"General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed at the Central Rural Work Conference that 'using the strength of the whole party and the whole society to promote rural revitalization, promote high-quality and efficient agriculture, livable and workable in rural areas, and rich and prosperous farmers', which has pointed out the direction for Zhangzhou to accelerate agricultural and rural modernization." During the two sessions of the National People's Congress, Liu Yuan, deputy to the National People's Congress and mayor of Zhangzhou City, said in an exclusive interview with reporters that as a large agricultural city, Zhangzhou will plan to develop modern agriculture with the concept of industrialization and industrialization thinking, vigorously promote the legalization of agricultural business entities, the standardization of production, the specialization of industries, the greening of development, the branding of marketing, and the socialization of services, continuously improve the level of development of modern agriculture with characteristics, and accelerate the march toward a strong agricultural city.
Liu Yuan believes: "The development of modern agriculture in Zhangzhou must make a fuss about 'characteristics'. In 2020, Zhangzhou held the city's modern agricultural development conference, issued the "Three-year Action Plan for the Development of Modern Agriculture in Zhangzhou City", focused on the implementation of the "six major actions" and "six hundred projects" of modern agriculture to improve quality and efficiency, and focused on creating a modern agricultural industrial chain featuring "three flowers, four rare mushrooms, five bubble tea, six fish, and ten fruits". At present, the total output value of the whole industry chain of 11 advantageous characteristic industries has exceeded 300 billion yuan. The city has carried out the "Three-Year Action for Modern Agricultural Development" with a total reserve of 342 projects, and by the end of 2020, 282 projects have been started, with an investment of 7.94 billion yuan.
"We must do a good job of the 'carrier + subject' article." Liu Yuan said that as the first batch of national modern agricultural demonstration zones built in the whole city, Zhangzhou grasps the construction of modern agricultural parks like industrial parks, continues to promote the construction of 3 state-level agricultural industry strong towns and 3 provincial-level modern agricultural industrial parks, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" will create 10 more modern agricultural industrial parks at or above the municipal level and 20 state-level agricultural industry strong towns. At the same time, we will vigorously cultivate new types of business entities such as leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, farmers' cooperatives and family farms, improve the interest linkage mechanism of "leading enterprises + farmers' cooperatives + family farms + growers", and promote the integration of small farmers into the development of modern agriculture. There are 10 national-level key leading enterprises and 182 provincial-level key leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization in the city, and 15,000 registered family farms and farmers' cooperatives.
"We must rely on science and technology empowerment and innovation-driven." Liu Yuan pointed out that in recent years, Zhangzhou has accelerated the development of digital agriculture, smart agriculture, and facility agriculture, created 5 provincial-level modern agricultural wisdom parks, organized the implementation of the "Double Hundred Action" of 100 agricultural experts to serve 100 agricultural enterprises, and reached strategic cooperation with Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University and the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and established the Zhangzhou Branch of the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences to promote agricultural cost reduction and efficiency improvement with the help of scientific and technological innovation.
Agriculture for Taiwan is a major advantage of Zhangzhou, and the city's cumulative approval of Taiwan-funded agricultural enterprises accounts for more than 45% of the province. Liu Yuan said that Zhangzhou will improve the normalized exchange mechanism with Taiwan's grass-roots farmers' associations, industry associations and other organizations, improve the level of platform construction such as Taiwan Farmers' Entrepreneurship Park and Fujian-Taiwan Agricultural Integration Development Industrial Park, and further promote the deep integration of modern agriculture with Zhangtai characteristics.
"In the future, we will base ourselves on the mission of 'three rural areas' in the new development stage, adhere to the priority development of agriculture and rural areas, continue to promote agricultural quality and efficiency, and embark on a new agricultural modernization path with advanced production technology, moderate operation scale, strong market competitiveness and sustainable ecological environment." Liu Yuan said. (Fujian Daily reporter Huang Rufei Su Yijie)
Source: Southeast Net
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