, such as building an agricultural support platform. According to estimates, the average cultivated land area in the project area increased by 0.69 mu, the average yield per mu increased by more than 160 kg, and the per capita income increased by more than 590 yuan.

Nine major projects for land improvement are under construction, with a construction scale of 19.80 million mu, an additional 3.38 million mu of arable land, and an investment of 31.5 billion yuan, which has completed 60% of the project construction tasks. The construction scale of 10 demonstration provinces is 29.54 million mu. About 1.8 million mu of cultivated land was added, and the central and local governments invested 56.5 billion yuan.

Major projects and the construction of demonstration provinces highlight the effectiveness of four aspects: First, promote the incremental improvement of cultivated land and effectively protect the red line of cultivated land. While increasing the amount of cultivated land, the construction of farmland infrastructure has been strengthened, the "last mile" problem of farmland irrigation has been better solved, the centralized and continuous patching of cultivated land has been achieved, and the scale and intensive use of land have been improved. It has laid a good material foundation for mechanization, mechanization and agricultural modernization, and provided an important basic guarantee for national food security.

The second is to improve rural production and living conditions and increase farmers' income. By comprehensively promoting the improvement of farmland, water, roads, forests and villages, it has strengthened rural infrastructure construction and public service facilities, improved rural production and living conditions and the overall environment, promoted new rural construction and coordinated urban and rural development, and stimulated rural domestic demand. Reduce production costs, thereby promoting agricultural efficiency, farmers' income and rural development.

The third is to improve the ecological environment and promote the construction of ecological civilization. Major projects and the construction of demonstration provinces have adopted engineering and biological measures to strengthen the construction of farmland protection capabilities, increase the construction of the "three guarantee fields" for water conservation, soil conservation and fertilizer conservation, and strive to improve the ecological environment of the land and realize the organic integration of ecological security and food security. Combined. For example, a major project in Ningxia has renovated 56,000 mu of desert, treated 137,000 mu of saline-alkali land, and 80% of the farmland in the project area has been protected; a major project of Jilin has completed the renovation of a large area of saline-alkali land, and has achieved successive years of bumper rice harvest.

The fourth is to build a platform for supporting agriculture and give play to the comprehensive benefits of funds. Various regions have used major projects and the construction of demonstration provinces as platforms to guide the centralized investment of land- and agriculture-related funds, which has brought into play the role of capital agglomeration and amplification, cultivated stable rural economic growth points, and formed industrial nurturing agriculture and urban support for rural areas. Urban-rural integrated development platform.