In 2023, the No. 1 Central Document will be released, and the official and authoritative interpretation is coming

　　China News Service, February 14th. On February 13th, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Doing a Good Job in the Key Work of Rural Revitalization in 2023" (No. 1 Central Document in 2023) was released. The document includes 9 parts and 33 articles. The content can be summarized as keeping the bottom line, promoting revitalization, and strengthening security.

　　This is the 20th consecutive No. 1 document issued by the central government to guide the work on agriculture, rural areas and farmers since the beginning of the new century, sending a strong signal of emphasizing agriculture and strengthening agriculture.

　　On February 14, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the key tasks of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization in 2023. Liu Huanxin, director of the National Rural Revitalization Bureau, and Wu Hongyao, full-time deputy director of the Central Rural Work Leading Group Office and member of the party group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, introduced and interpreted the document.

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From what aspects should efforts be made to ensure national food security?

　　Tang Renjian, Director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that the primary task of a strong agricultural country is to ensure national food security.

In the next step, we must take multiple measures and make comprehensive efforts to consolidate the foundation of food security in an all-round way.

In terms of goals, the focus is to stabilize the area, focus on yield per unit area, and strive to increase production.

In terms of measures, focus on strengthening the material basis for storing grain on the ground and storing grain on technology.

In terms of policy, the focus is to improve the mechanism guarantee for farmers to grow grain to earn money and benefit, and for local governments to take responsibility for grain.

　　Tang Renjian said that to promote the development of multi-cooking grain production in southern provinces, implement the project of increasing the yield of soybean and corn, because the yield of soybean and corn is relatively low now, and carry out the construction of grain fields per ton to ensure that the grain output will remain above 1.3 trillion catties.

At the same time, efforts will be made to expand the planting of soybean oilseeds, solidly promote the composite planting of soybeans and corn, support the rotation of grain and soybeans in the Northeast and Huanghuaihai regions, and steadily develop and utilize saline-alkali land to grow soybeans.

How to help people who have been lifted out of poverty to improve their lives to a higher level?

　　Liu Huanxin, deputy director of the Central Agricultural Office, member of the party group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and director of the National Rural Revitalization Bureau, said that this year's No. 1 Central Document will continue to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, and emphasize deployment as one of the bottom line tasks.

　　The first is to grasp the implementation of monitoring and assistance.

Carry out regular monitoring and centralized investigation of monitoring objects, further improve the accuracy of identification, the pertinence of assistance, and promptly resolve the hidden dangers of returning to poverty due to epidemics, disease, disease, and disasters.

Implement classified assistance, and implement developmental assistance measures for monitoring households who have the ability and willingness to work; for those who have no ability to work, provide a guarantee.

　　The second is to focus on the cultivation of development momentum.

Taking increasing the income of people out of poverty as a fundamental measure, taking the acceleration of the development of poverty-stricken counties as the main direction of attack, focusing on industrial employment, focusing on the use of development methods, continuously narrowing the income gap and development gap, and enhancing the endogenous development motivation of poverty-stricken areas and people out of poverty.

Make good use of the central financial link to promote rural revitalization subsidy funds, and help poverty-stricken areas make up for shortcomings in industrial development such as technology, facilities, and marketing.

Deepen labor service cooperation between the east and the west, implement the campaign to prevent returning to poverty and employment, and ensure that the employment scale of the labor force out of poverty is stable at more than 30 million.

　　The third is to improve the assistance policy.

Fully implement the policy of consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and effective connection with rural revitalization, and continue to increase the policy preference for key counties for national rural revitalization and key areas such as relocation and resettlement sites for poverty alleviation.

Deepen cooperation between the east and the west, fixed-point assistance by central units, and "ten thousand enterprises prospering ten thousand villages" and other assistance mechanisms to promote the formation of joint efforts to prevent returning to poverty.

Simiaomi Provincial Modern Agricultural Industrial Park in Jiaoling County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province.

Photo courtesy of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Guangdong Province

What policies are there to help farmers increase their income?

　　Wu Hongyao, full-time deputy director of the Central Agricultural Office and member of the party group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that this year's No. 1 document has made deployment arrangements, focusing on four aspects:

　　One is to increase employment by stabilizing employment.

At present, more than three-quarters of the migrant workers in our survey are employed in the province, and more than half are employed in the county. We must follow this trend and develop county-level enrichment industries with obvious comparative advantages, strong driving ability, and large employment capacity, so as to drive farmers closer On-site employment and entrepreneurship.

　　The second is to improve operating efficiency.

We will carry out in-depth actions to improve the main body of new agricultural management, and drive small farmers to operate cooperatively and increase their income together.

Implement agricultural socialized service promotion actions, and drive small farmers to save costs and increase efficiency, improve quality and efficiency, and increase marketing efficiency by providing socialized services such as substituting farming and planting, escrow and collection, and full trusteeship.

　　The third is to tap the potential of property income.

We will deepen the reform of the rural land system, do a solid job in confirming rights, steadily promote empowerment, realize living rights in an orderly manner, give farmers more adequate property rights, create conditions to increase farmers' property income, and allow farmers to share more reform dividends.

　　The fourth is to expand the transfer income.

We will continue to strengthen the policy of benefiting farmers and rich farmers, gradually improve the level of rural social security, steadily increase subsidies and subsidies for farmers, and build a solid social safety net, so that the pockets of farmers will become more and more bulging, and the days will be more and more prosperous.

What are the specific arrangements for building a livable and workable Hemei village?

　　Liu Huanxin said that this year's No. 1 Central Document has made specific arrangements for building a livable, business-friendly and beautiful village, focusing on both hardware and software.

Focus on hardware construction with one hand, and gradually make the rural areas basically equipped with modern living conditions.

Focus on software construction with one hand, and strive to shape the rural spirit of kindness, harmony and tranquility.

　　Liu Huanxin introduced that the concept of "harmony" must be permeated throughout rural construction, nourishing, moralizing and uniting people's hearts, and ensuring that people in rural areas are good, stable and peaceful.

One is to integrate carriers to strengthen and improve rural governance.

The second is to innovate and strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization in rural areas.

Starting from the needs of farmers and their preferences, increase the supply of rural cultural products and services that are rich in farming and farming, and that embody harmony, smoothness and beauty.

Continue to promote the change of customs in rural areas, through formulating norms, strengthening village regulations and civil agreements, and party members and cadres taking the lead in demonstrations, etc., to put an end to bad habits and strive to become customs.

Farmers display ripe strawberries picked.

Photo by Chen Jiale

What are the considerations for the "native products" industry to promote rural revitalization?

　　Tang Renjian said that this year's No. 1 Central Document made specific arrangements for the high-quality development of rural industries, focusing on four aspects.

One is to work hard on highlighting the characteristics, the other is to work hard on industrial integration, the third is to work hard to optimize the layout, and the fourth is to work hard to link farmers with farmers.

　　He said that all kinds of agricultural and sideline products, the beautiful pastoral scenery, and the cultural traditions of farming and reading are all very attractive places in the countryside, and they are also the unique soil for the development of rural industries.

To adapt to changes in market demand, closely rely on agricultural and rural characteristic resources, develop multiple functions of agriculture, tap the multiple values ​​of rural areas, select the breakthrough point for industrial development according to local conditions, and transform rural resource advantages, ecological advantages, and cultural advantages into product advantages and industrial advantages. Advantages, enhance market competitiveness and sustainable development capabilities.

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