Six departments including the Ministry of Agriculture will conduct spot checks on farmers' burdens nationwide

This website news  In order to further improve the supervision of farmers' burdens, according to the requirements of the Ministry of Agriculture and five other departments in the "Opinions on Doing a Good Job in Reducing Farmers' Burdens in 2015" regarding joint supervision and inspection of the implementation of burden-reducing and benefit-to-farmers policies, a joint inspection team composed of six departments, including the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Education, and the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, will recently conduct spot checks on the burden situation of farmers in 3 provinces, including Shanxi, Zhejiang, and Guizhou.

The spot checks focus on 6 items: first, the situation of agriculture-related fees and prices; second, the situation of charging and apportioning fees to village-level organizations; third, the situation of fundraising and labor mobilization through the one-case-one-discussion system; fourth, the extension of farmers' burden supervision to rural infrastructure construction, rural public services, new types of agricultural business entities, and the implementation of benefit-to-farmers policies; fifth, the implementation of burden-reduction-related systems; sixth, new situations and new problems faced by farmers' burden supervision in coordinating urban and rural development and building a new socialist countryside.

The inspection team will adopt a combination of inspection and research, and open inspections and unannounced visits, going deep into villages, farming households, and agriculture-related fee-collecting units, focusing on inspecting and researching the implementation of burden-reducing and benefit-to-farmers policies and gaining an in-depth understanding of the burden situation of farmers, family farms, farmers' cooperatives, and village-level organizations. During the inspection, where burden-reducing and benefit-to-farmers policies are not implemented, the inspection team will instruct local authorities to handle the matter seriously in accordance with the "Guiding Principles for Handling Relevant Issues During Farmers' Burden Inspections." This inspection must strictly implement the relevant requirements of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and integrity discipline.