On May 31, the Department of Natural Resources of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region issued the Rules for the Implementation of Standardized Land Use Management to Support the Development of Photovoltaic Power Generation Industry, which provides norms for strengthening the management of land use for photovoltaic power generation projects.
The detailed rules strictly prohibit new and expanded photovoltaic power generation projects from occupying permanent basic farmland, basic grassland, Grade I protected forest land and key state-owned forest areas in Northeast Inner Mongolia, and encourage the use of unused land such as deserts, Gobi and deserts to build large-scale photovoltaic bases. Measures such as standardizing land use management, strictly saving land, optimizing layout, rationally arranging the scale, layout and development timing of new land for photovoltaic power generation projects, and strengthening supervision and responsibility implementation will help " the rules will help promote the standardized development of photovoltaic power generation projects. Reduce the impact on the ecological environment and standardize the management of industrial land use. The " reads as follows:
II Planning Guidance
Article 3 Planning Connection. Special plans such as photovoltaic power generation industry development plan and green energy development plan should be fully linked up with land and space planning. The Natural Resources Bureau at the county level shall timely incorporate the key construction projects in the above-mentioned special planning into the list of key construction projects in the overall land and space planning at the county level.
The fourth is to optimize the layout. Strictly implement the management and control requirements of "three districts and three lines" in land and space planning, optimize the spatial layout of large-scale photovoltaic bases and photovoltaic power generation projects, and rationally arrange the scale, layout and development timing of new land for photovoltaic power generation projects. Article 5 of Chapter
III Scientific Site Selection
is strictly prohibited. It is strictly forbidden to build or expand photovoltaic power generation projects to occupy permanent basic farmland, basic grassland, Grade I protected forest land and key state-owned forest areas in Northeast Inner Mongolia. It is strictly forbidden to occupy cultivated land for photovoltaic array. Article
6 Reasonable avoidance. Photovoltaic power generation projects should avoid cultivated land, ecological protection red line, historical and cultural protection line, special natural landscape value and cultural identification area, natural forest land, national desertified land closed protection area (photovoltaic power generation project output line is allowed to cross the national desertified land closed protection area), etc. If the nature reserve is involved, it should also comply with the relevant regulations and policies of the nature reserve.
The seventh is to encourage utilization. On the premise of strict ecological protection, we encourage the use of unused land such as deserts, Gobi and deserts to build large-scale photovoltaic bases, and the part of land that does not occupy land and does not change the surface morphology can be managed according to the original land type without changing the land use. Encourage the use of oil fields, gas fields and coal mining subsidence areas and other stock construction land to build photovoltaic bases. Agricultural land that cannot be restored to its original use
due to coal mining subsidence may be changed to other types of agricultural land or unused land after verification by the Department of Natural Resources of the Autonomous Region in conjunction with relevant departments and with the consent of the land owner and approval by the Ministry of Natural Resources, and shall be managed according to the land type after the change. For the construction land of open-pit mine dump acquired according to law, the non-cultivated land area can be used for the construction of photovoltaic power generation projects after the reclamation acceptance is qualified. Chapter
IV Standardized Land Use
Article 8 Economical Land Use. Photovoltaic power generation projects should be reasonably divided into functional zones, control the scale of land use and save intensive land use according to the Control Index of Land Use for Photovoltaic Power Station Projects. Article
9 Rational use of land. If the land for photovoltaic power generation projects involves the occupation of forest land, the "forest-light complementary" mode shall be adopted, and if the occupation of grassland is involved, the "grass-light complementary" mode shall be encouraged. The
local forestry and grass department shall issue a confirmation opinion that the photovoltaic power generation project belongs to "complementary forest and light" or "complementary grass and light". For those who do not change the land use and are identified according to the original land type, they are allowed to acquire the land by leasing with the land owner. The two parties shall sign a compensation and lease agreement and report it to the competent department of natural resources, forestry and grass at the county level for the record. Article
10 Scope of forest use. The land for photovoltaic array can use the shrub land in the area with annual precipitation of less than 400 mm and the shrub land with coverage of less than 50% in other areas. Article
