The State Council issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Promoting Agricultural and Rural Modernization"

Beijing, 11 Feb (Xinhua) -- The work of "three rural areas" is the most important task in comprehensively building a modern socialist country. A few days ago, the State Council issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Promoting Agricultural and Rural Modernization" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), which makes comprehensive arrangements for the strategic orientation, main objectives, key tasks and policy measures for promoting agricultural and rural modernization during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, enhances the support and guarantee capacity of agriculture and rural areas for economic and social development and the stable role of the "ballast stone", and continuously improves the living standards of farmers.

The "Plan" pointed out that to promote the modernization of agriculture and rural areas with Chinese characteristics, we must adhere to ten strategic orientations, basically solve the problem of eating the people on the mainland based on the domestic situation, consolidate and improve the basic rural management system, guide small farmers to enter the track of modern agricultural development, strengthen the support of agricultural science and technology and equipment, promote the development of the entire agricultural industrial chain, orderly promote rural construction, strengthen and innovate rural governance, promote the integration of urban and rural development, promote the sustainable development of agriculture and rural areas, and promote the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.

The "Planning" proposes that, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to the priority development of agriculture and rural areas, adhere to the integrated design and promotion of agricultural modernization and rural modernization, take the promotion of high-quality development as the theme, take ensuring supply and security and revitalizing smooth circulation as the work positioning, deepen the structural reform of the agricultural supply side, put rural construction in an important position in socialist modernization, realize the consolidation and expansion of the results of poverty alleviation and the effective connection with rural revitalization, and comprehensively promote rural industry, talent, culture and ecology Organize revitalization, accelerate the formation of a new type of urban-rural relationship between workers and peasants that promote each other, urban and rural complementary, coordinated development, and common prosperity, and promote high-quality and efficient agriculture, livable and workable rural areas, and rich and prosperous farmers.

The "Plan" makes it clear that by 2025, the agricultural foundation will be more stable, the rural revitalization strategy will be comprehensively promoted, and important progress will be made in agricultural and rural modernization. Echelons promote qualified areas to take the lead in basically realizing agricultural and rural modernization, and poverty alleviation areas to achieve consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation results and rural revitalization effective connection. Looking forward to 2035, decisive progress has been made in the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, and the modernization of agriculture and rural areas has been basically realized.

The Plan arranges seven development tasks. The first is to consolidate the foundation of agricultural production, implement the principle of storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology, improve the guarantee mechanism of supplementing it with profit and supplementing it with righteousness, and improve the level of supply guarantee for grain and other important agricultural products. The second is to promote innovation-driven development, further promote agricultural scientific and technological innovation, improve and improve the operating mechanism, promote the cultivation of varieties, quality improvement, brand building and standardized production, and enhance the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of agriculture. The third is to build a modern rural industrial system, accelerate the integrated development of rural first, second, and third industries, leave the main body of the industrial chain in the county, leave employment opportunities and value-added benefits of the industrial chain to farmers, and improve the modernization level of the industrial chain supply chain. The fourth is to implement rural construction actions, focusing on convenient transportation, convenient living, service quality, and a beautiful environment, and building livable and workable villages. The fifth is to strengthen the construction of rural ecological civilization, promote the green and low-carbon transformation of rural production and lifestyle, and build green and beautiful villages. The sixth is to strengthen and improve rural governance, accelerate the construction of a rural governance system that combines autonomy and rule of law and rule by virtue under the leadership of party organizations, and build civilized and harmonious villages. The seventh is to achieve the effective connection between consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, enhance the endogenous development capacity of poverty alleviation areas, so that the people who have been lifted out of poverty can live a better life and gradually embark on the road of common prosperity.

The "Planning" plans 58 major projects, actions and plans in nine aspects, such as the safety and security of important agricultural products such as grain, the improvement of the rural industrial chain supply chain, the construction of rural public infrastructure, and the construction of a modern rural governance system, and puts forward reform measures such as smoothing the circulation of urban and rural elements, deepening the reform of the rural property rights system, improving the agricultural support and protection system, and expanding the opening up of agriculture to the outside world, and requires a sound implementation mechanism to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan.