Why were more than 2,100 square meters of cultivated land in Beijing stolen and filled with garbage?

Beijing, at the foot of the imperial city where every inch of land is precious, there are people digging up cultivated land to illegally quarry sand and gravel, and then secretly bury garbage in big pits...

To be honest, This profit-making model is quite puzzling.

The cultivated land was dug up and then filled with garbage

Narrative

My own land was dug into dangerous land by fellow villagers, close to the "cliff"

“Just to quarry sand and gravel, large deep pits were dug out of the good cultivated land in the village, but the backfill was filled with garbage after digging.”

During the Spring Festival in 2017, behind the scenes of Nankou Town, Changping District, Beijing Chen Zonghua, a villager in Wa Village, is living a very unstable life. When the destroyed farmland will be reclaimed has become something she cannot forget.

Chen Zonghua said that since the winter of 2010, the farmland in the village has been gradually destroyed by people digging sand and gravel. For more than two years since December 2014, they have been working hard to report the illegal mining of sand and gravel in the village to the relevant departments, but they have not been resolved.

In the late night of December 9 and the early morning of December 11, 2014, three households in the village dug sand and gravel on their own and other people’s farmland. This time, her family’s farmland was also affected, covering an area of ??80 square meters. was dug, and next to it was a large pit more than 10 meters deep.

“The fields have become a ‘dangerous land’. Standing on the edge is like a cliff, and you are always worried about whether it will collapse.” Chen Zonghua said.

Because of reports from other villagers, the other party stopped the project. Chen Zonghua made reclamation requests to the villagers who dug the sand and gravel, but received no response. She began to complain to relevant departments at the village, town, district and other levels.

Reclamation refers to taking measures to remediate damaged land to bring it into a usable state. This is also the original function of cultivated land.

The petition requires the nursing team to stay on duty 24 hours a day

The farmland was dug up again!

Chen Zonghua showed reporters an opinion letter on the handling of petitions from the Changping Branch of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Land and Resources on June 1, 2015. The content showed that she reported that her farmland had been dug up and turned into dangerous land. It is basically true that dangerous land cannot be cultivated.

The opinion also stated that “Nankou Police Station has launched an investigation into the matter, but so far no illegal mining activities have been discovered and no suspects have been arrested.” “The Nankou Town Government has tasked the Land and Mineral Resources Conservation Team to conduct 24 After working for hours, the town government also stated that it would restore the land damaged by illegal mining in a timely manner. At the same time, the district sand control office included the area as a key inspection area. "Once illegal mining is discovered, it will be dealt with seriously." .

But the villagers who mined sand and gravel did not stop there. "On March 11, 2016, they dug again close to my farmland, and my brother caught him." Chen Zonghua said.

The other party finally promised to reclaim the land

It was actually backfilled with garbage

"On August 28, 2016, we separately informed the villagers of the same village who illegally quarried sand and gravel. Xing, Xing, Wang and others wrote to us, once again proposing to fill in the deep pit and make the land meet the reclamation standards. Finally, Xing signed a cultivated land reclamation agreement with us on behalf of the other two households, promising to complete the land reclamation in December 2016. The cultivated land will be reclaimed before March 31st."

Chen Zonghua provided a reporter on the scene with a photo of the "Letter of Reclamation Commitment" signed by Xing. The reason for reclamation showed that Xing Mou, Wang and Chen "were responsible for mining." "The sand and gravel dug out a big hole in the cultivated land." The other party promised to fill the deep hole. After the reclamation, the cultivated land complied with the standards stipulated in the "Land Law" and was suitable for planting trees and crops.

But what she never expected was that the "materials" used to fill the hole were all domestic waste and construction waste.

"At 5 a.m. on January 16, 2017, they brought another truck full of domestic garbage and prepared to dump it." Chen Zonghua said that this time she and her family reported 110 and 96310 , and eventually the other party’s transport vehicle was detained.

“When will their reclamation commitment be fulfilled?” Chen Zonghua said helplessly.

He also denied that he had stolen sand and gravel

The sand and gravel digger mentioned in the "Reclamation Commitment Letter" provided by Chen Zonghua flatly denied that he had anything to do with the sand and gravel digging.

Xing’s mobile phone mentioned in the commitment letter was down, and the reporter did not contact him. Wang told a reporter at the scene that he was doing business outside and digging gravel and taking out garbage had nothing to do with him.

As to whether to excavate sand and gravel, Mr. Chen said, "I don't have a car, how can I dig it." He said that he had absolutely no involvement. He admitted that he had taken out the rubbish, but the rubbish pile was formed by everyone dumping it together. “The whole village dumped it there.”

