HARBIN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The No. 1 Central Document of 2024 deploys the key work in the field of "agriculture, agriculture and rural areas" this year. Adhere to and strengthen the party's overall leadership over the "three rural" work, anchor the goal of building an agricultural power, take the experience of learning and applying the "Ten Million Project" as the guide, ensure national food security, ensure that there is no large-scale return to poverty as the bottom line, and focus on improving the level of rural industry development, rural construction and rural governance...... The document draws a clear "road map" for the "three rural" work in 2024 and a period in the future from many aspects.
Stabilize the fundamentals of agriculture
This year's No. 1 document of the central government proposes to ensure national food security, do a good job in the production of grain and important agricultural products, strictly implement the cultivated land protection system, strengthen the construction of agricultural infrastructure, strengthen the support of agricultural science and technology, build a modern agricultural management system, enhance the ability to regulate and control grain and important agricultural products, and continue to deepen various actions for food conservation.
"This year's No. 1 central document proposes to put the focus of increasing grain production on a large area to increase yield. Qian Qian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that it is necessary to strengthen the support of agricultural science and technology, and integrate and promote good opportunities and good methods for good land. In terms of seed innovation, the current crop breeding is developing in the direction of digitalization, informatization and intelligence, and it is necessary to accelerate the digitization of germplasm resources, realize the integration of biotechnology and information technology as soon as possible, further transform the advantages of germplasm resources into breeding innovation advantages, and create better varieties.
Jiang Ming, director of the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that it is necessary to pay equal attention to improving the quality of cultivated land and improving the ecological environment, increase the construction of agricultural infrastructure, build high-standard farmland according to local conditions, and coordinate the promotion of key tasks such as the protection of black soil and the comprehensive development and utilization of saline-alkali land.
Hold on to the bottom line of people's livelihood
This year's No. 1 document of the central government proposes to ensure that there is no large-scale return to poverty, implement a monitoring and assistance mechanism to prevent poverty return, continue to strengthen industrial and employment assistance, and increase assistance and support for key areas.
Du Zhixiong, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that it is necessary to tap the potential of rural industrial development and do a good job in "local specialties" so that farmers can benefit from the development process of rural industries and improve their income levels.
Du Zhixiong said that this year's No. 1 central document proposed to optimize and adjust the pilot policy of overall planning and integration of agriculture-related funds in poverty alleviation counties to 160 key counties for rural revitalization, and further increase the support for key areas, which is a major adjustment and optimization of the use of funds.
Let modern industries benefit more villages
This year's No. 1 document of the central government pointed out that it is necessary to improve the development level of rural industries, promote the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries, promote the optimization and upgrading of agricultural product processing industry, promote the high-quality development of rural circulation, and strengthen measures to increase farmers' income.
Industrial revitalization is the top priority of rural revitalization. Liu Naixi, a researcher at the National Agricultural Market Research Center of China Agricultural University, said that only by speeding up the modernization and development of rural industries can we be more capable of ensuring national food security; only by expanding the development of rural industries can we have more support to ensure that there is no large-scale return to poverty; and only when rural industries are more prosperous and developed can we have more confidence in improving the level of rural construction and governance.
"The development of rural industries should not only rely on the mountains to give full play to their respective relative advantages, but also explore and learn more new formats and new models from all rivers, so that the development of modern industries can benefit more villages. Liu Naixi said that this year's No. 1 central document pointed out a powerful path to improve the level of rural industry development, allowing us to see that the rural industry is ushering in unlimited opportunities and space for comprehensive upgrading and development.
Build a livable, workable and beautiful village
This year, the No. 1 document of the central government proposes to improve the level of rural construction, enhance the leading efficiency of rural planning, deeply implement the improvement and improvement of the rural living environment, promote the shortcomings of rural infrastructure, improve the rural public service system, strengthen the construction of rural ecological civilization, and promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas at the county level.
Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that there are great differences in village conditions and farmers' needs across the country, and in order to ensure that rural construction achieves practical results, it is necessary to build an effective promotion mechanism, optimize the combination of allocated public resources and mobilized social resources according to local conditions, improve the conditions for rural self-development, and enhance the endogenous development momentum.
Zheng Fengtian, a professor at the College of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Chinese University of China, said that rural construction should take into account the trend of population change, avoid ineffective input and waste, take the county town as the center and make overall planning for the overall construction of the county and rural areas, focus on the layout of villages and towns with future development potential, and change the working mechanism according to the actual needs of farmers for public basic services, so as to better promote rural construction.
Promote new breakthroughs in rural governance capacity
This year's No. 1 document of the central government proposes to improve the level of rural governance, promote party building and promote rural revitalization, prosper and develop rural culture, continue to promote rural customs, and build safe villages.
"This year's No. 1 document of the Central Committee proposes to promote party building and rural revitalization, and optimize the selection and management of the first secretary and the work team in the village. Cheng Guoqiang, a professor at the College of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Chinese People's University, said that it is necessary to continue to adhere to the system of linking departments with villages, send cadres of organs to serve as first secretaries of villages and members of working groups stationed in villages, further improve the work system of township and town leaders and cadres stationed in villages, formulate practical work systems and work disciplines, and clarify assessment objectives and conditions for rewards and punishments.
"This year's No. 1 document of the central government proposes to innovate the carrier of changing customs and customs, give full play to the role of villagers' autonomy, and strengthen the incentive and restraint function of village rules and regulations. Xu Binyi, secretary of the Baoqing County Party Committee of Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, said that it is necessary to focus on the civilization of rural customs, improve the village rules and regulations, fully mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of the vast number of farmers to participate, focus on effective governance, promote co-governance and sharing, give full play to the role of grassroots organizations, focus on deepening villager autonomy, and promote new breakthroughs in rural governance capabilities.