湖南省人民政府办公厅近日发出《关于进一步规范和完善农民建房收费规定的通知》。《通知》规定，农民建房收费额将由过去几千元甚至上万元，降至500元以下。如果农民在原宅基地上或在荒山、荒坡、空坪隙地上建房，收费额每户仅为18元。《通知》说，去年12月以来，湖南省对农民 Recently, the General Office of Hunan Provincial People’s Government issued the Circular on Further Regularizing and Perfecting the Rules on Farmers’ Building Charges. The “Circular” stipulates that the amount of fees charged by farmers for housing construction will be reduced from the past few thousand yuan or even tens of thousands of yuan to less than 500 yuan. If the peasants built houses on the original homestead or on barren hills, barren slopes and empty ceilings, the fee will only be 18 yuan per household. The “Circular” said that since December last year, Hunan Province has given farmers