Comprehensive land consolidation of the whole region _ planning and design of land consolidation projects _ cross regional transfer indicators _ rural revitalization solutions

From land consolidation to land consolidation, and then to comprehensive land consolidation and comprehensive land consolidation throughout the region, the connotation and extension of land consolidation have been expanding. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2017 proposed the strategy of rural revitalization, which defined the goals and tasks of the rural revitalization strategy. Against this background, comprehensive land consolidation has entered a new stage, becoming a way to ensure food security, improve the quality of the ecological environment It is an important tool to promote rural revitalization.

Comprehensive land improvement:
It is a land consolidation model with scientific planning as the premise, towns as the basic implementation unit, agricultural land consolidation, construction land consolidation and rural ecological protection and restoration as the main content, mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grass as the target, and farmland protection, intensive and economical land use, and ecological environment improvement as the core objectives.

In December 2019, the Ministry of Natural Resources issued the Notice on Carrying out the Pilot Work of Comprehensive Land Consolidation (NZF [2019] No. 194), which requires the pilot work of comprehensive land consolidation to be carried out nationwide.

Comprehensive land improvement project

Policy background

The rural revitalization strategy proposed in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is the overall plan for giving priority to the development of agriculture and rural areas in the new development stage.

June 2018

Strategic Plan for Rural Revitalization (2018-2022)

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Strategic Plan for Rural Revitalization (2018-2022), clearly proposing "major actions to implement comprehensive rural land improvement".
June 2019

Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources on Strengthening Village Planning and Promoting Rural Revitalization

The Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources on Strengthening Village Planning and Promoting Rural Revitalization (NZBF [2019] No. 35) further requires the positioning, working principles and objectives of rural planning.
December 2019

Notice of the Ministry of Natural Resources on the Pilot Work of Comprehensive Land Consolidation

The Notice of the Ministry of Natural Resources on Carrying out the Pilot Work of Comprehensive Land Consolidation (NZF [2019] No. 194) clearly defines the core content and main objectives of comprehensive land consolidation, and systematically guides local organizations to carry out pilot work.
June 2020

Letter on Key Points for the Implementation of Comprehensive Land Consolidation Pilot (Trial) (Natural Resources Ecological Restoration Letter [2020 [37])

The Department of Land, Space and Ecological Restoration of the Ministry of Natural Resources printed and distributed the above document, making clear requirements for pilot site selection, regulation area delimitation, village planning preparation, regulation task determination, double 5% standard, indicator identification, content review, monitoring and supervision, acceptance assessment, negative list and other tasks.
April 2021

The Department of Land, Space and Ecological Restoration printed and distributed the Outline for the Preparation of the Implementation Plan for the Pilot Comprehensive Land Remediation (Trial) to guide the preparation of the implementation plan

The "14th Five Year Plan" will "standardize the comprehensive land improvement throughout the region" as a key content of the implementation of rural construction action.

Main tasks

The pilot township government shall organize the overall preparation of the village plan, implement the objectives, tasks, areas, main contents, spatial layout, etc. of the comprehensive land consolidation determined in the superior land spatial planning (overall land use planning), make the overall design according to local conditions, and implement the remediation tasks, indicators and layout requirements to specific plots. The village planning should fully link up the achievements of the "three lines" delimitation of the urban development boundary, the permanent basic farmland protection red line and the ecological protection red line, and should be strictly implemented to specific plots. If the project involves the adjustment of the layout of permanent basic farmland, the adjustment scheme of permanent basic farmland should be included in the village planning.

The village planning should reasonably determine the scale of construction land, reasonably determine the total scale of the village according to the village layout planning and rural industry development, and protect historical and cultural (traditional) villages. At the end of the planning period, the total scale of village construction land should not exceed the scale of the planning base period. In village planning, it is necessary to make overall arrangements for ecological land for production and living, reasonably delimit functional areas for agricultural production, village construction, industrial development and ecological protection, earnestly plan for the protection of cultivated land and permanent basic farmland, reasonably arrange land for agricultural facilities, and make overall arrangements for land for rural industry, infrastructure, housing and other development. More>>

Based on the land space planning and village planning, carry out the status survey and feasibility analysis, organize the preparation of the pilot implementation plan for comprehensive land improvement throughout the region, and submit it to the county (city) government for approval. The implementation plan shall be prepared on the basis of the Outline for the Preparation of the Implementation Plan for the Comprehensive Land Consolidation Pilot (Trial), and supplemented and improved in combination with the actual project needs.

