The "task list" for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization is here! Why is this the first priority?

　　China News Service, February 14th (China News Finance reporter Xie Yiguan) On the 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" (Central No. 1 Document in 2023) was officially announced.

　　Anchoring the goal of accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural country and focusing on the theme of rural revitalization, the document includes 9 parts and 33 items. The main content can be summarized as keeping the bottom line, promoting revitalization, and strengthening security. It is not only a "task list" for the annual work focus, but also a guide The "operation manual" for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization.

What are the main tasks?

What's the meaning?

Data map: A scene of Duhuang New Village.

Photo courtesy of Huang Junhao

The primary task

——Ensure national food security

　　The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the requirement of accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural country for the first time.

Tang Renjian, Director of the Central Agricultural Office and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said at the press conference of the State Council Information Office on the 14th that accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural country is the key to this year's No. 1 document, and the first task of building a strong agricultural country is to ensure national food security.

　　"The current world situation has changed. Some countries have restricted or even banned food exports, which has affected the international supply of agricultural products. At the same time, the frequent occurrence of abnormal global disaster weather has also affected agricultural production." Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told Zhongxin Finance The reporter analyzed that as an important consumer of agricultural products in the world, in order to deal with these uncertain factors, my country must do a good job in domestic agriculture and guard the basics of "three rural areas".

　　This year's No. 1 Central Document made it clear that to ensure that the national grain output remains above 1.3 trillion catties, all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) must stabilize the area, focus on per unit yield, and strive to increase production.

Consolidate the foundation of food security in an all-round way, strengthen the material basis for storing grain on the ground and technology, and improve the mechanism guarantees for farmers to grow grain to earn money and for local governments to take responsibility for grain.

　　In terms of policy guidance, the document proposes to improve the income guarantee mechanism for grain farmers, continue to increase the minimum purchase price of wheat, reasonably determine the minimum purchase price of rice, stabilize rice subsidies, improve subsidies for corn soybean producers, increase soybean subsidies, and promote the expansion of soybean policies We will gradually expand the scope of full-cost insurance and planting income insurance for rice, wheat, and corn, and improve the mechanism for ensuring the supply and price of agricultural materials.

　　Jiang Wenlai, a researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Agricultural Regional Planning of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told the reporter of China New Finance and Economics that the above-mentioned measures are based on the mechanism of interest to protect food security.

Whether it is raising the minimum purchase price of wheat or reasonably determining the minimum purchase price of rice, it is to protect farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain.

Data map: A scene of cultivated land in Hulunbuir.

Photo by Tian Linxin

　　In May last year, videos of immature wheat being made into silage in some places were circulated on the Internet.

This time, strict prevention of "cutting and destroying grain" was clearly written into the No. 1 Central Document.

　　"Strictly preventing 'cutting and destroying grain' is to ensure grain production, but it also raises a question for us, that is, how to handle the relationship between grain production and feed. This document also mentions that vigorously develop silage and accelerate the promotion of straw Livestock." Jiang Wenlai said.

central task

——Increase farmers' income

　　"Sannong work has two eternal themes, one is to ensure supply and the other is to increase 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 at the press conference that increasing farmers' income is a core of the work Task.

　　Wu Hongyao said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the income of farmers has continued to grow rapidly, but it must also be noted that the current growth rate of farmers' income has slowed down and the momentum of income increase has weakened. In this regard, this year's No. 1 document has made deployment arrangements , Focus on four aspects, one is to stabilize employment growth, the other is to increase operating efficiency, the third is to tap the potential of property income, and the fourth is to expand transfer income.

　　Specifically, in terms of broadening channels for farmers to increase their income and become rich, this year’s No. 1 Document mentioned “rights” five times, namely “safeguarding the employment rights and interests of overage migrant workers”, “accelerating the improvement of the rights and interests protection system for flexible employees”, and “giving farmers more property rights”, “protecting the legal land rights and interests of farmers who have settled in cities” and “protecting the legal rights and interests of women in rural collective economic organizations”.

　　Li Guoxiang believes that, "From a foreign point of view, in the process of industrialization and urbanization, some interests of farmers will be sacrificed. Relatively speaking, my country has institutional advantages. Therefore, in the process of agricultural and rural modernization, measures will be taken to maintain farmers' employment. interests in land and so on.”

　　It is worth noting that in terms of cultivating new rural industries and new formats, the document clearly proposes to improve the standardization and standardization of clean vegetables, central kitchens and other industries, and mentions the cultivation and development of the prepared vegetable industry.

Data map: Display of prefabricated dish models.

Photo courtesy of the People's Government of Huadu District, Guangzhou

　　"The reason for cultivating and developing the prepared vegetable industry is also because the living standards of ordinary people have improved, and many young people have begun to buy semi-finished products. This proposal is also to meet the needs of ordinary people and has huge market opportunities." Li Guoxiang said.

bottom line tasks

——Consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation

　　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 at the press conference of the State Council Information Office that the No. Let the lives of people who have been lifted out of poverty rise to a higher level.

　　According to Liu Huanxin, there are three "focus points" for consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation: one is to focus on the implementation of monitoring and assistance; the other is to focus on the cultivation of development motivation; the third is to focus on the improvement of assistance policies.

　　The main measures include carrying out regular monitoring and centralized investigation of monitoring objects; implementing developmental assistance measures for monitoring households who are capable and willing to work; taking increasing the income of people who have been lifted out of poverty as a fundamental requirement, and promoting the accelerated development of poverty-stricken counties as the main direction of attack , pay more attention to supporting ambition and intelligence, focus on industrial employment, and continuously narrow the income gap and development gap; continue to increase policy preference for key counties for national rural revitalization and centralized resettlement sites for poverty alleviation and relocation.

　　Dong Yu, executive vice president of the China Development Planning Research Institute of Tsinghua University, believes that the most important criterion for testing the effectiveness of poverty alleviation is to see whether the people who have been lifted out of poverty can be consolidated.

If there is a large-scale return to poverty, the efforts of previous years will be wasted, and it is more likely to have an impact on rural stability, which in turn will affect the overall stability of economic and social development.

Therefore, this bottom line must be maintained, which is a major task at present.

　　In Li Guoxiang's view, "For farmers, especially those in poverty-stricken areas, if they want to avoid returning to poverty and live a better life, they need to increase their income. Although it is possible to increase farmers' reasonable income from growing grain and develop characteristic agriculture, the most important The most important thing is to increase wage income.” (End)

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