Zhongxin Finance, February 23. On the 23rd, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the key tasks of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization in 2022. Tang Renjian, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that in 2021, agricultural production will be stable and progress will be made, and grain will be harvested again.
The achievements in poverty alleviation have been consolidated and expanded, the monitoring and assistance mechanism has been continuously improved and strengthened, and the working mechanism, policy measures, and institutional teams have been connected in an orderly manner, maintaining the bottom line of no large-scale return to poverty.
According to reports, since 2021, the work of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" has overcome the adverse effects of the superposition of epidemics and disasters, and achieved a good start in the "14th Five-Year Plan".
First, agricultural production has made steady progress.
Another bumper harvest of grain was achieved, with the output reaching 1,365.7 billion catties, an increase of 26.7 billion catties. The production capacity of live pigs was restored half a year ahead of schedule, and the market supply and prices of other major agricultural products were generally stable.
Second, the income of farmers keeps increasing.
The per capita disposable income of rural residents reached 18,931 yuan, a real increase of 9.7%, 2.6 percentage points higher than the growth rate of urban residents' income.
Third, the achievements in poverty alleviation have been consolidated and expanded.
The monitoring and assistance mechanism has been continuously improved and strengthened, and the working mechanism, policy measures, and institutional teams have been connected in an orderly manner, maintaining the bottom line of no large-scale return to poverty.
The fourth is to take solid steps to comprehensively promote rural revitalization.
The development of rural industries has accelerated, the five-year action to improve the rural living environment has been launched, the level of rural governance has been continuously improved, the rural reform has been advanced in depth, and the rural society has been stable and peaceful.
The remarkable achievements in the reform and development of agriculture and rural areas have played an important role in opening new situations, responding to situations and stabilizing the overall situation.
What measures will be taken in 2022 to keep the bottom line of not returning to poverty on a large scale?
Liu Huanxin, director of the National Rural Revitalization Bureau, said that in the next step, we will continue to pay close attention to the implementation of responsibilities, policies and work, continue to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, and promote the lives of the people who have been lifted out of poverty to a higher level to ensure that there is no large-scale return to poverty.
Focus on four areas to work hard.
One is to work hard to improve the monitoring and assistance mechanism.
It is mainly a "three-pronged approach": the monitoring is more accurate, the monitoring objects are accurately determined, and all farmers who are at risk of returning to poverty and causing serious difficulties are included in the monitoring scope.
Help as early as possible, and promptly implement assistance measures for emerging problems such as housing, compulsory education, employment, and sudden serious difficulties due to disasters, epidemics, and diseases, and solve the risk of returning to poverty in the bud.
Simplify the operation as much as possible, break through the data barriers of various departments' monitoring platforms, shorten the identification time, and improve the efficiency of monitoring and assistance.
The second is to work hard to promote the continuous increase in the income of the poverty-stricken population.
Taking industrial employment assistance as the focus, and relying more on development to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation.
The industry should focus on transformation and upgrading, gradually increase the proportion of the central government's financial subsidies to promote rural revitalization, and accelerate the improvement of shortcomings in technology, facilities, and marketing, so as to increase the operating income of households who have been lifted out of poverty.
Employment must be stabilized by every means. By organizing the export of labor services, improving the absorption capacity of assistance workshops, and optimizing public welfare jobs, it is necessary to ensure that the scale of employment for people who have been lifted out of poverty has steadily increased.
The third is to work hard to strengthen assistance in key areas.
For the key counties in the country's rural revitalization, an implementation plan will be prepared, and efforts will be concentrated to implement a number of projects to supplement weaknesses and promote development, enhance self-development capabilities, and make the foundation for poverty alleviation more solid and sustainable.
For the centralized resettlement areas for relocation, continue to increase follow-up support for industrial employment, infrastructure, public services, etc., to ensure that the relocated people can be stable, integrate, and gradually become rich.
The fourth is to work hard to promote the implementation of assistance policies for poverty alleviation areas.
After winning the battle against poverty, you cannot turn around and leave.
It is necessary to maintain the overall stability of the main assistance policies, the policy strength will not be reduced, and continue to provide assistance.
In 2022, a policy effect evaluation will be organized to promote the implementation of poverty alleviation policies and provide strong support for the consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements.
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