Regulations of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on the Supervision and Administration of Farmers and Herders' Burden

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 In order to reduce the burden on farmers and herdsmen, protect their legitimate rights and interests, arouse their enthusiasm for production, and promote the sustained, stable and coordinated development of the economy in rural pastoral areas, these Regulations are formulated in accordance with the Agricultural Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Regulations on the Management of Farmers' Fees and Labor Services and other relevant laws and regulations, combined with the actual situation of the autonomous region. Article 2 Organs, organizations, armed forces, enterprises, institutions, township (town) and village collective economic organizations, villagers' self-governing organizations and individuals within the administrative area of this autonomous region must abide by these regulations. Article 3 The term "burden on farmers and herdsmen" as mentioned in these Regulations refers to the expenses of village (including villagers' groups) and township (town) co-ordination fees (hereinafter referred to as township co-ordination) and labor services (rural compulsory workers and labor accumulation workers) retained by farmers and herdsmen in accordance with laws, regulations and rules.

It is the obligation of farmers and herdsmen to pay taxes to the state, complete the task of ordering agricultural and sideline products, and bear the expenses and services stipulated in the preceding paragraph. In addition, it is illegal to ask farmers and herdsmen to provide funds, materials and services free of charge, and farmers and herdsmen have the right to refuse, report and accuse. Article 4 The administrative department of agriculture of the people's government at or above the county level is the competent department in charge of supervision and management of farmers and herdsmen's burdens; The township (town) people's government is the competent department in charge of the supervision and management of the burden of farmers and herdsmen in the township (town), and its daily work is the responsibility of the rural economic management institutions in the township (town).

The main responsibilities of the supervision and management departments of farmers and herdsmen at all levels:

(a) to publicize and implement the laws, regulations and policies on the management of farmers and herdsmen's burden;

(two) to supervise and inspect the implementation of laws, regulations and policies on the burden management of farmers and herdsmen;

(three) in accordance with the management authority to review the documents involving the burden of farmers and herdsmen;

(four) to supervise the use of village retention, township planning and labor services;

(five) to accept reports and complaints about the burden of farmers and herdsmen, and to investigate or assist relevant departments in handling cases involving the burden of farmers and herdsmen;

(six) the training of farmers and herdsmen burden supervision and management personnel.

Finance, price, planning, auditing and supervision departments at all levels shall, in accordance with their respective duties, perform the duties of supervision and management of farmers and herdsmen's burdens. Article 5 People's governments at all levels shall strengthen their leadership over the supervision and management of farmers and herdsmen's burdens, establish a regular inspection system, support and urge all relevant departments to conscientiously perform their duties of supervision and management of farmers and herdsmen's burdens, and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. Chapter II Village Retention, Township Overall Planning and Labor Service Article 6 The village retention and township overall planning (excluding the profits paid by rural collective-owned enterprises) paid by farmers and herdsmen directly to collective economic organizations shall be based on the statistics and calculation method of rural economic income distribution approved by the National Bureau of Statistics and formulated by the Ministry of Agriculture, and shall not exceed 5% of the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen in the previous year. Article 7 Village retention includes provident fund, public welfare fund and management fee, and the sum of the three items should generally be controlled within 3% of the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen in the previous year.

(a) provident fund, used for irrigation and water conservancy capital construction, afforestation, the purchase of productive fixed assets and the establishment of village and group collective enterprises.

The income from collective management shall not be used to offset the withdrawal share of the provident fund, but it shall be included in the provident fund management as the provident fund.

(two) public welfare fund, for five guarantees, poor subsidies, village medical and health facilities construction and other public welfare undertakings and collective welfare undertakings.

(three) management fees, including the remuneration and office expenses of village cadres and managers. The number of village group cadres who enjoy the fixed subsidy is 3-7 in each administrative village and 0-2 in each village group. The maximum fixed subsidy per person per year is 150% of the per capita net income of local farmers and herdsmen in that year. Those who are absent from work can get the allowance for lost time. The number, standards and methods of specific fixed subsidies shall be formulated by the township (town) people's government according to the village scale, economic development level and actual work needs, and reported to the supervision and management department of farmers and herdsmen's burden of the people's government at the county level for the record. Article 8 Township overall planning should generally be controlled within 2% of the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen in the previous year, and used for private assistance in rural two-level education, family planning, special care, construction of rural roads, militia training, etc., of which the funds for running schools at township and village levels (i.e. additional education fees) are not less than 50% of township overall planning. Ninth rural compulsory labor, mainly used for afforestation, grass planting, sand control, flood control, rural power grid construction, highway construction, school repair and so on. According to the standard working day, each rural labor force undertakes 5 to 10 voluntary workers throughout the year.

If it is necessary to increase the number of compulsory workers for emergency rescue and disaster relief, the local people's government shall make overall arrangements. Tenth labor accumulation workers, mainly used for farmland water conservancy capital construction and afforestation. According to the standard working day, each male labor force undertakes no more than 30 labor accumulation workers throughout the year, and the female labor force undertakes no more than 15 labor accumulation workers. Eleventh village and market town planning is mainly based on the industry and economic income of farmers and herdsmen. For planting, on the basis of distinguishing land quality and economic income of different crops, it is accrued according to contracted cultivated land area or labor force; Animal husbandry can be accrued according to the contracted area of grassland or the maximum feeding amount of livestock.

Individual industrial and commercial households and private enterprises shall pay village retention and township overall planning to their places of residence, and the extraction ratio may be higher than the proportion limit of 5% of the local per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen in the previous year, but the maximum shall not exceed 3% of their personal net income in the previous year. The specific extraction ratio shall be formulated by the people's government at the county level according to local conditions, and shall not be calculated within the quota ratio stipulated in Article 6 of these regulations.