Farmland Soil Pollution Legal Countermeasures Comparative Study Between China And Japan

Since1980, our country’s economic maintaining grows at the rate of over9%, while a variety of pollution problem increasing seriously. According to the incomplete statistics from the National Monitoring Department, China has nearly10million hectares of agricultural land have been polluted to varying degrees, which does not include use the contaminated water to irrigate, otherwise it will cover more than one-tenth of the country ’s arable land. It will not only injure the health of the majority of citizens, but serious harm to the legitimate interests of farmers and the food security.In the1960s and1970s, Japan are also facing the same problem, numbers of laws like "Basic Law for Environmental Pollution"," Farmland Soil Pollution Prevention Law","Soil Contamination Countermeasures Law","Correction soil Contamination Countermeasures Law" and other series of laws are established to prevent the risk of contamination. Contaminated areas designated, contaminated area surveillance, pollution investigation responsibility for the content of agricultural soil pollution control legal system and for the common agricultural soil contaminants such as cadmium, copper and arsenic established strict testing and governance standards. However, for the purposes of soil pollution countermeasures of agricultural land, the relevant provisions of farmland pollution, although something has been involved in the "Environmental Protection Law" and the "Soil Environmental Quality Standards Act", but the country has not issued specific laws and regulations this specific requirement. In the governance body of agricultural soil pollution, governance and specific criteria, it is also no specific practical requirements. But the positive is that soil pollution has attracted the attention of our government as well as experts and scholars. Since2006, China’s special legal treatment of soil contaminated "Soil Pollution Prevention Law" research and preparatory work has already started in the same year, soil pollution survey which costing billions of dollars has been started. The "Integrated Control of Heavy Metal Pollution Plan (2010-2015)" preparation work has been completed. This paper compares the history of Japan’s agricultural land soil pollution and soil contamination with China’s actual situation of agricultural land, in quest for soil remediation and decontamination of agricultural land on the basis of common objectives, drawing on the experience of Japan and the accumulation of soil pollution control laws and regulations of agricultural land and new technologies, to seek agricultural soil pollution control strategies for sustainable development.