On June 16, Xinhua Daily Telegraph published an article entitled "Landfill Construction Waste, Sudden Dumping Reclamation.." -- a report on the investigation of the destruction of farmland and the illegal mining of sand and gravel at the border between Jiangsu and Shandong. The surface of
cultivated land is mixed with construction waste, and the deep pits formed by sudden dumping of soil and rotary tillage pretend to be reclaimed have not been repaired. Ganyu District of Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, borders Junan County of Linyi, Shandong Province, and the underground at the junction of Zhewang Town and Tuanlin Town of the two places is rich in ore resources, resulting in frequent destruction of arable land and illegal mining of sand and gravel.
Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporters recently saw in the border area between the two provinces that the problem of small scattered land destruction and illegal land occupation and sand washing was intertwined, resulting in many agricultural land scarred. However, the lack of timely and adequate information exchange between the two places and the failure to establish a long-term linkage law enforcement mechanism also provide opportunities for illegal mining gangs.
summer harvest season, the reporter came to Huojiaguanzhuang Village, Zhewang Town, Ganyu District, Lianyungang City. The northern part of the village is adjacent to Tuanlin Town, Junan County, Shandong Province, where a large number of crops such as peanuts, sweet potatoes and soybeans are planted. In a field, a yellow excavator is leveling the land, which is very eye-catching.
The reporter walked forward and saw that there were solid wastes such as red bricks and plastics in the earthwork piled up on one side. The person in charge of organizing the construction at the site told reporters that the reason why there was construction waste in the field was that it used to be a cement floor piled with sand.
Reporters noted that after excavators dug nearly half a meter deep in the middle of the plot, they could still see a large number of red bricks, gravel, and even bicycle tires, toilet seats and other waste. The land cadres of Junan County and Ganyu District who were present had different opinions about this: one side said that this was once a road, and the other side said that this was once a ditch. This piece of farmland is not the only one
with problems. Two or three hundred meters to the east of the above plot, soybeans and poplars are planted on a piece of farmland. From a distance, it is not much different from the general agricultural land. When you get closer, you can see that the crops and trees are very sparse and disorderly, and the farmland is also mixed with red bricks and cement blocks. Villagers
nearby dug three points randomly with pickaxes, and a large amount of construction waste could still be seen. Dozens of meters north of the plot, a 78-meter-long sand washing machine was covered with rust, and the sand beside it piled up into hills. The west side belongs to the agricultural land of Shandong Province, where a large number of bricks, stones and sandy soil are also piled up. A land cadre from
Jiangsu Province introduced to reporters with a satellite image map that a hardened road had appeared in the plot in 2018 and was restored to its original state after demolition in 2019, and there has been no significant change so far. After receiving public opinion that this was once a sand-stealing site for construction waste backfilling, they dug two deep samples at the site and found that they were all sandy soil, and there was no problem of landfilling construction waste.
"Is it necessary to dig and sample?"? In April this year, the day after he reported the problem to the cadres of Zhewang Town, Ganyu District, the plot was suddenly covered with raw soil, and later the villagers planted crops. "The soybeans grown here are dwarfed by those grown elsewhere." The villager said. During the
reporter's visit, he happened to encounter a similar "decoration" reclamation. On a farm plot in the northwest corner of Huojiaguanzhuang Village, some villagers said that the plot had also been stolen and mined, and the silt from sand washing had once piled up into a mountain, which had just been cleaned up recently. When the reporter went there the night before, he saw that although the plot had been filled up, construction waste was still faintly visible, and when the reporter went there again the next morning, the plot was again covered with soil and leveled, and rotary tilled into ridges. After digging down more than 10 centimeters, the accompanying villagers still found a large number of stones and debris. In April
this year, the local self-Media "Laoguang Media" in Lianyungang exposed the sand mining activities of the local sand washing yard owner since the year before in the form of videos and pictures. Chen Moumou, the original author of the report, said that the situation he reflected was true and led reporters to visit the site of the incident.
The reporter spent several days squatting in the border area of Sulu and visited more than ten villagers in the fields. When asked whether there was destruction of farmland and illegal mining of sand and gravel here, they all thought that this was a well-known phenomenon. "Last night someone stole it and crushed my peach tree." A Shandong villager surnamed Li, who was plowing the land, pointed to a small road across the Jiangsu boundary and said that the land had been dug and now filled in. Behind the
hidden reclamation, there is an open secret of destroying farmland and stealing mining, and there are many deep pits on both sides of the border area, which exposes the craziness of illegal mining here.
