Kema parish in Transbaikal? ..
This story began to gain momentum more than two months ago. First, the Governor of Transbaikalia Konstantin Ilkovsky said that the regional authorities sat down at the negotiating table with a Chinese company Zoje Resources Investment (ZRI) to discuss the issue of “joint implementation of the project in the agrarian sphere”. It turned out that local authorities are going to transfer the Chinese company (by the way, known not for agrarian achievements, but for the production of sewing equipment) about 115 thousand hectares of agricultural land for rent for a period of 49 years. Well, as if "temporarily" ...
It would seem that the governor of Transbaikalia overheated in the June (at that time - June) sun, and therefore gave such a heresy.
However, just a few days after Mr. Ilkovsky’s statements, the authoritative Chinese newspaper Renmin jibao released a report stating that the negotiations between the representatives of the ZRI company and the leadership of the Trans-Baikal Territory were “successful”, and that the land was leased to the ZRI subsidiary - " Hue Xinbang. "
In the material of the Chinese newspaper ( link) from 10 June 2015 of the year literally the following is reported:
The wasteland is located in Transbaikalia, the length of its common border with the south and southeast of China and Mongolia is 1500 km. According to the announced calculations, rental of fallow lands and pastures will be 250 rubles per hectare per year, the total amount for 49 years will be 176 million yuan.
In other words, the landlord will receive 28,75 million rubles per year from such an “effective solution”. “Enviable investment”, you will not say anything ... The ex-governor of the Sakhalin region cost the pen more expensive ...
The most interesting thing is that even the state press organ of the CCP, which Renmin Jibao is, according to the article itself, could not explain why it was Ilkovsky who agreed on the “sewing” Zoje Resources Investment investment, and on what basis .
The Chinese newspaper, so that, as they say, “not to be pounded”, simply referred to the Chita resource Chita.ruby writing:
HUA Xinbahn plans to rent land for the cultivation of fodder, grain, oilseeds and other crops, as well as pharmaceutical herbs, the development of animal husbandry, poultry farming and meat animal husbandry.
It is noted that if the project is implemented successfully, then already in 2018, the same Chinese company will receive a new “gift” from the Trans-Baikal leadership in the form of another 85 thousand hectares of land.
Representatives of the Chinese company, which is now the tenant of Russian land, in an interview with local publications reported that at least 2 thousand people would be required to cultivate the land received for rent, adding that, according to the Trans-Baikal governor, “there are no such number of workers in the specified region” . It seems to be a hint that “you have to deliver” ... An interesting statement, especially if we take into account the fact that the unemployment rate in Transbaikalia (Rosstat data) is about 10% (it is almost twice as high as the average Russian).
And representatives of the Chinese company said that, it turns out, competition for the right to lease Trans-Baikal lands is no longer just between representatives of Chinese business.
The same Renmin Jibao quotes a representative of Huaxing Corporation, Li Deming:
If you believe the Chinese businessman, then soon the Far Eastern land will begin to lease land not only to companies from the PRC, but also, probably, companies from Japan and even the United States ...
Indirectly, this information is confirmed by the first deputy head of the government of the Trans-Baikal Territory, Alexei Shemetov, who said that in order to attract investment in the region, one can take the path of leasing Trans-Baikal lands to “Mongolian investors”.
Mongolian investors? This is strong ...
Attention is drawn to the fact that the “Mongolian investors” themselves, as announced by Shemetov, seemed to show no interest in renting land in the Trans-Baikal. It turns out that local authorities themselves "woo" the provincial lands, explaining that "by the need to attract foreign investment."
In my time Interfax published Mr. Shemetov’s statement:
Only now, judging by the vigorous activity of the local authorities, only one “investment direction” is being implemented - leasing of land to foreign companies, which, referring to the same Trans-Baikal authorities, declare that there are not enough Russians to implement investment projects ...
Well, what is the problem? - can say someone from the business, - said the same: investment, rent, profit - nothing personal ...
And the problem is that after the same 49 years, Russia may already have to “rent” its own land from Mongolia, China and other “investors” ... If at all about the fact that it was a lease, someone by that time he will remember, because in the course of 49 years a lot of water is leaking, a lot of “guests” run into ...
So what is the continuation of this more than dubious "rental" story? First, the fact that the State Duma deputies (for example, Nikolai Arefyev from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation) appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a statement about the need to conduct an inspection on the fact of the actions of the authorities of the Trans-Baikal Territory. And, secondly, in the fact that for more than two months the assessment of the actions of Transbaykal officials by the GP of the Russian Federation was never given. Apparently, it is very difficult to give this assessment ... And because these same officials, who have attracted "crazy" investments, continue to occupy their chairs. That is, there is no “loss of confidence”? ..
Does this mean that any government official at the regional level, making declarative statements about the need to accumulate foreign investment, can “rent out” any land in the region at least for 9, at least for 49, at least for 99 years? If so, I would like to see the clause of the Russian Constitution, on which in this case the authorities rely ...
Although they are trying to explain everything to the citizens of Russia in the way that, they say, agricultural land is leased not only to foreign investors, but to certain companies with joint capital. But Russian capital in such joint companies is no more than 50% ... But if Russian businessmen still have capital in these “joint” projects, what prevented these businessmen from investing in development without the participation of foreign, as they say, Russian regions? Let it be an investment in renting a non 115 vehicle. ha, and 50 thousand ha with the creation of not 2-3-x thousand jobs, but five hundred thousand - for Russians who really want to work.
In the meantime, how does the leadership of the Trans-Baikal Territory differ fundamentally, for example, from the leadership of Ukraine, which is ready to transfer land, deposits, ports and even customs points to the hands of “foreign investors”? ..
PS In this regard, it is necessary to pay attention to the petition published on the Web by user Katerina Gromova from Yasnogorsk, opposing the transfer of Russian land to companies with a predominant foreign capital. The text of the petition can be found by clicking here to register:.
- Alexei Volodin
- http://www.забайкальскийкрай.рф
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