Financial support for agriculture "account book" (Rui Finance)
From 2016 to 2019, the national fiscal general public budget arranges 6.07 trillion yuan in agricultural and rural related expenditures
Over 6 trillion yuan!
The State Council’s report on the allocation and use of financial agricultural and rural funds recently released shows that from 2016 to 2019, the national fiscal general public budget has accumulatively arranged agricultural and rural related expenditures of 6.07 trillion yuan, an average annual increase of 8.8%, which is higher than the national general public budget. Average increase in expenditure.
The report pointed out that, on the whole, during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, my country's fiscal support for agriculture has achieved remarkable results, with increasing investment, continuous optimization of the expenditure structure, and continuous improvement of fund management and use efficiency.
In the next step, investment will be further increased.
Focus on supporting 5 aspects
In recent years, how has the fiscal agricultural and rural funds been allocated and used?
Minister of Finance Liu Kun recently introduced that financial departments at all levels, in conjunction with relevant departments, regard agriculture and rural areas as a priority area of financial expenditure, which provides strong support for the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.
The central government's agricultural and rural funds mainly support five aspects.
Ensure the effective supply of important agricultural products such as grain and live pigs.
Support the development of agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, and promote social capital investment in the seed industry through the Modern Seed Industry Development Fund to exceed 10 billion yuan.
In 2020, the scope of subsidy for temporary loan interest for live pigs will be expanded from farm households with annual slaughter of more than 5,000 heads to farm households with annual slaughter of more than 500 pigs.
Full support to win the battle against poverty.
Give play to the role of the main channel of the central government's special poverty alleviation funds. From 2016 to 2020, an annual increase of 20 billion yuan for five consecutive years.
We will further advance the pilot projects for the overall planning and integration of agriculture-related funds in poor counties. From 2016 to the first three quarters of 2020, 832 poverty-stricken counties across the country have integrated and used more than 1.5 trillion yuan in agricultural funds.
Support the deepening of structural reforms on the agricultural supply side.
Support the deep integration of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and improve the ability of financial services to rejuvenate rural areas. From 2016 to 2019, the national agricultural credit guarantee business scale increased by 81.9% annually.
Speed up making up for shortcomings in agricultural and rural public services.
Since 2018, more than 30 million rural toilets have been newly renovated.
From 2016 to 2019, more than 1.2 million kilometers of rural roads were newly rebuilt.
Promote the establishment and improvement of a modern rural social governance system.
Strengthen the guarantee of operating funds for village-level organizations, support the implementation of the registration and certification of rural land contractual management rights, and support the implementation of rural collective asset liquidation and capital verification.
As of the end of 2019, the proportion of villages with collective operating income of more than 50,000 yuan across the country accounted for 48.2%, an increase of 23.2 percentage points from 2016.
Implement budget performance management
The funds are used properly and the management must keep up.
Liu Kun said that in recent years, the Ministry of Finance, in conjunction with relevant departments, has strengthened fund management, improved top-level design, innovated systems and mechanisms, solidly promoted various reform tasks in the agricultural and rural areas, and continuously improved the scientific, standardized, and effective use and management of financial funds.
"Promote the improvement of the agricultural support and protection system. In 2019, the "Opinions on Improving the Agricultural Support and Protection System" was formulated and issued, which proposed policies and measures for direct subsidies to farmers, production support, infrastructure construction, price support, and ecological environmental protection. "Liu Kun said, to explore the establishment of a long-term mechanism for the integration and integration of agriculture-related funds, strengthen the integration of the source of agriculture-related funds, give local governments greater authority for the integration of funds, and fully mobilize local work enthusiasm.
In terms of fiscal budget management, Liu Kun introduced the comprehensive implementation of budget performance management, formulating agricultural and rural related transfer payment performance management systems and methods, and promoting the realization of the performance management of all central-level and transfer payment projects of financial agricultural and rural funds.
"Pay close attention to fund supervision and supervision and inspection." Liu Kun said, strengthening the construction of the financial agricultural and rural fund supervision system, achieving full coverage of poverty alleviation audits in 832 poor counties, continuously strengthening the management of funds related to rural revitalization, and promoting the implementation of policies.
Build a dynamic monitoring platform for financial poverty alleviation funds, relying on the platform to establish a general ledger of financial poverty alleviation funds to track budget allocation, fund payment, performance target implementation, and household-to-person grants to promote the strengthening of poverty alleviation fund management.
Further increase investment
"While seeing the achievements, we are also clearly aware of the gaps and deficiencies." Liu Kun said, as the financial agricultural and rural funds involve different industries and hundreds of millions of people, the interests of the subjects are diverse, with many points, long lines, and wide areas The management and use of financial agricultural and rural funds still faces some difficulties and challenges.
First, investment pressure continues to increase.
The current domestic and international economic situation is still complicated and severe, and the financial sector will remain in a tight balance for a long time to come.
The diversified investment pattern with financial priorities and active social participation needs to be further improved.
Second, the linkage between policies needs to be further strengthened.
As fiscal agricultural and rural funds involve multiple industries, multiple levels, and multiple regions, coordination among policies needs to be further strengthened.
Third, budget and performance management still needs further improvement.
What to do next?
"Further increase investment." Liu Kun said that the financial department continues to prioritize agriculture and rural areas, and constantly improves the diversified investment guarantee mechanism, combined with budgeting arrangements, and continues to include eligible agricultural and rural projects into local government bond support range.
Further broaden input channels, gradually increase the proportion of land transfer proceeds used in agriculture and rural areas, and ensure that it reaches more than 50% by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
In terms of policy system and management.
Liu Kun pointed out that the fiscal policy system for supporting agriculture should be further improved to improve the accuracy of the policy.
Further promote the quality and efficiency of agriculture-related fund management, and integrate performance management into the whole process of budgeting, implementation, and supervision of financial agriculture and rural funds.
Strengthen the rigid constraints of evaluation results, use performance results as an important basis for budget arrangements, make careful calculations, spend money on the cutting edge and important points, and effectively improve the performance of the use of financial agricultural and rural funds.
Qiu Haifeng