Regulations on returning farmland to forests

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in order to standardize the activities of returning farmland to forests, protect the legitimate rights and interests of those who return farmland to forests, consolidate the achievements of returning farmland to forests, optimize the rural industrial structure and improve the ecological environment. Article 2 These Regulations shall apply to the activities of returning farmland to forests within the planning scope approved by the State Council. Article 3 People's governments at all levels shall strictly implement the policies and measures of "returning farmland to forests, closing hillsides to facilitate afforestation, substituting food for relief, and contracting by individuals". Fourth, returning farmland to forests must adhere to ecological priority. Returning farmland to forests should be combined with adjusting rural industrial structure, developing rural economy, preventing soil erosion, protecting and building basic farmland, increasing grain yield per unit area, strengthening rural energy construction and implementing ecological migration. Fifth returning farmland to forests should follow the following principles:

(a) overall planning, step-by-step implementation, focusing on key points and paying attention to practical results;

(two) the combination of policy guidance and farmers' voluntary returning farmland, who returns farmland, who afforestation, who management, who benefits;

(three) follow the laws of nature, adjust measures to local conditions, forest suitable, grass suitable, comprehensive management;

(4) Pay equal attention to construction and protection, and prevent damage while managing;

(5) Gradually improve the living conditions of those returning farmland to forests. Sixth the State Council Western Development Agency is responsible for the comprehensive coordination of the work of returning farmland to forests, organizing relevant departments to study and formulate relevant policies and measures for returning farmland to forests, and organizing and coordinating the implementation of the overall plan for returning farmland to forests; The forestry administrative department of the State Council is responsible for compiling the overall plan and annual plan of returning farmland to forests, implementing the national plan of returning farmland to forests, and guiding, supervising and inspecting the work of returning farmland to forests; The development planning department of the State Council, jointly with the relevant departments, is responsible for the review of the overall plan of returning farmland to forests, the summary of the plan, the preparation and comprehensive balance of the annual plan for infrastructure construction; The competent financial department of the State Council is responsible for the arrangement, supervision and management of the central financial subsidy funds for returning farmland to forests; The administrative department of agriculture of the State Council is responsible for the planning, compilation, technical guidance, supervision and inspection of returning farmland to grassland and the restoration of natural grassland; The water administrative department of the State Council is responsible for the technical guidance, supervision and inspection of small watershed management, soil and water conservation and other related work in the area of returning farmland to forests and grasslands; The administrative department of grain in the State Council is responsible for coordinating and adjusting grain sources.

The forestry, planning, finance, agriculture, water conservancy, grain and other departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level shall, under the unified leadership of the people's governments at the corresponding levels, be responsible for the relevant work of returning farmland to forests in accordance with these regulations and the division of responsibilities stipulated in these regulations. Article 7 The State implements the responsibility system of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government for returning farmland to forests. The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall organize relevant departments to take measures to ensure that the central subsidy funds for returning farmland to forests are earmarked, organize the transportation and supply of subsidized grain, strengthen the audit of returning farmland to forests, complete the tasks of returning farmland to forests assigned by the state on schedule, implement the target responsibilities step by step, sign letters of responsibility, and realize the goal of returning farmland to forests. Eighth returning farmland to forests to implement the target responsibility system.

The relevant departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level shall sign a letter of responsibility with the person in charge of the project of returning farmland to forests and the technical person in charge to clarify the responsibilities. Article 9 The state supports the research and popularization of the application technology of returning farmland to forests, and improves the scientific and technological level of returning farmland to forests. Tenth relevant departments of the State Council and local people's governments at all levels shall organize publicity and education on the activities of returning farmland to forests, and enhance citizens' awareness of ecological construction and protection.

Units and individuals that have made remarkable achievements in the work of returning farmland to forests shall be commended and rewarded by relevant departments of the State Council and local people's governments at all levels. Eleventh any unit or individual has the right to report and accuse the destruction of returning farmland to forests.

After receiving reports and complaints, the relevant people's governments and their relevant departments shall promptly deal with them. Twelfth audit institutions at all levels should strengthen the audit and supervision of the use of funds and food subsidies for returning farmland to forests. Chapter II Planning and Planning Article 13 Returning farmland to forests shall be planned as a whole.

The overall plan for returning farmland to forests is compiled by the forestry administrative department of the State Council, coordinated by the the State Council Western Development Bureau, reviewed by the the State Council Development Planning Department, and submitted to the State Council for approval and implementation.

The forestry administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, in accordance with the overall plan for returning farmland to forests, work out the plan for returning farmland to forests in their respective administrative areas in conjunction with relevant departments, which shall be approved by the people's governments at the corresponding levels and reported to the relevant departments of the State Council for the record. Article 14 The plan for returning farmland to forests shall include the following main contents:

Scope, layout and focus;

(2) The year, objectives and tasks;

(3) Investment calculation and sources of funds;

(4) Benefit analysis and evaluation;

⑤ Safeguards. Fifteenth the following cultivated land should be included in the plan of returning farmland to forests, and according to the needs of ecological construction and national financial resources, the implementation of returning farmland to forests in a planned way:

(1) Serious soil erosion;

(2) Serious desertification, salinization and rocky desertification;

(3) The ecological status is important, and the grain output is low and unstable.

In the planning of returning farmland to forests, priority should be given to the cultivated land on steep slopes at the source of rivers and its banks, around lakes and reservoirs, cultivated land in ecologically important areas such as soil erosion and serious sandstorm damage. Sixteenth cultivated land within the scope of basic farmland protection and good production conditions, the actual grain output exceeds the national grain subsidy standard for returning farmland to forests and will not cause soil erosion, and shall not be included in the plan of returning farmland to forests; However, due to the special needs of ecological construction, with the approval of the State Council and adjustment according to the procedures stipulated by relevant laws and administrative regulations, the scope of basic farmland protection can be included in the plan of returning farmland to forests.

When making the plan of returning farmland to forests, we should consider the long-term livelihood needs of farmers who have returned farmland.