Mr. Chen said that the reason why the town asked him to sign a letter of commitment was because on January 16, he asked a friend to use a farm truck to pull a load of leftovers from a restaurant to feed the pigs. Come, I don’t know the way, I walked through an intersection and prepared to turn around near the village garbage dump. As a result, the car was impounded, and the driver was fined 10,000 yuan and asked to remove the garbage and fill it with soil. Big holes were dug in the farmland, and the garbage pile "eaten" the fruit trees?

On February 7, in Houwa Village, Nankou Town, Changping District, Chen Zonghua reported that the dug farmland was located on the south side of the west intersection of the Nankou Nursing Home.

On the southernmost side of this farmland is a deep pit left by sand and gravel excavation in the early years. The area is estimated to be more than 10,000 square meters and about 6 meters deep. The villagers have leveled the bottom of the pit. Now Poplar trees have been planted.

The north side is a garbage covered area. There are five large garbage dumps, including both domestic garbage and construction waste. The smell of rotting garbage and burning was unpleasant and suffocating. The edge of the garbage dump is next to the planted fruit trees.

The cultivated land of Chen Zonghua’s family is adjacent to the garbage dump. This place used to be a deep pit, which was filled with domestic garbage and construction waste. A villager said that even if these areas where garbage is buried are covered with soil, they will have to wait at least five years before they can be cultivated.

The east side area is a large pit 20 meters long, 7 meters wide and 7 meters deep. Uprooted or broken fruit saplings were scattered around the edge of the pit.

A villager who was working in a nearby farmland told reporters that this was newly dug by sand and gravel diggers on December 30, 2016. "A large excavator came that day. There was no movement during the day, but it was busy working from 12 o'clock to 5 o'clock in the morning."

Chen Zonghua told reporters that they have measured that the entire cultivated land that has been stolen since 2010 is about 28.3 acres.

According to the villagers, compared with planting fruit trees, digging sand and gravel is a "costless and profitable" thing. Mr. Zhao, who has worked in a sand and gravel factory for 6 years, said that according to market conditions, a 30-ton truck of sand and gravel can be sold to a sand and gravel factory for 900 to 1,000 yuan. Generally, large trucks can load 30 tons, and smaller trucks can load 20 tons. . An excavator can dig 50 to 60 trucks a night, making a profit of about 50,000 yuan.

The villagers of Houwa Village, Nankou Town, Changping District reported that over the past few years, a large area of ??cultivated land in the village has turned into a deep pit and "garbage dump" due to illegal mining of sand and gravel.

Village Party Secretary:

We have tried to dissuade them many times, but to no avail

“We have tried to dissuade them many times, but the village has no law enforcement power and cannot take them. How about it". On February 7, Han Wenyong, Party Secretary of Houwa Village, was very angry when he talked about illegal mining of sand and gravel. “The village is very helpless and we are also in trouble.”

Han Wenyong said that when the illegal mining of sand and gravel first appeared in the village, he happened to be hospitalized. "After tasting the benefits, it became difficult to control it. I also persuaded them many times, but it was of no use." ".

On the afternoon of February 8, the Nankou Town Government responded to an on-site reporter saying that a working group led by the town mayor and composed of relevant heads of multiple departments had been set up to investigate and deal with the situation on site, and ordered the illegal diggers to be Garbage must be removed and the land restored to its original appearance within a time limit.

A multi-department coordination meeting is being held in the town this morning. Regarding the excavation of sand and gravel, they will immediately organize the installation of video surveillance equipment, road height limit poles, cement grates and other facilities.

Nankou Town established a working group

Ordered to remove garbage and make rectifications within a time limit

Install monitoring to specifically deal with sand and gravel digging

February At 7 p.m. on the 8th, Wang Chao, publicity committee member of the Nankou Town Party Committee in Changping District, responded, "The town takes this matter very seriously, and the main leaders of the town went to the scene to deal with it today."

This morning, Wang Chao, publicity committee member of the Nankou Town Party Committee, said that the town is holding a multi-department coordination meeting, and will immediately organize the installation of video surveillance equipment, road height limit poles, and cement grates for sand and gravel digging. and other facilities, but the specific area of ??cultivated land destroyed due to illegal sand and gravel mining has yet to be verified.

