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CCTV News (News Network): President Xi Jinping pointed out in his 2024 New Year's message that grain production has been abundant for 20 consecutive years, and rural revitalization has shown a new atmosphere. At the beginning of this year, in the field of hope, hundreds of millions of farmers began new cultivation, accelerated the construction of an agricultural power, and painted a new picture of rural revitalization.
In the cold winter, the snow-covered villages of Tohoku are still steaming. In Zhenxing Village, Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province, Yu Dianhong, the village party secretary, specially invited the live broadcast team of the e-commerce platform to open a special sales session of Wuchang rice for the village cooperative.
In Zhenzhen Village, located in the core rice-producing area of Wuchang, in early August last year, the village suffered a flood that had not been seen in many years, but everyone worked together to minimize the damage. The Spring Festival is approaching, Wuchang rice is ushering in a sales peak, and the villagers are working overtime to prepare New Year's orders.
In 2023, despite rare natural disasters, the mainland's grain production will still achieve 20 consecutive bumper harvests, and the grain output will reach a new high. Behind this hard-won bumper harvest answer, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has always regarded solving the problem of feeding more than one billion people as the top priority in governing the country.
In the past year, whether it is holding important meetings or conducting in-depth investigation and research at the grassroots level, General Secretary Xi Jinping has always attached great importance to food security. In Cangzhou, Hebei Province, he inspected the development and utilization of saline-alkali land and the promotion of saline-alkali tolerant varieties. In Bayannur, Inner Mongolia, he examines soil, seeds, and scientific irrigation. At the Central Rural Work Conference held at the end of last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions, pointing out that it is necessary to fully implement the joint responsibility of the party and government for food security, and adhere to the dual efforts of stabilizing the area and increasing yield.
A new journey, a new struggle.
At present, all localities are seizing the golden period of winter agricultural slack construction, and high-standard farmland construction is in full swing. In Jiangxi, the construction of high-standard farmland with a total investment of more than 8 billion yuan has driven more than 3,000 farmland in 93 counties and districts of the province to be upgraded and transformed.
This year, the mainland will continue to increase the area of new construction and renovation of high-standard farmland, add 100 new corn, 100 wheat and 102 rapeseed counties to promote the overall production of large areas, and start the soybean yield improvement project and the main production increase action.
This year, the mainland will continue to promote the research of key core technologies in agriculture, promote the self-reliance and self-improvement of seed industry science and technology, independent and controllable seed sources, and strengthen the support of agricultural machinery and equipment. Located in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, this agricultural machinery company, used to focus on small horsepower crawler tractors in the southern hilly areas, and now, they make the "small" agricultural machinery "big", the launch of 160 horsepower, 180 horsepower crawler tractors to fill the gap in the domestic market, the new batch of products off the assembly line at the beginning of the year was quickly booked out.
Today's Chinese countryside has gathered more "young people". More than 12 million young people who have returned to their hometowns to start their own businesses have realized their value and grown in the fields and mountains.
In the past few days, 100,000 acres of avocados in Menglian, Yunnan have matured one after another and entered the peak sales season. Da Meng, a "new farmer" who used to be a photographer, led the villagers to build an avocado-themed agriculture, culture and tourism comprehensive farm that will welcome the first guests during the Spring Festival.