The preparation of the implementation plan should be fully linked with the village planning, instead of "two skins" of planning and implementation plan. At the same time, the implementation plan should combine the feasibility study report, basic farmland adjustment plan, etc., to complete the achievement requirements of the comprehensive land improvement project across the region.

The project should comprehensively promote the arrangement of inefficient forest land, grassland and garden land, improvement and reconstruction of existing cultivated land, construction of high standard farmland, and development of unused land suitable for cultivation, reduce the fragmentation of cultivated land, optimize the layout of cultivated land, and improve the quality of cultivated land. After the implementation of agricultural land consolidation, ensure that the cultivated land is improved, and the newly increased cultivated land area is not less than 5% of the original cultivated land area.

We will coordinate the construction land for farmers' housing construction, industrial development, public services, transportation and water conservancy infrastructure, orderly arrange rural residential land, industrial and mining wasteland, and other inefficient idle construction land, strengthen the management of increase and decrease linked projects, optimize the layout of rural construction land, revitalize the stock and idle asset resources, and support the development of new rural industries and new business types.

During the implementation of the project, the rural homestead renovation activities should be carried out in an orderly manner, and activities such as village amalgamation, demolition and construction should not be carried out against the wishes of farmers. The social stability risk assessment should be fully carried out. The village committee should hold a villagers' forum on the relevant contents of the project construction design, and fully understand the opinions of the people in the project area on the implementation of comprehensive land renovation, The villagers' recognition and support for the demolition and renovation of homestead can be implemented only after more than two-thirds of the villagers or villagers' representatives have passed the resolution.

The project should focus on preserving the local cultural characteristics of the village, combine the integrity of the local ecosystem and the differences of the regional natural environment, and implement ecological restoration projects such as rural residential environment improvement, geological disaster prevention, abandoned mine treatment, contaminated soil restoration, rural garbage and water environment restoration.

We will vigorously implement the improvement of the living environment, promote the rural garbage revolution, the toilet revolution, the sewage revolution, the construction of the "four modernizations" project, and the control of landscape features, and strengthen the protection of the rural ecological environment.

The mine ecological restoration work is carried out in combination with the Letter of Opinions on Accelerating the Implementation of Comprehensive Rectification of Open pit Mines (NZBH [2019] No. 819) issued by the General Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the General Office of the Ministry of Ecological Environment, especially the Opinions of the Ministry of Natural Resources on Exploring and Utilizing Marketization Methods to Promote Mine Ecological Restoration (NZGP [2019] No. 6) and other policy documents.

In village planning, historical and cultural (traditional) villages should be strictly protected, and construction activities that damage the rural landscape and historical and cultural context should not be carried out, and demolition and construction activities that do not meet the requirements should not be drafted in traditional villages that need special protection.

We will strengthen village planning and design, and promote the creation of boutique villages, A-level scenic villages, beautiful and livable demonstration villages, and ethnic minority villages.

Support policies

The biggest highlight of the pilot work of comprehensive land consolidation across the region is that it has given local governments two policy levers on the basis of existing policies.

First, strengthen the protection of cultivated land and allow reasonable adjustment of permanent basic farmland

It is emphasized that if the adjustment of permanent basic farmland is involved, the adjustment plan of permanent basic farmland in the regulation area should be prepared and handled according to the existing regulations. In principle, the newly increased area of permanent basic farmland must be no less than 5% of the adjusted area. It shall be incorporated into the village planning for implementation after being reviewed and approved by the provincial department in charge of natural resources in conjunction with the department in charge of agriculture and rural areas. The database of permanent basic farmland will be updated and improved after the renovation task in the renovation area is completed and accepted.

Second, invigorate the rural stock of construction land and expand the scope of indicator circulation

Priority should be given to ensuring rural construction land. Through comprehensive land consolidation, the construction land that has been retired should be mainly used for the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas to promote industrial revitalization and enhance the self hematopoietic function of rural areas on the premise of ensuring the land for farmers' resettlement, rural infrastructure construction, public welfare and other purposes in the project area.

