China News Service, March 5. According to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued a notice on coping with the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and expanding rural labor employment to increase farmers' income. The notice proposes that, while strictly implementing prevention and control measures for differentiated epidemic situations in different regions and districts, the county should promote the formulation of plans for the resumption of production of rural small, medium and micro enterprises.

On February 18, workers were busy fertilizing in the cherry blossom tea plantation in Taipin, Zhangping City, Fujian Province. (Profile picture) Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Jinchuan

The notice requires classification to promote the employment of rural labor. All localities should regard expanding rural labor employment and promoting farmers' income as important measures to deal with the impact of the epidemic and achieve the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and decisively fighting poverty. Promote the formulation of a package to expand the employment of rural labor, launch a number of key projects to stabilize employment and increase income, and clearly define responsibilities for implementation. It is necessary to take the county as the unit to promote a thorough survey of the employment situation of the local rural labor force, accurately grasp the employment status and employment intention, and propose solutions by classification. For those who go out for employment, the exporting place should actively strengthen the docking with the importing place, organize a "point-to-point, one-stop" direct transportation service, and help them return to work safely and resume work as soon as possible. For those who stay in the local employment, it is necessary to strengthen the precise docking with the local enterprise employment needs, provide dynamic job information in time, and support their flexible employment through multiple channels. For those who find it difficult to find employment by themselves, we must actively develop public welfare positions such as rural water managers, road guards, and ecological forest guards to help achieve employment.

The notice proposes that the small and medium-sized enterprises in rural areas should be promoted to resume work and production accurately and steadily. Rural small, medium and micro enterprises are the main force for absorbing rural labor force employment. All localities must strictly implement measures for prevention and control of epidemic situation in areas with different levels and divisions, and promote the formulation of resumption of production in rural small, medium and micro enterprises based on counties. In the low-risk areas, we must comprehensively promote the resumption and production of rural small and medium-sized enterprises while doing a good job of external defense input; in the middle-risk areas, we must simultaneously promote epidemic prevention and control and the resumption and production of rural small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve resumption; high risk Areas should be prepared in advance, and after the epidemic situation is effectively controlled, the work of resuming production and production will be done in a timely and orderly manner. Establish a coordinated contact mechanism for leading agricultural industrialization enterprises and implement "one enterprise, one strategy" to help solve problems such as insufficient supply of raw materials, poor product sales, shortage of labor and funds, and lack of protective supplies during the process of resuming production and production. Leisure agriculture and rural tourism have been greatly affected by the epidemic situation. After the epidemic situation is expected to usher in the peak consumption of urban and rural residents, localities should do a good job of business service plans as soon as possible, improve supporting facilities, and enhance the capacity of reception services. Effectively implement policies such as discounting loans, repaying principal and interest, extending tax rebates, and using land for electricity and gas to support small and micro enterprises' resumption of work and production, and help companies overcome the difficulties due to local conditions.

The notice is clear, and actively guide rural innovation and entrepreneurship. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will implement the Opinions on Further Promoting the Work of Returning Home, Entering the Country, and Entrepreneurship (Ministry of Human and Social Development (2019) No. 129) and 19 departments including the National Development and Reform Commission Opinions on the Quality Development of Returning to Hometown and Entrepreneurship "(Fa Gaibei [2020] No. 104), the support policies for one-time start-up subsidies and guarantee loans for start-ups for returnees are put in place. Support returnees to engage in agricultural product processing industries such as storage and preservation, graded packaging, disease and pest control, substituting farming and planting, and other productive service industries, domestic service services, community retail and other life service industries, e-commerce, live direct sales and other new industries. Format. Relying on platform carriers such as the Rural Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park, a number of training bases for returning home to incubate and incubate will be established. Promote the establishment of a special window for rural entrepreneurship services at county and township government service centers to provide returnee entrepreneurs with job information, policy applications, and social security continuation services, and set up a "one-stop" comprehensive service platform for returnee entrepreneurship in areas where conditions permit. Strengthen business guidance and establish a “one-on-one” coaching mechanism for returning home businesses.

The notice pointed out that tapping the employment potential of agriculture and rural areas. In accordance with the new situation and new requirements for rural rejuvenation, vigorously develop rural industries and expand employment space in agriculture and rural areas. Seize the opportunity of the current strong market demand for livestock and poultry products, support large-scale farming of pigs, beef cattle, meat sheep, poultry, etc., guide small and medium-sized farmers to supplement their stocks, and increase the ability of the breeding industry to drive rural labor to increase employment. Develop special plantings such as vegetables, fruits, Chinese medicinal materials, tea, and edible fungi according to local conditions, integrate and promote standardized green planting models, and improve industrial quality, efficiency, and competitiveness. Vigorously develop facility agriculture, support the construction of a number of "vegetable basket" product supply bases around large and medium-sized cities, and provide more nearby employment for nearby farmers. Support new business entities such as farmer cooperatives and family farms to develop productive service industries, expand service scale, improve service levels, and increase employment opportunities for farmers. Accelerate the construction of modern agricultural industrial parks and strong towns in the agricultural industry, improve the mechanism of combining farming with agriculture, and attract farmers to enter the park to work in towns. We will vigorously develop facilities for sorting and packing agricultural products, refrigerating and fresh-keeping, storage and transportation, and primary processing, extend the agricultural industry chain, and leave more jobs in rural areas for farmers.

