习近平主持召开中央财经委员会第二次会议强调 切实加强耕地保护 全力提升耕地质量 稳步拓展农业生产空间

中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席、中央财经委员会主任习近平7月20日下午主持召开中央财经委员会第二次会议，研究加强耕地保护和盐碱地综合改造利用等问题。习近平在会上发表重要讲话强调，粮食安全是“国之大者”，耕地是粮食生产的命根子，要落实藏粮于地、藏粮于技战略，切实加强耕地保护，全力提升耕地质量，充分挖掘盐碱地综合利用潜力，稳步拓展农业生产空间，提高农业综合生产能力。

中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理、中央财经委员会副主任李强，中共中央政治局常委、中央书记处书记、中央财经委员会委员蔡奇，中共中央政治局常委、国务院副总理、中央财经委员会委员丁薛祥出席会议。

会议听取了自然资源部、农业农村部、中央财办（中央农办）、国家发展改革委关于加强耕地保护和盐碱地综合改造利用的汇报。

会议指出，我们党始终高度重视耕地保护问题，党的十八大以来，党中央先后实施一系列硬措施，守住了耕地红线，初步遏制了耕地总量持续下滑趋势。同时要清醒认识到，我国人多地少的国情没有变，耕地“非粮化”、“非农化”问题依然突出，守住耕地红线的基础尚不稳固，农田水利方面欠账还很多。新时代新征程上，耕地保护任务没有减轻，而是更加艰巨。必须坚持问题导向、目标导向，尊重规律、因势利导、因地制宜、久久为功，进一步加强耕地保护。

会议强调，耕地保护是一个系统工程，要突出把握好量质并重、严格执法、系统推进、永续利用等重大要求，进一步采取过硬实招。要压实耕地保护责任，落实新一轮国土空间规划明确的耕地和永久基本农田保护任务，确保18亿亩耕地红线决不突破。要全力提升耕地质量，真正把耕地特别是永久基本农田建成适宜耕作、旱涝保收、高产稳产的现代化良田。要改革完善耕地占补平衡制度，将各类对耕地的占用统一纳入占补平衡管理，坚持“以补定占”，健全补充耕地质量验收制度。要调动农民和地方政府保护耕地、种粮抓粮积极性，建立种粮农民收益保障机制，发展多种形式的适度规模经营，建立粮食主产区利益补偿机制，形成粮食主产区、主销区、产销平衡区耕地保护合力。加强撂荒地治理，摸清底数，分类推进，因地制宜把撂荒地种好用好。要积极开发各类非传统耕地资源，加强科技研发和生产投资，探索有效发展模式，突破我国传统耕地稀缺的自然条件限制。对违规占用耕地进行整改复耕要实事求是，尊重规律，保护农民利益，加强宣传解读，适当留出过渡期，循序渐进推动。

会议指出，盐碱地综合改造利用是耕地保护和改良的重要方面，我国盐碱地多，部分地区耕地盐碱化趋势加剧，开展盐碱地综合改造利用意义重大。要充分挖掘盐碱地综合利用潜力，加强现有盐碱耕地改造提升，有效遏制耕地盐碱化趋势，做好盐碱地特色农业大文章。要全面摸清盐碱地资源状况，研究编制盐碱地综合利用总体规划和专项实施方案，分区分类开展盐碱耕地治理改良，因地制宜利用盐碱地，向各类盐碱地资源要食物，“以种适地”同“以地适种”相结合，加快选育耐盐碱特色品种，大力推广盐碱地治理改良的有效做法，强化水源、资金等要素保障。

会议审议通过了《关于推动盐碱地综合利用的指导意见》。

会议还研究了其他事项。

中央财经委员会委员出席会议，中央和国家机关有关部门负责同志列席会议。

Xi stresses strengthening farmland protection, quality improvement to expand room for agricultural production

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president, chairman of the Central Military Commission, and director of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs (CCFEA), on Thursday presided over the second meeting of the CCFEA, where a series of issues were discussed such as farmland protection and the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land. Xi delivered an important speech, stressing that food security is among a country's most fundamental interests, and farmland is the lifeblood of grain production. China should implement the strategy of sustainable farmland use and innovative application of agricultural technology to increase farmland productivity, and take concrete steps to strengthen farmland protection. It is imperative to improve the quality of farmland and fully tap the potential of the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land, so as to steadily expand the room for agricultural production and boost overall agricultural production capacity.

