Jin Guanping: Farmland protection needs to mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties to protect | Farmland | enthusiasm
The second meeting of the Central Committee of Finance and Economics proposed to mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers and local governments to protect arable land and cultivate grain, establish a mechanism for ensuring the income of grain farmers, develop various forms of moderate scale operations, establish a mechanism for compensating the interests of major grain producing areas, and form a joint force for protecting arable land in major grain producing areas, major sales areas, and production sales balance areas.
As is well known, the comparative efficiency of planting industry is low; In the planting industry, compared to economic crops, the benefits of growing grain are lower, which may lead to two situations: firstly, for farmers, when faced with many choices such as going out to work and planting economic crops, their willingness to grow grain decreases, leading to abandonment of farmland in some areas. This phenomenon is more prominent in economically developed areas such as coastal areas. Secondly, for the government, although food security is related to the macro situation, it has not played a significant role in local economic growth until a hard constraint is formed. Some local governments, under the guidance of GDP only thinking, have not fully recognized the responsibility and obligation of ensuring food security in all regions, and the string of food security has been relaxed.
At the macro level, the importance of farmland protection is beyond doubt. The protection of arable land is a national matter that concerns the livelihoods of over 1.4 billion people. In the current volatile external situation, with some countries restricting grain exports, it is urgent to strengthen the protection of arable land, ensure basic self-sufficiency of grains, and absolute food security.
Balancing development and security, enhancing awareness of potential risks, and being vigilant in times of peace and security are major principles of our party's governance. This requires us to fully recognize the complexity of reality, and to think and solve problems with systematic, global, and dialectical thinking. The same applies to the issue of farmland protection. How to coordinate food security and increase farmers' income; How to ensure the red line of farmland while respecting the wishes of farmers; How to give full play to the decisive role of the market while better leveraging the role of the government in land resource allocation. All of these require us to take hard measures to strengthen the protection of arable land and mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers and local governments to protect arable land to a greater extent.
Recently, the food security legislation that has been brewing for more than 10 years has entered the legislative review process. The draft of the Food Security Law has undergone initial deliberation at the third meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress and has recently been publicly solicited for comments. This year is also the first year for China to implement the Party and government's joint responsibility for farmland protection. Governments at all levels will sign farmland protection responsibility agreements step by step, and breaking through the red line of farmland will implement a one vote veto. These are all hard measures to strengthen the protection of arable land. Under policy promotion, China has initially curbed the continuous decline in the total amount of arable land. However, it is also necessary to fully recognize that there is still a conflict of "non grain" and "non agricultural" utilization of arable land with higher economic benefits.
Therefore, the Central Financial and Economic Commission meeting proposed to take measures to mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers and local governments to protect arable land, which is a pragmatic move that respects laws and guides according to the situation. Through economic rewards and punishments, establish a mechanism for ensuring the income of grain farmers, establish a compensation mechanism for the interests of major grain producing areas, and ultimately form a joint force for farmland protection.
