—— Interview with Feng Yemao, Party Secretary and Director of Ningling County Bureau of Land and Resources
In the golden autumn of September, the land in eastern Henan was full of crops. The reporter and his party took many questions such as farmland protection, land supervision and law enforcement, mediation of land-related contradictions and disputes, publicity and popularization of land and resources laws and policies, and made a special trip to Ningling County, the birthplace of land coordinator, to find the answer. Feng Yemao, Party Secretary and Director of the County Land and Resources Bureau, accepted our interview.
reporter: I heard that you are a representative of "learning" cadres in Ningling County. You love to use your brains and dare to innovate. You have explored the land coordinator system in strengthening the management of land and resources, thus raising the protection of cultivated land and land supervision and law enforcement to a new level. Please talk about why the land coordinator can originate in your county.
feng yemao: it's really not worthy to say that I am a "learning" cadre. in fact, it's far from it. However, this is the direction of efforts. If a person, especially a leading cadre, doesn't study, he won't be sober politically, he won't have a say in business, he is at a loss when he meets problems, and he can't come up with solutions and measures. As far as the establishment of a team of land coordinators is concerned, we did not come up with it out of thin air. This problem must be traced back to the end of 25 and the beginning of 26. At that time, all the 15 land and resources institutes in our county were in place with new institutions, new teams and new personnel. However, patrol law enforcement often encounters some new situations and problems. First, there are many illegal points in land, which can't be taken care of at all; Second, the supervision distance is far away, the information is ineffective and the work is passive; Third, grassroots cadres are not actively cooperating, and some want to help but can't tell the truth. In this regard, we conduct research and analysis, and think that the management of land and resources is the same responsibility of the whole society, and farmers must be allowed to participate in the management of land, and they can no longer "dance" alone. It's not that rural grassroots cadres don't want to manage, dare not manage, and won't manage, but that we didn't ask them to manage. Only by allowing them to participate, can we supervise at zero distance and achieve early detection, early stop, early report and early investigation. Therefore, it is inevitable to establish the land coordinator system.
reporter: your analysis is very philosophical and accords with the epistemology of dialectical materialism. Please tell us again what are the conditions for hiring a land coordinator, and why do you want to choose among the current village party branch secretary and village Committee director?
Feng Yemao: In order to achieve full coverage of land supervision and law enforcement, each administrative village should be equipped with at least one land coordinator, and administrative villages with more than 1, people should be equipped with two land coordinators. According to this ratio, 364 administrative villages in our county are equipped with 498 land coordinators, of which 84% are village party secretaries and 16% are village committee directors. As for why the land coordinator must be produced among the secretary of the village party branch and the director of the village Committee, the reasons are obvious: because the village branch is the grass-roots organization of the party and the village Committee is the autonomous organization of the villagers; Party branch secretary and village committee director have high prestige and organizational leadership among the masses. Hiring them as land coordinators not only makes great efforts, but also uses their dual identities to organize and lead party member and cadres and the masses to form a chorus to protect cultivated land. In view of this, in accordance with the requirements of responsible work, fair handling, prime of life and high education level, we have set up a strong team of land coordinators, with 1-2 people in each administrative village, by means of recommendation from the masses, checks by the township party committees and governments, and letters of appointment issued by the county land and resources bureau.
reporter: "Re-establishment and light management" is a common phenomenon. In fact, "management" is far greater than the workload of "construction". Your team of land coordinators is so large, and their living and work are so scattered. How is it managed?
Feng Yemao: Management is a science. Without a complete set of rules and regulations, a team and an institution can only operate efficiently and create good results on paper. In order to strengthen the management of land coordinators, we have gradually established and improved the working mechanism of "seven systems, three tables, one book and one award" in practice, namely, establishing the appointment system, the education and training system, the learning system, the work system, the reporting system, the performance file system and the deeds reporting system, and formulating the Work Record Form of Coordinator and Coordinator In this way, the chess is alive and full of vitality.
reporter: please briefly introduce what are the main functions of land coordinators, what roles they have played in land and resources management and what outstanding achievements they have achieved?
