Farmland reform policy

Farmland restoration policies are as follows:

1. The land management department shall make an assessment jointly with the competent agricultural department. After passing the appraisal, there will be some subsidies. The state practices a system of balance between occupation and compensation. After the project occupies agricultural land, the same area of land should be reclaimed to maintain this balance. Generally, the land use unit is responsible for rehabilitation. If the land-using unit does not re-cultivate, it can pay the land re-cultivation fee, and then other departments can use this fee to re-cultivate the same area of land. It is illegal if the land-using unit fails to reclaim or re-cultivate the same area of land after construction.

2. If the land reclamation obligor restores the cultivated land destroyed by production and construction activities to its original state within the prescribed time limit, he may apply for refund of the paid cultivated land occupation tax; State-owned land users, collectively owned land owners or users damaged by historical legacy and natural disasters will reclaim their own land for cultivated land, and the government at or above the county level will give subsidies, and the specific subsidy standards will be implemented in accordance with relevant local policies.

Legal basis: Article 44 of the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China.

Where the land occupied by construction involves the conversion of agricultural land into construction land, the examination and approval procedures for the conversion of agricultural land shall be handled.

The conversion of permanent basic farmland into construction land shall be approved by the State Council.

In order to implement the overall land use planning of cities, villages and market towns, if agricultural land other than permanent basic farmland is converted into construction land, the organ that originally approved the overall land use planning or its authorized organ shall, in accordance with the provisions of the State Council, approve it in batches according to the annual land use plan. Within the approved scope of agricultural land conversion, the land for specific construction projects can be approved by the municipal or county people's governments.

The conversion of agricultural land other than permanent basic farmland into construction land outside the scope of construction land for cities, villages and market towns determined in the overall land use planning shall be approved by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government authorized by the State Council or the State Council.