Why does the pressure for cultivated land requisition-compensation balance in China keep increasing?

The "Land Remediation Blue Book: China Land Remediation Development Research Report No.2," jointly released by the Land Remediation Center of the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Social Sciences Academic Press, points out that for a long time, China's economic development has relied excessively on investment-driven growth and high resource consumption, and construction has occupied a large amount of cultivated land. According to the Second National Land Survey, in the 13 years from the "First Survey" in 1996 to the "Second Survey" in 2009 alone, the country lost more than 200 million mu of cultivated land due to construction occupation, ecological conversion of farmland, structural adjustment, and disaster destruction, most of which was high-quality cultivated land. The 5 southeastern coastal provinces alone reduced paddy fields by 17.98 million mu, equivalent to wiping out the entire province of Fujian's paddy field area. Calculated according to the standard of one-ton-per-mu grain fields, this is equivalent to a loss of 18 billion kg of grain production capacity.

The report states that at present, the total amount of construction land in 12 provinces across the country has already approached the 2020 planning control target set by the "National Land Use Master Plan," and the pressure for cultivated land requisition-compensation balance is continuously increasing. In the coming period, various types of construction will inevitably still occupy part of the cultivated land, and most of what is occupied will still be high-quality cultivated land in the urban-rural fringe.