Source: Economic Daily
To promote Chinese-style modernization, we must unremittingly consolidate the foundation of agriculture and promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. The Central Economic Work Conference made arrangements for learning and applying the experience of the "Ten Million Project" to effectively and effectively promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. We must thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on the "three rural" work, anchor the goal of building an agricultural power, focus on the theme of promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, and take the experience of learning and using the "Ten Million Project" as the guide, and implement the "two guarantees, three improvements, and two strengthenings" one by one, so as to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside and continue to make new progress and new results.
Highlight the top priorities
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "ensuring the stable and safe supply of grain and important agricultural products has always been the top priority in building an agricultural power". If there is no agriculture, there is no stability, and if there is no grain, there will be chaos. Food security is the "great thing of the country". It is necessary to focus on ensuring grain production and supply, and ensure that grain output is maintained at more than 1.3 trillion catties. We should further strengthen policy measures in terms of prices, subsidies, insurance, etc., increase support for large grain-producing counties, improve the compensation mechanism for the interests of major grain-producing areas, protect and mobilize the enthusiasm of major grain-producing counties and grain-growing farmers, and stabilize the existing cultivated land. Implement the grain yield improvement project, accelerate the revitalization of the seed industry and the key core technology of agriculture, strengthen the collection, protection and development and utilization of germplasm resources, improve the standard and quality of high-standard farmland construction, standardize and orderly promote the circulation of rural land, and improve the scale and intensification of agricultural production. While ensuring food security, we should ensure a stable and safe supply of other important agricultural products, especially the production of soybeans and oilseeds, and the pig and "vegetable basket" projects, so that the people of the whole country can eat enough, eat abundantly, and eat healthily. In addition to cultivated land, the mainland also has more than 4 billion mu of forest land, nearly 4 billion mu of grassland, and a large number of rivers, lakes and seas. Under the premise of protecting the ecological environment, we should expand from cultivated land resources to the entire national land resources, from traditional crops, livestock and poultry resources to more abundant biological resources, from forests, grasslands, rivers, lakes and seas for food, and from plants, animals, and microorganisms for calories and proteins, and develop food sources in multiple ways. We should develop solar greenhouses, plant factories and intensive livestock and poultry breeding, promote the construction of land-based and deep-sea aquaculture and fishery farms, and broaden the scope of agricultural production space.
Grasp the top priority
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "industrial revitalization is the top priority of rural revitalization, and it is also the entry point of practical work". Without industrial revitalization, there will be no rural revitalization. An important experience of the "Ten Million Project" is to insist on taking industry as the foundation. It is necessary to adhere to the principle of rejuvenating agriculture by industry, quality, and green, and accelerate the construction of a modern rural industrial system that coordinates grain, economy and feeding, simultaneously develops agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, integrates production and marketing, and integrates agriculture, culture and tourism, and builds agriculture into a modern industry. Adhere to local conditions, highlight local characteristics, focus on "local specialties" to make a fuss, build local characteristic brands, and accelerate the transformation of characteristic resource advantages into product advantages and industrial advantages. Develop facility agriculture and organic agricultural products, and promote the branding of agricultural products. Extend and expand the agricultural industry chain, and promote the coordinated development of agricultural product production, primary processing, and intensive processing. Guide agricultural product processing enterprises to the layout of production areas and concentrate in the park, and make overall plans for the construction of agricultural product processing industrial parks in the main grain and important agricultural product producing areas. Smooth rural logistics, improve the county and rural logistics distribution system, optimize the construction of the cold chain logistics system for agricultural products, and implement the high-quality development project of rural e-commerce. Promote the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas, expand the multiple functions of agriculture, tap the diversified value of rural areas, vigorously develop new industries and new formats such as eco-tourism, forest health care, leisure and camping, and develop life services such as rural catering and shopping, elderly care and childcare, and information intermediaries, so as to create new growth points for the rural economy. We will continue to support the creation of strong agricultural industrial towns, modern agricultural industrial parks, and advantageous and characteristic industrial clusters, and support the construction of national demonstration parks for the integrated development of rural industries. Implement the cultural industry empowerment rural revitalization plan, strengthen the protection and utilization of traditional villages, do a good job in the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, and implement rural leisure tourism boutique projects.
