In recent years, with the continuous advancement of infrastructure construction in large eastern countries, land acquisition, demolition and resettlement and other related issues have attracted much social attention. In this process, the legitimate rights and interests of many farmers and rural entrepreneurs have been infringed upon from time to time, and some illegal forced demolition incidents have also occurred from time to time. Recently, the illegal demolition of the pear orchard of a returning college student in Ye County, Henan Province, has sparked heated discussions, and has also inspired people to speculate on how to better protect the legitimate rights and interests of individuals in promoting infrastructure construction.
1. Event review: What is the story behind the illegal demolition of the pear orchard?
Recently, an illegal demolition incident in Ye County, Henan Province has spread on the Internet, causing widespread attention and heated discussions. The person involved in this incident is a returning college student named Jia Ke, who has worked hard to run a 7-acre pear orchard in his hometown in Ye County, which has become a beautiful local landscape and has also made positive contributions to the economic development of his hometown.
Just as Jaco was happily preparing for the harvest, a notice about the expropriation of the pear orchard shattered his dream. The local authorities were going to build a highway, and Jaco's pear orchard happened to be within the planned scope of the road and needed to be requisitioned to make way for it.
In response to this notice, Jia Ke said that he is not opposed to the country's infrastructure construction, but hopes that the authorities can give reasonable compensation, after all, this pear orchard is the fruit of his hard work for nearly ten years, and it is also a guarantee for his future livelihood.
While Jia Ke was negotiating with the authorities, a group of people suddenly broke into the pear orchard, began to cut down the fruit trees, and forcibly demolished the fence of the pear orchard.
Through Jia Ke's exposure video, it can be seen that these people did not show any relevant procedures, and they destroyed the pear orchard without authorization, and under Jia Ke's obstruction, they even beat him, which has seriously violated the law and belongs to illegal occupation and intentional injury.
2. The focus of the dispute: how to make reasonable compensation is a major problem
The development of the matter has not been effectively resolved because of Jia Ke's filming and exposure, on the contrary, the contradictions between him and the authorities have become more and more intense, and the core problem revolves around "how to reasonably compensate".
In the compensation plan of the authorities, they gave a compensation plan based on some relevant local documents, according to which Jia Ke's pear orchard can only receive a total of more than 180,000 yuan in compensation, and they need to promise that there will be no other recourse.
Jia Ke believes that the compensation plan of the authorities is not reasonable, because this pear orchard is not an ordinary orchard, but an economic forest, and he has also carried out a series of facilities and improvements on this pear orchard, so it should be compensated according to the standard of economic forest, so that the amount of compensation will be greatly increased.
However, the authorities did not adopt Jia Ke's opinion, they believed that their compensation plan was very fair and reasonable, and it was also implemented in accordance with the relevant national policies, so there was no need for other consultations, which made Jia Ke very helpless and touched the bottom line of his interests.
3. Social Repercussions: How to balance the public interest and individual rights and interests?
As soon as such a "pear orchard was forcibly demolished" incident was exposed, it sparked a wide range of heated discussions on the Internet, and everyone's views on this incident were also different.
Some people feel that there is nothing wrong with what the authorities are doing, and they believe that Jia Ke is just an ordinary farmer who does not have the relevant legal knowledge, so when faced with the authorities' compensation plan, he should obey the authorities' arrangements, and should no longer resist needlessly, let alone make his grievances public.
There are also some people who hold a different view, they feel that Jia Ke's approach is correct, because as a citizen, he has the right to defend his legitimate rights and interests, and he also has the right to question and pursue the compensation plan of the authorities, and the authorities should also listen to the public and give a reasonable response.
In this case, we should not simply regard the "forced demolition of the pear orchard" as a contradiction between individuals and the authorities, but should guess from a higher level, that is, how to better balance the relationship between public interests and individual rights and interests in promoting infrastructure construction.
It is understandable that the country's infrastructure construction is inseparable from land acquisition and demolition and resettlement, and the public interest involved is very important, but it is not possible to ignore the legitimate rights and interests of individuals, so in practice, the authorities should pay more attention to the openness and transparency of the procedure, but also fully respect the opinions of the parties, give reasonable compensation, and establish an effective supervision mechanism, so that farmers and rural entrepreneurs can participate in the relevant decision-making process, so as to better protect their legitimate rights and interests. It can also make infrastructure construction go more smoothly.
epilogue
Whether it is farmers or rural entrepreneurs, we should enhance the awareness of safeguarding our own rights and interests, and also learn to defend our rights through legal channels, and the authorities should also pay more attention to public participation and listen to different voices, so as to find better solutions, and hope that in the future work, similar incidents can be effectively resolved. It can also bring more positive impact to the local economic development.
Resources
The pear orchard was forcibly demolished, what kind of interest entanglement is behind it?. People's Daily, 2022(10):A01.
How to protect the legitimate rights and interests of farmers due to frequent forced demolitions? Economic Daily, 2022(10):B03.