“Ten Million Projects” Leads the Central Committee’s No. 1 Document to Paint a “New Picture” of China’s Rural Revitalization

(Economic Observer) The "Ten Million Project" leads the Central Committee's No. 1 Document to paint a "new picture" of China's rural revitalization

　　China News Service, Beijing, February 3, Title: "Ten Million Projects" Lead the Central Committee's No. 1 Document to Paint a "New Picture" of China's Rural Revitalization

　　China News Service reporter Chen Su

　　On the evening of the 3rd, the No. 1 Central Document of 2024 ("Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Learning and Applying the Experience of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Improvement" Project to Effectively and Effectively Promote Comprehensive Rural Revitalization") was released. This year’s Central Government Document No. 1 takes the lead in learning and applying the experience of the “Ten Million Project” and paints a “new picture” of China’s rural revitalization.

“Iterative Upgrading” of Rural Revitalization

　　At the beginning of every year, Chinese officials release the No. 1 Central Document focusing on “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” (agriculture, rural areas, and farmers), setting the direction for the “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” work throughout the year and beyond. This year’s Central Committee’s No. 1 Document focuses on rural revitalization and proposes that to promote Chinese-style modernization, we must persist in consolidating the agricultural foundation and promote comprehensive rural revitalization. The document also proposes a "methodology" for rural revitalization - the "Thousand Village Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Improvement" project (referred to as the "Ten Million Project").

　　Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told a reporter from China News Service that rural revitalization has entered its seventh year since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2017. As rural revitalization enters a new stage, the Central Committee’s No. 1 Document puts forward new and higher requirements for rural revitalization. "In the past six years, rural revitalization has achieved certain results, but there are also some formalism and 'don't know how to do it' problems. This year's Central Committee Document No. 1 proposed to effectively and effectively promote comprehensive rural revitalization, which is to make rural revitalization More results."

　　The No. 1 document of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed that the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas should be regarded as the overall starting point for the work of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" in the new era and new journey. We will accomplish a number of practical things that are tangible and accessible to the masses, and continue to achieve substantive progress and phased results.

A set of "methodology"

　　In this year’s No. 1 Central Document, the “Ten Million Project” has become the biggest focus and highlight. The document proposes that the "Ten Million Project" starts from rural environmental improvement, and iteratively upgrades from point to area. 20 years of continuous efforts have created thousands of beautiful villages, benefited thousands of farmers, and created successful experience and experience in promoting comprehensive rural revitalization. Practical examples. It is necessary to learn and apply the development concepts, working methods and promotion mechanisms contained in the "Ten Million Project" to promote comprehensive rural revitalization.

　　Jiang Wenlai, a researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Agricultural Zoning of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that after more than 20 years of hard work and practice, the "Ten Thousand Ten Thousand Project" has achieved remarkable results, proving that it is a road to comprehensively revitalize rural areas that is in line with Zhejiang's actual conditions and plays a significant role in promoting rural development in China. Comprehensive revitalization has reference and promotion significance. "In the new stage, if China wants to make rural revitalization more effective and produce tangible results and make farmers 'feelable and accessible', it must adhere to a problem-oriented approach, and the core concept of the 'Ten Million Project' is to adhere to a problem-oriented approach and is an important tool for comprehensively promoting China's rural revitalization." A new engine for rural revitalization.”

　　Li Guoxiang said that the experience of the "Ten Million Project" is to "adapt measures to local conditions, implement classified policies, proceed step by step, and achieve results over a long period of time." The core is to target the problems that farmers urgently need to solve. To promote rural revitalization under the guidance of the "Ten Million Project" is to focus on the "urgent difficulties and worries" of farmers, and to let farmers be the judges of rural revitalization work.

　　Ye Xingqing, director of the Rural Economic Research Department of the Development Research Center of the State Council, said that the main theme of this year’s Central Document No. 1 is to learn and apply the experience of the “Ten Million Project” to effectively and effectively promote comprehensive rural revitalization. Proposing to learn and apply the experience of the "Ten Million Project" is to find a "methodology" for rural revitalization and allow all localities to learn the development concepts, working methods and promotion mechanisms of the "Ten Million Project".

"231" work focus

　　The No. 1 Central Document requires that ensuring national food security and ensuring that no large-scale return to poverty occurs is the bottom line, focusing on improving the development level of rural industries, improving the level of rural construction, and improving the level of rural governance, strengthening the two-wheel drive of science and technology and reform, and strengthening farmers' income increase measures.

　　Li Guoxiang said that this year's No. 1 Central Document has deployed six aspects of rural revitalization work, which can be summarized as "231". That is, two bottom-line tasks: national food security and ensuring that large-scale poverty does not occur. Three key tasks: improving the development level of rural industries, improving the level of rural construction, and improving the level of rural governance. One guarantee: Strengthen the party’s overall leadership over “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”.

　　The No. 1 Central Document has made detailed arrangements for the above-mentioned six key tasks. In addition to the national food security work that has been deployed in previous Central Documents, this year’s Central Document No. 1 focuses on improving the level of rural industry development, rural construction, and rural governance. More emphasis and arrangements have been made, reflecting the official's increased emphasis on increasing farmers' income, rural living environment, and governance levels.

　　Jiang Wenlai said that rural revitalization is revitalization in all aspects. The Central Committee’s No. 1 Document has a longer-term consideration for rural revitalization, focusing on building rural areas into livable, industrial and beautiful villages, focusing on making up for shortcomings in agricultural modernization, building an agricultural power, and laying the foundation for a better future. We will promote Chinese-style modernization and contribute to “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”. (over)