Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Making Every Effort to Enhance the Quality of High-Standard Farmland Construction

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2024-08-30

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the National Field Conference on Farmland Construction was held on the 28th in Bayannur City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The conference emphasized the need to firmly shoulder the political responsibility for advancing high-standard farmland construction, rigorously conduct “look-back” reviews of project quality and targeted rectification campaigns, and make every effort to enhance engineering standards, thereby safeguarding and developing arable land—the very foundation of food security—and laying a solid groundwork for ensuring national food security and building a strong agricultural nation.

In recent years, China has achieved significant progress in building high-standard farmland, effectively enhancing agriculture’s capacity to withstand and mitigate disasters and providing crucial support for national food security. The meeting emphasized that engineering quality is the lifeline of high-standard farmland construction. Guided by problem‑solving, it is necessary to conduct “look‑back” reviews of project quality and carry out targeted rectification campaigns to address existing issues and resolutely prevent new problems from arising. Specialized teams should be dispatched to the fields and sites to thoroughly investigate all issues, establish detailed records for each case, assign responsibilities at every level, and ensure timely corrective actions within set deadlines. A long‑term quality‑supervision mechanism must be established and improved, with regular random inspections of project quality, strengthened management of project bidding, construction, and supervision, and enhanced safeguards for investment and financial oversight. Mechanisms for the construction, acceptance, and maintenance of high‑standard farmland should be refined, focusing on planning and design as the foundational stage; standards for such construction should be tailored to local conditions, guiding regions in developing detailed implementation plans. The acceptance system, work procedures, and technical standards should be further improved, with rigorous controls at the acceptance stage. In the early phases of high‑standard farmland development, maintenance mechanisms should be planned in parallel, funding for maintenance secured through multiple channels, innovative maintenance practices adopted, and farmers and new types of agricultural operators actively encouraged to participate in both construction and ongoing upkeep. Efforts should be accelerated to establish a quality‑supervision and inspection system for farmland‑construction projects, bolstering personnel deployment and financial support while refining mechanisms for public participation in oversight.

The meeting called for the coordinated advancement of key annual tasks in farmland development, with a strong focus on implementing the year’s targets for high-standard farmland construction. It also urged accelerating the third nationwide soil survey, improving and refining the acceptance mechanism for supplementary arable land quality, and vigorously carrying out projects to protect black soils, pilot initiatives to rehabilitate and upgrade saline‑alkali farmland, and address soil acidification, while promoting measures to enhance soil organic matter. Furthermore, it emphasized safeguarding farmers’ interests and respecting their wishes, stressing that land transfer should not be made a precondition for high-standard farmland development. The work must strike an appropriate balance among timing, scale, and effectiveness, ensuring that high-standard farmland truly becomes a project that benefits the people, enriches them, and wins their support. (Reporter Chen Chen)

[Editor-in-charge: Han Pan]

Source: Guangming Daily

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