11 Requirements for forest use. Photovoltaic array land shall not cut trees, cut shrubs and destroy the original vegetation, and shall not erect photovoltaic panels after cutting and transforming arbor woodlands into shrub woodlands; The lowest point of photovoltaic panel support should be more than 1 meter higher than height of shrubs, and the net distance between each row of photovoltaic panels should be reasonably set in the north-south direction, and effective water and soil conservation measures should be taken to ensure that the growth status of shrubs such as coverage is not lower than level before "complementary forest and light". If the photovoltaic array uses the forest land according to the regulations, the project filing notice shall clearly require that the "forest-light complementary" mode must be adopted for construction, and the temporary use of forest land procedures shall be handled during the construction period. Article
12 Requirements for the use of grass. If the "grass-light complementary" mode is adopted for photovoltaic array land, the grassland soil structure or native vegetation shall not be destroyed. The lowest point of photovoltaic panel support should not be less than 1 meter, and the net spacing of photovoltaic panels should be reasonably designed to reduce the impact on grassland ecology. Article
13 Requirements for land use. The land for supporting facilities of photovoltaic power generation projects shall be managed according to the construction land, and the examination and approval procedures for construction land shall be handled in accordance with the law and regulations. Among them, if the occupation of cultivated land is involved, the balance of occupation and compensation shall be implemented according to the regulations. Roads that meet the standards of photovoltaic land use, are located inside and around the array, and directly support the photovoltaic array, can be managed as rural road land, involving the occupation of arable land, and the balance of access shall be implemented according to regulations. Other roads shall be managed as construction land. Article
14 Joint review mechanism. For photovoltaic power generation projects that meet the requirements of land and space planning and use control and are included in the "one map" of land and space planning, the competent departments of natural resources, forestry and grass, and energy at the county level shall conduct joint examination according to the scope of project establishment, and coordinate the examination of forest and grass for project land use. Chapter
V Supervision Responsibility
Article 15 Make full use of "one map" to implement supervision information system, land and space basic information platform and land and space use control and supervision system to implement the whole process of informatization supervision. Article
16 The competent department of natural resources at the county level shall be responsible for marking the land for photovoltaic array in a separate layer during the annual land change survey. The competent departments of natural resources at the municipal level of the League are responsible for bringing photovoltaic land into the scope of daily supervision according to the results of the change investigation, as the basis for land use supervision, and guiding the competent departments of natural resources at the county level to timely detect and seriously investigate illegal land use. The competent department of natural resources of the autonomous region is responsible for sharing the approved land use scope of photovoltaic power generation projects with the competent departments of forestry, grass and energy of the autonomous region in a timely manner as the basis for daily supervision of forest and grass use such as "complementary forest and light" and "complementary grass and light". Article
17 The competent forestry and grass authorities of the autonomous region shall be responsible for timely issuing the scope of "forest-light complementary" and "grass-light complementary" photovoltaic power generation projects to the competent forestry and grass authorities at the League and county levels. The competent forestry and grass authorities at the county level are responsible for the daily supervision of the use of forest and grass in photovoltaic arrays with "complementary forest and light" and "complementary grass and light", requiring that "complementary forest and light" and "complementary grass and light" should not change the land use, so as to ensure that the growth status of forest and grass is not lower than that before "complementary forest and light" and "complementary grass and light". Article
18 The competent energy department of the autonomous region shall be responsible for strictly checking the feasibility of the project. The competent energy department at the county level is responsible for supervising the land use units to restore the original land type in time after the expiration of the project service period.Chapter
VI Supplementary Provisions
Article 19 These Rules shall go into effect as of the date of issuance. Photovoltaic power generation projects approved before March 20, 2023 (including the commencement and non-commencement of construction) may be implemented in accordance with the preliminary review of land use and the relevant opinions on land use at the time of approval of project establishment, and shall not expand the area of project land and occupy the area of cultivated land, woodland and grassland; if the project has passed the preliminary review of land use or the local land use opinions have been clarified, but the project has not been approved, it shall be implemented in accordance with the requirements of these rules. Where the relevant policy requirements on land use for photovoltaic power generation projects
previously issued are inconsistent with these Rules, these Rules shall prevail.
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