Jinta County's Innovative Approach to Farmland Protection

In a significant effort to safeguard national food security, Jinta County in Gansu Province, China has established a comprehensive farmland protection system, integrating accountability, scientific governance, and community participation. This multi-faceted approach has ensured the protection of 1.0232 million mu of cultivated land and 906,100 mu of permanent basic farmland.

Key Takeaways:

• Jinta County has implemented a four-tiered protection network at the county, township, and village level, effectively solidifying farmland conservation responsibilities and breaking down protection tasks into village and community grids.
• The county has established a grid system for responsibilities, with four levels of coordination working together to safeguard "red-line farmland" and utilized robust measures to implement the "Measures for Assessing Farmland Conservation Responsibility."
• A dynamic deregistration mechanism has been put in place for areas where cultivated land has been lost, ensuring that "non-agriculturalization" becomes untraceable.
• The county has refined land use and established a tighter "protection net" through source control, prioritizing inferior land and establishing a comprehensive supervision system for project land use.
• Since the beginning of the year, 62.11 mu of cultivated land has been fully utilized, and 831.63 mu of idle and inefficient land has been cleared, equivalent to saving 415.82 mu of high-quality cultivated land.
• A "negative list of land use" has been established, prohibiting all projects from occupying permanent basic farmland, except for national key projects.
• The county has implemented targeted remediation efforts, utilizing technology to restore farmland and compiled an inventory of cultivated land outflow patches.
• By 2025, the provincial government had issued four cultivated land satellite images, two of which had already been rectified, achieving the ecological transformation from "outflow patches" to "fertile fields."
• A three-dimensional publicity campaign has been launched, with nationwide participation in the "song of farmland protection," creating a three-dimensional publicity matrix of "node-level publicity + field-based education + mobile classrooms."
• Over 6,500 farmer commitment letters have been signed, and 1,200 copies of the "Farmland Protection Knowledge Handbook" have been distributed, fostering a social consensus that "farmland protection is everyone's responsibility."

Statistics:

• 1.0232 million mu of cultivated land is protected through the four-tiered protection network.
• 906,100 mu of permanent basic farmland is safeguarded through the protection network.
• 62.11 mu of cultivated land has been fully utilized since the beginning of the year.
• 831.63 mu of idle and inefficient land has been cleared, equivalent to saving 415.82 mu of high-quality cultivated land.
• 6,500 farmer commitment letters have been signed.
• 1,200 copies of the "Farmland Protection Knowledge Handbook" have been distributed.

Sources:

• Jinta County Government Website: [www.jtxzf.gov.cn](http://www.jtxzf.gov.cn)
• Jinta County People's Government: [www.jintaxian.gov.cn](http://www.jintaxian.gov.cn)