Recently, Nankou Town has also launched multiple investigations into this matter and formulated strict measures: First, it instructs a dedicated person to follow up on the matter and urge the parties involved to speed up the rectifications to ensure that the rectifications are completed on schedule; second, the land parcel Carry out round-the-clock inspections to ensure that on-site garbage "only goes out but not in"; third, draw inferences from one example and quickly carry out comprehensive inspections throughout the town to resolutely prevent similar problems from happening again.

After measurement, the matter involved more than 2,000 square meters of cultivated land

The environmental protection department took samples to analyze whether the groundwater was contaminated

On the afternoon of February 9, a reporter from the First Site made a return visit We saw that the Nankou Town Environmental Sanitation Center was clearing away garbage. The land and resources department measured and confirmed that the area where sand and gravel were illegally quarried and landfilled was 2,103.96 square meters.

Nankou Town stated that they will try to clean up all the holes within a month and fill all the deep pits on the farmland. The town has also installed cameras on site to ensure 24-hour monitoring, and will reward those who report illegal transport vehicles.

A forklift at the scene was shoveling piles of garbage from a large pit in the farmland into a removal truck. The reporter noticed that there were still two of the five large garbage piles left.

A worker said that they came to the site to clean up at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. "The garbage was loaded into a whole truck, weighing at least 5 tons."

The worker said that these The garbage must be transported to the Asowei Waste Treatment Plant and classified and processed using processes such as incineration, composting, and landfilling. "Now there is one forklift and one transport truck. In a few days, the excavator will be available, and the number of transport trucks will be increased to 10," the worker said.

Wang Chao, publicity committee member of the Nankou Town Party Committee, said that all the garbage here will be cleaned up within a month, and the deep pits on the farmland will also be filled. These workers, vehicles, and equipment all belong to the Nankou Town Environmental Sanitation Center. The cost of garbage removal will be advanced by the town government, and the illegal sand and gravel quarryers will be pursued through legal means in the future.

At the same time, the Changping District Environmental Protection Bureau’s Nankou Inspection Team also conducted an on-site investigation, taking water samples from two locations and taking them back for analysis to see if the landfilled garbage had contaminated the groundwater.

The reporter also noticed that there were engineers measuring the land at the scene, saying that high-definition cameras would be installed at intersections and at the scene. Each camera could cover an area with a radius of at least 30 meters. Tang Chaohui, mayor of Nankou Town, who is inspecting the work on site, said that the camera monitoring room is located in the Houwa Village Committee and can monitor remotely 24 hours a day.

Propaganda committee member Wang Chao introduced that the town has also studied and formulated a long-term working mechanism to control dumping of debris and garbage, and issued the "Notice on Rewarding Reports of Illegal Dumping of Dumping and Litter and Illegal Mining of Sand and Stone" 》, those who report and assist in the seizure of illegal transport vehicles will be rewarded 1,000 yuan for each vehicle reported.

Dialogue with the village secretary:

Villagers can make money by selling their land

They are unable to manage the illegal excavation of sand and gravel, and they even cried over it

Cultivated land was stolen and dug up in Houwa Village. Why were villagers’ land dug up? Is this an accident? Village committee secretary Han Wenyong responded to reporters by saying, “Illegal mining of sand and gravel has also occurred in other villages.”

He mentioned that Nankou Town is a "mountain town", especially the cultivated land in Houwa Village is mainly sand and gravel, and the quality is not good. There are 3,000 acres of cultivated land in the village and 480 households, each of whom owns less than one acre of land. Most villagers can only plant some fruit trees, and the economic situation of families mainly engaged in farming is not very good.

Han Wenyong told reporters that in order to make money, some villagers sold (rented) their farmland to illegal sand and gravel quarryers. “Some were forced, and some were voluntary.

Villager Yu Hehai said that they can earn more than 1,000 yuan a year from farming, but if they sell (rent) the land to sand and gravel quarryers, they can get 30,000 to 40,000 yuan per acre. "This One handful can cover many years of agricultural income."

Han Wenyong also mentioned that after the cultivated land mainly composed of sand and gravel is dug up, fruit trees can be planted again by backfilling 10 centimeters of soil. “And because the sand and gravel are gone, the land has been improved. "During the visit, the reporter found that poplar trees had been planted on the land that was excavated in the early years of Houwa Village. Han Wenyong said that this was the town's plain afforestation project, and he would pay 2,400 yuan per mu of land per year. This statement This was confirmed by Wang Chao, propaganda committee member of the Nankou Town Party Committee.

However, the villagers who had the idea of ??“making money by selling the land while also improving the quality of the land” did not expect that illegal collectors would backfill with garbage.