Focus on the central task
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "insist on increasing farmers' income as the central task of the 'three rural' work, and do everything possible to broaden the channels for farmers to increase their income and get rich, so that farmers' pockets are more and more bulging, their lives are getting better and better, and a new picture of livable, workable and beautiful countryside is painted." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the ratio of per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents in mainland China has continued to decline, and the sense of gain of farmers has continued to increase. However, in absolute terms, the income gap between urban and rural residents is still large. To promote common prosperity, the most arduous and arduous task still lies in the rural areas, and the gap between urban and rural areas must be gradually narrowed. It is necessary to organically combine the promotion of new-type urbanization with the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, and accelerate the integrated development of urban and rural areas in the county. We should intensify the policy of strengthening agriculture and benefiting farmers and rich peasants, gradually raise the level of social security in rural areas, and steadily increase subsidies and subsidies for peasants. Tap the potential of industrial operation to increase income, vigorously develop green and organic agricultural products, and enhance the added value of agricultural products. Support farmers to develop family management projects such as characteristic planting and breeding, handicraft workshops, and understory economy. Strengthen the policy orientation of industrial development and linking agriculture with agriculture, improve the linkage mechanism between the support policies of new agricultural business entities and agriculture-related enterprises and the increase of farmers' income, and better drive farmers to participate in industrial development and share value-added benefits. Stabilize the income of farmers who go out to work, improve cross-regional information sharing and organized labor export mechanisms, and cultivate and expand labor service brands. Strengthen vocational skills training for migrant workers, and promote order, orientation, and fixed-post training models. We should do a good job in supporting the employment of older migrant workers, and actively promote cash-for-work in key engineering projects and agricultural and rural infrastructure construction. Encourage the revitalization and utilization of rural resource assets by means of leasing, cooperative development, and shareholding management, and increase farmers' property income through multiple channels.
Safeguard people's livelihood and well-being
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation is the bottom-line task of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization". Preventing a large-scale return to poverty is not only a major economic task, but also a major political task, and we must continue to exert our efforts, and we must not slacken our ideological or work efforts. It is necessary to improve the dynamic monitoring and assistance mechanism for preventing the return to poverty, and tighten and consolidate the responsibility for the prevention of the return to poverty. Make good use of big data early warning and other means to improve the timeliness of monitoring and the accuracy of assistance, firmly guard the bottom line of not returning to poverty on a large scale, and resolutely prevent the phenomenon of returning to poverty in the whole village and township. Accelerate the interconnection of the monitoring of the prevention of returning to poverty and the dynamic monitoring information platform for the low-income population, strengthen the integration and sharing of cross-departmental information, and avoid duplication of construction and information silos. Strengthen industrial and employment assistance, make more efforts to enhance the endogenous development momentum of poverty alleviation areas and poverty alleviation people, take increasing the income of poverty alleviation people as a fundamental requirement, think of more ways to promote the accelerated development of poverty alleviation areas, and promote all kinds of resources and assistance measures to focus on promoting industrial development and expanding employment. Pay attention to stimulating the ambition and confidence of the people who have been lifted out of poverty to develop by relying on their own strength, so that those who work hard to get rich are motivated, and prevent "raising lazy people". Strengthen the performance management of industrial assistance fund projects, promote the quality and efficiency of the industry, and sustainable development, so that the people who remain in the local area to get out of poverty have stable industrial support. Stabilize the scale of employment of the labor force lifted out of poverty, promote the action to prevent the return to poverty and employment, and let the people who have the ability to work have stable jobs. Further optimize the assistance policies, and further implement the tilted support policies such as finance, finance, land, talent, and counterpart assistance in key areas such as key counties for rural revitalization and relocation and concentrated resettlement areas, and strive to improve development conditions, enhance development capabilities, and help them increase their income and get rich through their own efforts. Make up for the shortcomings of rural social welfare, and strengthen care and care for special and needy groups such as the elderly, children, and those left behind in rural areas. Actively promote the convergence of assistance policies for preventing the return to poverty and the normalized assistance policies for low-income rural populations, include all eligible recipients in normalized assistance, and study the establishment of normalized assistance mechanisms in underdeveloped areas. The population lifted out of poverty that should be supported by the policy should be gradually separated from the population that has been able to get rid of poverty stably through normal assistance, and classified management should be implemented.
(The author, Ding Maozhan, is a special researcher at the Beijing Xi Jinping Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Source: Economic Daily)