In addition, farmers were mobilized to participate in the improvement of rural human settlements. The "Three-Year Action Plan for the Improvement of Rural Human Settlement Environment" was implemented in depth. Various types of projects for the improvement of rural human settlement environment should be arranged to involve farmers as much as possible. For small-scale engineering projects with low technical requirements, villagers being able to self-build, entering villages and households, village roads, village greening, toilet reconstruction, waste water treatment, and other small-scale engineering projects, promote simplified project approval and bidding procedures, and encourage village-level organizations And the rural "craftsmen" leaders and other undertakings. Qualified regions are encouraged to set up public welfare posts such as village cleaners (public toilet managers), residential environment infrastructure management and road guards, etc., by means of "work for work", to absorb local rural labor employment. Government-purchased services for urban and rural integrated cleaning and village public infrastructure daily management and maintenance, etc., allow and encourage villagers to set up service organizations to undertake, and give priority to local villagers. Organize village clean-up operations, mobilize farmers to consciously clean the front and back of the house, do a good job of environmental protection "three guarantees in front of the door", expand the "three cleansing and one reform" content, and focus on cleaning up dead spots during epidemic prevention and control.

The notice also mentions the strengthening of farmers' skills training. Organize rural laborers who have the willingness to train and demand for migrant workers, participate in online or offline vocational skills training, encourage key enterprises to jointly organize training institutions to carry out skills training, and improve farmers 'migrant workers' skills. Strengthen the training for farmers to return to their hometowns to start business, and include all returnees who have training needs in their hometowns, and implement training subsidies in accordance with regulations. Funds for high-quality farmers' cultivation programs should be tilted towards areas with severe epidemic impacts and poverty-stricken areas. Hierarchical and categorized training should be carried out to innovate training methods and increase the pertinence of training. The training of leaders in getting rich in rural areas should focus on improving the training organization's production organization, product marketing, risk prevention and control, and demonstration driving capabilities. The training of poor households and small farmers should focus on solving production technology problems.

The notice requires that the role of agricultural and rural investment in promoting employment be brought into full play. All localities should accelerate the implementation of the identified projects, promptly issue various annual capital plans, simplify the approval procedures and improve the efficiency of approval. Agricultural investment projects such as high-standard farmland construction, farmland water conservancy, and cold storage logistics facilities for agricultural products storage should be started and started early to speed up the construction progress. This year, more projects must be completed to absorb more rural labor employment. Promote the development of “cash for work” in areas where conditions permit. The areas that have been launched must be expanded in scale, and farmers should be organized to participate in the construction of small-scale rural infrastructure such as road construction in villages and rural greening. Promote local governments to arrange a certain scale in general debt expenditure to support rural revitalization projects, and expand the scale of special debt issuance for high-standard farmland, housing site consolidation, village rehabilitation, and cold chain logistics of agricultural products. Implement temporary loan repayment arrangements for small, medium and micro enterprises, and support policies for new preferential interest loans to cover agricultural products preservation and storage, primary processing, livestock and poultry farming enterprises, and rural “double creation” entities, and expand the scale of working capital loans . Guidelines on social capital investment in agriculture and rural areas were issued. Models based on local conditions should be adopted to set up industrial funds, government-social capital cooperation, input development of the entire industry chain, and overall investment and development of production villages to guide social capital investment in agricultural and rural areas.

In addition, we will vigorously support the employment of poor households to increase their income. All localities should regard promoting the employment of poor households as an important task in the current response to the new crown pneumonia epidemic and winning the battle against poverty, and increase financial support for poverty alleviation for the employment of the poor. Temporary additional posts such as sanitation and sanitation, epidemic prevention and killing, and check-in on duty must give priority to the employment of poor households' labor, and refer to the local rural public welfare post subsidy standard to provide subsidies. Promote the employment of key enterprises such as epidemic prevention materials, production of daily necessities, and supporting industries in the upstream and downstream areas. Prioritize the recruitment of qualified poor household laborers, and provide one-time employment subsidies and loan discount support. Accelerate the recovery of poverty alleviation workshops, improve the level of operation, and attract more poor households to work. For deep poverty-stricken areas such as the "three districts and three states" and the 52 non-poverty counties listed for supervision, we will promote the export of organized labor and provide targeted employment. Combined with the needs of spring ploughing and agricultural production, new types of business entities such as farmer cooperatives and family farms are encouraged to recruit poor household laborers who are temporarily unable to go out because of the epidemic. We will strengthen the precise docking of the export and import areas of poverty alleviation cooperation between the eastern and western regions, provide protective items such as masks, and give priority to organizing the labor force of poor households to return to the city to return to work and go out to work.