Li Qiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Chinese premier and deputy director of the CCFEA; Cai Qi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, a member of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat and a member of the CCFEA; and Ding Xuexiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Chinese vice premier and a member of the CCFEA, attended the meeting.

At the meeting, attendees heard reports on strengthening the protection of farmland and the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land from the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Central Financial Work Leading Group Office (the Central Agricultural Work Leading Group Office) and the National Development and Reform Commission.

It was pointed out at the meeting that the CPC has always attached great importance to the protection of cultivated land. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee has implemented a series of tough measures to maintain the red line of farmland, preliminarily keeping the total amount of China's farmland from dwindling. Meanwhile, it is essential to be aware that China still has a large population with limited arable land, and the use of farmland for non-farming purposes remains a prominent issue. The foundation for maintaining the red line of farmland is not yet stable, and there are still many problems in terms of farmland water conservancy. On the new journey in the new era, the task of farmland protection has not been lightened, but become heavier. We must adhere to the problem-oriented and goal-oriented approach, respect the law, navigate the situation judiciously according to circumstances, adapt to local conditions, and make persistent efforts, so as to further strengthen the protection of farmland.

It was stressed at the meeting that farmland protection is a systematic project, which makes it necessary to highlight the major requirements such as attaching equal importance to quantity and quality, strict law enforcement, systematic promotion and sustainable utilization. Solid measures need to be adopted in this regard. It is imperative to make sure that the responsibility is fulfilled for protecting farmland, implement a new round of tasks for protecting farmland and permanent basic cropland, as specified in the national land space planning, and make sure not to breach the red line of 1.8 billion mu (about 120 million hectares) of farmland. It is necessary to make every effort to improve the quality of farmland and truly turn farmland, especially permanent basic cropland, into modern, fertile land that is suitable for farming and capable of producing high and stable yields despite droughts or floods. It is imperative to reform and improve the system for offsetting cultivated land used for other purposes. All farmland used for other purposes must be placed under the system's management in a unified way. The principle must be upheld that the farmland occupied for other purposes must be offset equally with the newly opened-up farmland. The mechanism should be perfected for checking whether the quality of the newly-developed farmland to offset the occupied farmland for other purposes is up to the required standard. It is imperative to motivate farmers and local governments to protect cropland, and grow and manage well crops for high yields, establish the mechanism for ensuring the incomes of grain growers, develop appropriately different forms of scaled agricultural operations, and establish the mechanism for compensating major grain-producing areas, so as to form a synergy among major grain-producing areas, major grain sales areas and areas where agricultural production and sales are balanced to protect cropland. It is important to strengthen the efforts to manage idle land, and take stock of such land resources before farming or putting such land to other use as the case may be. We should proactively develop all kinds of non-traditional farmland resources, strengthen sci-tech research, production and investment in this regard, and explore effective development modes so as to overcome the constraints of the lack of traditional farmland in our country. As far as turning the farmland illegally occupied for other purposes back to farmland is concerned, what can be done must be realistic, and specific circumstances must be taken into consideration to protect the interests of the farmers concerned. Publicity and interpretation of related policies must be strengthened. An appropriate transitional period should be set aside to push forward the process step by step.

It was pointed out at the meeting that the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali soil constitutes an important part of the protection and improvement of farmland. China boasts a large area of saline-alkali land, and the farmland in some regions has been deteriorating into saline-alkali conditions. Therefore, it is of great significance to ameliorate and utilize the saline-alkali land in a holistic manner. We should fully tap the potential of comprehensive use of saline-alkali land, strengthen the transformation of the existent saline-alkali land and effectively curb the worsening saline-alkali conditions of some farmland, so as to develop an agricultural undertaking with saline-alkali land utilization as a distinctive feature. It is imperative to take stock of saline-alkali land resources, and work out a general plan and specific implementation measures accordingly on the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land. Saline-alkali farmland of different types must be managed and ameliorated in differentiated approaches, and different local conditions must be taken into consideration for the utilization of such land so that all types of saline-alkali land can be an important resource for the production of grain. We should accelerate the selection and cultivation of saline-alkali tolerant varieties of crops, and either grow tolerant crops in such land or transform such land for specific crops. Approaches that have been proved effective should be widely applied, and such necessary factors as water and fund must be secured.

The document Guiding Opinions on Promoting Comprehensive Utilization of Saline-alkali Land was examined and approved at the meeting.

Some other issues were also discussed at the meeting.

Members of the CCFEA were present. Leading officials of relevant central Party and government departments sat in on the meeting.