To highlight the value of rural land assets, the surplus construction land indicators shall be used according to the policy of linking urban and rural construction land increase and decrease, and the circulation scope shall be expanded from the county to the province, so as to promote the scientific allocation and reasonable flow of land elements and provide strong financial support for rural revitalization. In addition, in order to encourage all regions to actively carry out the pilot work of comprehensive land consolidation across the region, the Ministry has given some support to the pilot work in terms of planned indicators.

Implementation mode

"Urban rural integration" development model

This model is applicable to the suburban areas of cities and towns. In combination with the development needs of the countryside itself, through the renovation of inefficient land characterized by "low, scattered, and disorderly", we will build a new rural area with a thriving industry and a livable environment with concentrated rural housing, concentrated industrial parks, and complete infrastructure, narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, and accelerate the integration process of urban and rural integration.

"Modern agriculture" leading mode

This model is applicable to villages with good basic agricultural endowment, existing ordinary villages and central villages to be retained. Under the premise of ecological improvement, through farmland renovation, improving food security ability, protecting permanent basic farmland, through land circulation, on the basis of scale operation, build green agriculture, circular agriculture, sightseeing agriculture and other modern agriculture; Accelerate the integration of land resources, demolish old homesteads and build new ones, revitalize the homestead, and realize a new countryside where villagers gather, cultivated land is contiguous, industries are clustered, and villages are clean and tidy.

"Rural tourism" driving mode

This model is applicable to villages with rich cultural heritage and resources. By fully excavating rural culture and developing characteristic resources, it can continue the rural mechanism, develop rural characteristic tourism industry and promote the development of rural industry.

Development mode of "living together in villages"

This model is applicable to abandoned villages, dilapidated villages in mountainous areas, villages with potential geological hazards, relocation of ex situ poverty alleviation and ecological migration. In response to the call of the national homestead system reform, the original villages were simultaneously reclaimed into forest land, grassland and cultivated land by demolishing the old villages and building new ones, revitalizing the existing construction land, protecting the cultivated land while ensuring the safety of the villagers and improving the quality of life.

Building strategy

01 Make preliminary planning

With planning in the first place, we should build reasonable top-level designs such as industrial planning, tourism planning, village planning, etc., prepare the implementation plan for comprehensive land consolidation throughout the region, and find the right position, which is both forward-looking and practical.

02 Innovative investment and financing mode

In addition to actively establishing a long-term mechanism for overall planning and integration of agricultural funds, we should make good use of the system and policies for the use of the earnings from the circulation of indicators, attract and leverage more financial and social capital to participate in comprehensive land consolidation across the region and expand project financing channels through PPP, F+EPC, fund mode, and awards instead of subsidies.

03 Build a supporting industrial system

Industrial prosperity is the basis and key to realize rural revitalization. It is necessary to give full play to local resource advantages, tap industrial potential, accelerate the integration of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and build a reasonable modern agricultural industrial system.

04 Integrate land resources

Reasonably reorganize rural homestead, industrial and mining land and other abandoned and idle construction land, revitalize the stock, ensure the demand for land for rural revitalization industry, and promote the appropriate scale operation of agriculture through land transfer, joint-stock cooperative system, alternative farming and planting, land trusteeship, etc., to lay the foundation for agricultural modernization, leisure agriculture, etc., turn resources into assets, and increase farmers' income.

05 Improve organizational leadership guarantee

Implement the unified leadership responsibility of the Party committee and the government, establish an organizational guarantee mechanism with efficient operation, clear rights and responsibilities, and the participation of relevant departments, and make overall plans for major issues decision-making, regional policy formulation, comprehensive coordination, fund operation, supervision and assessment. The implementation entity takes the lead in planning, project initiation, investment negotiation, agreement signing, implementation supervision, demolition coordination, assessment management, index acceptance and warehousing filing, index transaction, fund payment and organization of project handover.