On the east side of the road at the entrance of Huojiaguanzhuang Village, a pit pond is half the size of a football field. On the section with a depth of more than ten meters, the teeth marks of excavators and rakes can be seen faintly. On the south side of the pond, there is a slope, which looks like a ramp for carts to transport earth. According to a criminal judgment obtained by the
reporter, in June 2017, in the absence of a mining license, Huo Yifu, the former general secretary of the Party branch of Huojiaguanzhuang Village, instructed and arranged Wang Moumou, a villager who knew that he had not obtained a mining license, to illegally mine nearly 30000 ores in the above-mentioned pits and ponds by the latter. Then it was transported to the sand washing point for washing, part of which was used for road construction in the village, and the rest was sold by Wang Mou-mou for profit. Huo Mou-mou and Wang Mou-mou were sentenced to three years and two months and two years and eight months respectively for illegal mining.
"Before me, some people and even village cadres had been stealing and mining without permission. Why didn't they catch them? I was sentenced for building roads and mining sand for the village." Huo Yifu was indignant about his experience. He said that he did not know about Wang Moumou's profit from the sale of ore, and he did not divide the spoils. After his release from prison, he has been appealing, and has repeatedly reported in real name that many agricultural land in the village has been stolen and backfilled with construction waste, some sand washing sites have no land use procedures, occupying agricultural land for long-term operation.
At the junction of the two provinces, a large number of sand and stone materials were piled up in a site named Lianyungang Haotong Renewable Resources Co., Ltd. The door was closed and the roar of the machine could not be heard. Recently, after the company was reported by villagers to purchase and process stolen sand and gravel, the relevant local departments found that the land use procedures were incomplete and illegal, which would be handed over to Zhewang Town in accordance with the urban and rural planning law.
In addition, local village cadres have been exposed to rent agricultural land for illegal construction of sand and gravel factories. It is reported that Qin Mou, former Party branch secretary of Dongwugong Village in Zhewang Town, rented 59 mu of agricultural land in Huojiaguanzhuang Village in 2016 and invested in the establishment of Lianyungang Tianhuifu Mining Co., Ltd. with 169 mu of actual enclosure for the construction of a stone processing plant with an annual capacity of 600000 tons. The reporter learned from the Natural Resources and Planning Bureau of Ganyu District, Lianyungang City, that in September 2020, the company was investigated by the land department and transferred to the public security department on suspicion of illegally occupying and destroying arable land. In November 2021, the relevant criminal suspect were captured and the above-ground buildings of Tianhuifu Company were demolished.
Reporters noted that as early as 2020, Ganyu District Procuratorate and Junan County Procuratorate jointly carried out special law enforcement and supervision activities on illegal sand mining in the border area. "The procuratorate has taken action, which shows that sand mining was rampant at that time, and large-scale illegal mining was rare, but small and scattered illegal mining was still difficult to ban." You Hongbao, a cadre of the Natural Resources and Planning Bureau of Junan County, said that some land in the border area needed to be reclaimed due to sand theft.
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" In recent years, the border area between Shandong and Shandong provinces has intensified its efforts to crack down on illegal mining, and strengthened its inspection by means of scientific and technological means such as intersection cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles. The cadres and masses interviewed believed that in order to solve the problem of illegal mining, besides upgrading the technical means, it is more important to face up to the problem of law enforcement mechanism of "each managing one piece" and the phenomenon of grass-roots cadres suspected of colluding with illegal mining gangs. The persistent problem of
border governance has not yet been solved. The border area between Zhewang Town and Tuanlin Town is located in the border area between Jiangsu and Shandong provinces and three cities, during which there are a large number of "flower arrangement fields". Some illegal mining gangs take advantage of the characteristics of unclear boundaries and difficult supervision in the border area to destroy fields and open sand washing factories and stone factories in violation of regulations. However, there is no information exchange and joint law enforcement mechanism between the two towns.
"Illegal mining and sand washing usually occur at night and in the early morning, and it is difficult to find them." The relevant person in charge of Junan County Self-Regulation Bureau said that the county law enforcement officers found the clues of illegal mining in the area under their jurisdiction and went forward to check, and the criminal gangs quickly transferred the equipment to the Jiangsu boundary, but once they crossed the border, they had no law enforcement power and watched the illegal mining personnel slip away. The role of
town and village cadres as sentinels is out of order. Villagers and cadres interviewed believed that local village cadres and township land and public security cadres were close to the grass-roots level and were most likely to find clues to illegal mining. However, some town and village cadres turned a blind eye to such illegal acts, resulting in the failure of sentinels.The
cadres and the masses interviewed believed that illegal mining seriously damaged cultivated land, and suggested that Jiangsu and Shandong should strengthen cooperation, explore the establishment of joint law enforcement mechanisms in border counties, districts and townships, and take the lead on a rotating basis to jointly crack down on illegal mining.
For the agricultural land with obvious landfill solid waste, the territorial government and relevant departments should excavate and clean up as soon as possible. For the deep pits formed by long-term illegal mining in history, ecological restoration should be carried out in time to eliminate "decorative" re-cultivation and reduce abandonment. At the same time, the discipline inspection commissions of the two places and other departments should strictly investigate and punish the phenomenon of self-theft by grass-roots cadres, and cut off the chain of interest transmission between them and the illegal mining gangs.
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