Recently, under the pretext of environmental protection needs, the government of China’s Tangshan City’s Fengrun District destroyed hundreds of mu of well-grown wheat saplings and planted tree saplings instead, without the villagers’ consent. After the villagers disclosed the news to the media, the local government saw the momentum and immediately asked to pull out all the saplings that had just been planted, which netizens angrily denounced as a blind toss.
According to media reports in mainland China, the local government in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, has forced several villages to transfer their farmland to a company on the pretext of preventing air pollution, with the intention of creating a so-called “forest park” with artificially planted trees. The local authorities have not yet obtained the villagers’ consent, but they have forcibly eradicated a monopoly of well-grown wheat saplings and planted them with saplings.
Some villagers complained to the media that the cultivated land is the villagers’ food ration land, but they could not imagine that the wheat seedlings were cut up without their consent, just for a meal at home. The villagers are very angry with the local government for this mandatory “destruction of seedlings” practice.
The villagers revealed that more than 2,500 mu of arable land in four villages in Fengrun Township, Fengrun District, had been forcibly “rented” to a company for 10 years at an annual rent of 1,200 yuan per mu.
When the local media went to the interview, the local district government claimed that they planned to turn the 2,000 mu of farmland into an urban forest park because of the pressure of environmental protection in Tangshan City, an arrangement made by the local government to “tackle the prevention and control of air pollution”.
The official media of the Chinese Communist Party said in a news report that this year’s meteorological year is not optimistic, major pests and diseases are also on the rise, to ensure a good harvest of grain is crucial. The central government is now investigating the “non-foodification of arable land”, and the Tangshan City Fengrun District has directly turned arable land into forest land, which is obviously against the spirit of the relevant documents.
When the local government in Fengrun District saw that the momentum was not right, they immediately asked to uproot the trees they had just planted. The construction workers were asked to finish pulling up all those saplings within 3 days.
The video clip in question was recently reposted to overseas social media by Chinese netizens, who left messages criticizing the Fengrun District officials for their blindness.
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