(Economic Observer) What are the major signals released by the Central Rural Work Conference?
China News Service, Beijing, December 30th. Title: What are the important signals released by the Central Rural Work Conference?
Author Liu Liang
The Central Rural Work Conference closed in Beijing on the 29th.
Standing at the important historical node that the "14th Five-Year Plan" is about to open, what heavy signals did the conference release?
Country prospering, nation prospering
Data map: Aerial photography of Yukeng Village, Mabu Town, Xiajiang County, Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province.
Photo by Li Xiaoming
The meeting emphasized that from the overall view of the great rejuvenation strategy of the Chinese nation, the country must be rejuvenated if the nation is to rejuvenate.
Zhang Zhongjun, assistant representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in China, pointed out that rural revitalization and agricultural and rural modernization are important contents of China's "14th Five-Year Plan", which reflects China's consistent emphasis on agricultural and rural development.
Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that agriculture is an important foundation for social development, and comprehensive modernization must include rural modernization.
In the face of major changes in the world unseen in a century, uncertainties in the international environment have increased. Stabilizing the fundamentals of agriculture and maintaining the "three rural" means "keeping the confidence."
"There is still huge room for development in China's rural areas." Li Guoxiang pointed out that at present China's rural low-income groups still account for a considerable proportion, and income is one of the biggest constraints on rural consumption. If it can further expand the ways for farmers to increase income, rural consumption will be released. Great development potential.
Consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation
In 2020, thanks to various efforts, China will achieve a major victory in poverty alleviation. All impoverished counties will be removed from poverty. The absolute poverty population in rural areas will all be lifted out of poverty. The absolute poverty problem that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years has made historic progress.
Zhang Zhongjun said that in terms of poverty reduction this year, the Chinese government has achieved results in eliminating absolute poverty and overall regional poverty.
This is an important contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal One (Poverty Elimination).
However, the achievement of the above achievements does not mean the end of poverty alleviation.
Wang Sangui, Dean of the China Institute of Poverty Alleviation, Renmin University of China, pointed out that after the completion of the poverty alleviation task, China's poverty alleviation work will shift from solving absolute poverty to alleviating relative poverty.
Lei Ming, dean of the Institute for Development of Poor Areas at Peking University, said that anti-poverty is still an important task in the "post-poverty era."
We must further improve the social safety net to prevent the most vulnerable groups and some low-income groups from returning to poverty.
Historic shift in the focus of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers"
In 2017, the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed for the first time a rural revitalization strategy.
The meeting emphasized that after the victory of poverty alleviation, we must comprehensively promote rural revitalization. This is a historic shift in the focus of China's "three rural" work.
Wang Sangui said that after the absolute poverty problem in China's rural areas has been resolved, a good foundation has been laid for the next phase of the rural revitalization strategy.
"Rural revitalization is to move forward on the basis of all poverty-stricken counties withdrawing and the absolute poverty population in rural areas all out of poverty."
Li Guoxiang said that the transition from poverty alleviation to the full implementation of rural revitalization means that higher requirements are placed on rural construction.
Poverty alleviation is a partial “battle” against impoverished areas and poor groups. The comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization will radiate a wider and deeper scope.
The meeting pointed out that after the completion of the poverty alleviation goals and tasks, a five-year transition period will be established from the date of poverty alleviation for counties that have escaped poverty.
During the transition period, it is necessary to maintain the overall stability of major assistance policies, and gradually realize a smooth transition from concentrated resources to support poverty alleviation to comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization.
Hold on to the food security initiative
In 2020, under the impact of multiple factors such as the new crown pneumonia epidemic and the locust plague, global food production and supply chains will be blocked, the number of hungry people in the world will increase significantly, and food security issues have attracted much attention.
Faced with the severe situation of global food security, the meeting emphasized that the initiative in food security must be firmly held, and food production must be stepped up every year.
According to statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics of China, China's total grain output will reach 1,339 billion jin in 2020, an increase of 11.3 billion jin over the previous year, and it has remained above 1300 billion jin for six consecutive years.
Chen Youquan, a first-level inspector of the Planting Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that China's grain production has increased at a high level this year, and the total supply and demand are basically balanced.
Per capita food consumption is higher than the international food security standard.
Although China’s food supply is guaranteed, in order to take precautions, the meeting emphasized that the red line of 1.8 billion acres of arable land should be strictly prevented, the strictest arable land protection system should be implemented, and the improvement of varieties, quality improvement, brand building and standardized production should be firmly established Grasp the initiative in food security.
Nailing spirit to promote agricultural non-point source pollution control
Fully implement the strategy of rural revitalization and strengthen the construction of rural ecological civilization is also an important content.
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to promote the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution in the spirit of nailing nails.
Li Guoxiang pointed out that rural ecological civilization is an important part of the national ecological civilization construction. In recent years, China's rural ecological civilization construction has achieved significant results, but there are still some problems that need to be addressed, such as soil pollution, groundwater overexploitation, soil erosion, etc.; some Environmental protection awareness in rural areas is still weak, and the efficiency of resource utilization needs to be improved.
Emphasizing the spirit of "nailing nails" is to implement the above-mentioned work and achieve long-term success.
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