Unique full process consulting solution

CMC can provide unique whole process consulting services for comprehensive land consolidation projects across the region, including but not limited to the following services: project investment and financing planning, industrial revitalization solutions, rural planning top-level design, implementation plan preparation, cultural tourism scenic spot operation trusteeship, cross regional transfer of indicators, land consolidation project planning and design, etc.

01 Preparation of implementation plan

The comprehensive land consolidation project of the whole region should be based on the spatial planning of township land and village planning, prepare the construction implementation plan, carry out feasibility analysis on the legality and compliance of the whole region project, social stability risk assessment, resource advantages, utilization constraints, remediation potential, fund raising, farmers' income increase, etc., and clarify the project objectives and tasks, functional divisions, project arrangements Key rectification points, rectification measures, schedule, fund estimation and financing, etc. The main technical people of the company's Rural Revitalization Research Institute were responsible for the preparation of the implementation plan of the National Pilot Project for Comprehensive Land Renovation in Sunbo Town, Feicheng City, Shandong Province.

02 Planning and design of land consolidation project

The implementation plan of comprehensive land consolidation is the overall arrangement of each sub project (project). In the later stage, it is necessary to issue a detailed planning and design for a single project to guide the construction and implementation of a single project. The design of land consolidation project mainly includes the feasibility study, planning design and budget preparation of inefficient forest consolidation, high standard basic farmland construction, development of arable reserve land resources, combination of farmland quality improvement and reconstruction, land reclamation, urban and rural construction land increase and decrease, urban industrial and mining land consolidation, rural homestead consolidation, and other inefficient idle construction land consolidation.

03 Top level design of rural planning

Natural Resources Ecological Remediation Letter [2020] No. 37 proposes that villages carrying out comprehensive land consolidation projects must prepare village plans. For those that have not yet prepared village plans or have prepared township land space plans or village plans but cannot meet the needs, they should be prepared or adjusted according to procedures. Village plans should include the renovation tasks The indicators and layout requirements shall be implemented to specific plots, and the organization and management, implementation timing, project arrangement and investment sources shall be clarified.

04 Cross regional transfer of indicators

Clarify the source, scale and layout of surplus indicators linked to the increase and decrease of urban and rural construction land and supplementary cultivated land indicators, sort out the formation, warehousing, circulation and transaction process of indicators, calculate the investment income, design the preliminary planning, cooperation mode and transaction structure of social capital participation in land improvement projects, and the cross regional circulation and national overall planning process of indicators in counties (districts) and cities, Provide feasibility analysis report of project implementation.

05 Industrial revitalization solution (investment promotion in advance)

The basic goal of comprehensive land consolidation across the region is to achieve the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, which is a powerful grasp and space carrier to promote rural revitalization. Only the revitalization of industry can bring about the real revitalization of the countryside. Therefore, the implementation of the project should be highly consistent with the actual needs of industrial development, and the innovation of the Chinese Academy of Mechanical Engineering will put investment ahead, Make the industrial planning forward-looking, feasible and practical.

06 Investment and financing planning

The comprehensive land consolidation project is a systematic and long-term project, which requires a clear and stable funding supply channel. Local Party committees and governments should establish an effective long-term mechanism for the overall planning and integration of various agricultural related financial funds such as development and reform, agriculture, rural revitalization, land and transportation, make good use of the policy system for the use of surplus indicators linked to the increase and decrease of use, and supplement the farmland indicators and other circulation earnings, effectively attract and leverage more financial and social capital to invest in comprehensive land improvement across the region with financial funds, Effectively and effectively ensure the balance between supply and demand of funds. Social capital is encouraged to participate in the comprehensive land consolidation in the whole region in the form of PPP, F+EPC, fund mode, awards instead of subsidies, etc. The income from land index circulation and the rural revitalization funds coordinated by the government can be given to the project company in the form of awards and subsidies through the establishment of a special fund.

07 Tourism Planning (Scenic Area Operation Trusteeship)

The rural industry is dominated by leisure agriculture, cultural tourism industry, etc., and it is necessary to build tourism products, tourism routes, tourism formats, etc. in line with the local reality. The Chinese Academy of Mechanical Engineering will combine the early preparation work such as tourism planning with the actual experience of later operation to ensure the rationality and implementation of the planning.

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