feng yemao: our functional orientation of land coordinator is that the bureau hires and manages, that is, the county land bureau hires and the local land office manages. Its main duties are: publicizing land and resources laws and policies, mediating land disputes, stopping illegal land use, supervising and saving intensive land use, protecting the safety of cultivated land, assisting land personnel in supervising and enforcing laws and investigating illegal cases. Work practice has proved that land coordinators have played an important role, and they mainly played six major roles. First, the role of propagandists, where to go, where to publicize, the village Committee's big speakers often have their voices; Second, the role of "clairvoyance" and "clairvoyance" can feed back land violations in every corner of the county to the land and resources department at the first time; Third, the role of mediators, the number of land conflicts and disputes is large and the situation is complex, and the land coordinator can use his special identity to resolve them in the initial stage, thus avoiding and reducing the occurrence of letters and visits; Fourth, the role of "fire extinguisher" and "firewall", all kinds of land violations can not cover their eyes at all, and are often eliminated in the bud; Fifth, the role of link and bridge, the land coordinator unblocked the channels for the land department to contact the masses, and promoted the smooth development of land and resources management; Sixth, it is an example and a driving role. Land coordinators set a benchmark for farmers in abiding by the law, which has a radiation effect. They also call on and lead the masses to practice land laws and regulations in their dual roles. According to incomplete statistics, two years and seven months after the implementation of the land coordinator system, * * * mediated 682 land disputes, stopped 425 land violations, and the number of land-related letters and visits decreased by 7%. The quality of 81,494.2 mu of cultivated land in the county did not decrease, and the use did not change, but the area increased by 2,24.2 mu.
Reporter: Party committees and governments at all levels must have given strong leadership and support to your work as a land coordinator. What specific work have they done?
feng yemao: yes, without the care and help of leaders at all levels, this work will not be carried out in a colorful way. As soon as a seedling was unearthed, the land coordinator was highly valued and carefully cared for by the leaders of Shangqiu Land and Resources Bureau and Ningling County Party Committee and Government. The leaders of the Municipal Bureau often come to Ningling for guidance and help, and specially issued the Notice on Promoting the Experience and Practice of Establishing the Land Coordinator System in Ningling County Land and Resources Bureau in the whole city. The county party committee decided to take the training of land coordinator as an important task of county and township (town) party schools, and issued the Notice on Establishing the Leading Group of Land and Resources Knowledge Training for Rural Cadres in Ningling County and the Implementation Plan of Land and Resources Knowledge Training for Rural Cadres in Ningling County. The county government issued the "Measures on the Employment and Management of Land Coordinators" in a timely manner. In order to improve the political and professional quality of land coordinators as soon as possible, the County Bureau of Land and Resources has compiled the Work Manual of Land Coordinators and the Common Manual of Basic Knowledge of Land and Resources, and updated 4 copies of Resource Guide for them.
Reporter: The land coordinators have worked hard and steadfastly to protect the red line of cultivated land. How do they get paid?
feng yemao: as I mentioned earlier, we will reward those who have made outstanding achievements, without subsidies or wages. In my opinion, equalitarianism in remuneration can not reflect the distribution principle of more work and more pay, and it is not conducive to mobilizing their enthusiasm. We set aside at least 1/3 of the places every year to select outstanding land coordinators at different levels, and then hold a county-wide commendation meeting to let them wear red flowers. The county magistrate personally awarded honorary certificates and red envelopes to everyone and rewarded them handsomely.
reporter: over the past year or so, many land departments of cities and counties have come to your county to learn from the scriptures. What are your thoughts and plans for your future work?
feng yemao: actually, the more praise the leaders give me and the more visits from other places, the more uneasy I feel, and the greater the pressure and the heavier the responsibility. Seriously, there are still many defects and deficiencies in the work of land coordinators in our county, and there is still a lot of room for development. According to more than two years' work practice, on the basis of giving full play to the role of land coordinators, we should try to make use of the special status of rural party branch secretaries who are mostly land coordinators, give full play to the role of the party branch as a fighting fortress and a vanguard and exemplary role, and mobilize rural party member to participate in farmland protection. In view of this, we intend to jointly carry out this work with the organization department of the county party Committee. By adopting a certain organizational form and establishing a standardized working mechanism, party member, a huge team in rural areas, will be brought into our team to protect cultivated land, and a cultivated land protection system integrating county, township, village and farmer party member will be formed.
reporter: this interview has gained a lot. Thank you for talking with us in your busy schedule.
feng yemao: every time you interview, it is a great encouragement and spur to me and my work. Welcome to come again next time.
(originally published in Resource Guide, No.9, 28, by Yuan Kelin, Lv Zhongyi and Li Yuhua)
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