[One Word of the Day] Promote agriculture from increasing production-oriented to improving quality-oriented

  Xi Jinping: Accelerate the construction of a modern agricultural industrial system, production system, and management system, promote agriculture from an increase in production orientation to an improvement in quality orientation, improve agricultural innovation, competitiveness, and total factor productivity, and improve agricultural quality, efficiency, and overall quality.

  This passage comes from a speech delivered by Xi Jinping on March 8, 2018 when he participated in the deliberation of the Shandong delegation at the first meeting of the 13th National People's Congress.

  With the in-depth advancement of the structural reforms on the agricultural supply side in my country, agricultural development is facing various tasks such as quality changes, efficiency changes, and power changes. This is also an important measure to accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.

  The key to accelerating the construction of a modern agricultural management system is to increase agricultural total factor productivity and agricultural productivity through innovative agricultural management methods, enhance the market awareness of new agricultural operators, and optimize the rational allocation of various production factors to increase farmers' income.

Improve family farms, professional cooperatives, and rural collective economic organizations to link the interests of farmers to farmers, and play a leading role in radiation.

  Only the prosperity of the industry can the prosperity of the country.

Standing at the new intersection of history, agriculture should further transform from increasing production to improving quality. By tapping local resource endowments, actively meeting market demand, actively adjusting the agricultural production structure, and enhancing the recognition of agricultural development with characteristic industries as the core; actively guide The development of the processing industry of characteristic and high-quality agricultural products, and through the integration of new platforms such as e-commerce, enables farmers to connect with the market in real time, so as to optimize the efficiency of the supply chain and enhance the competitiveness of agricultural products in the market.

  To promote the construction of a modern agricultural system, we must also do a good job in rural ecological environmental protection, increase the protection and improvement of the planting and breeding environment, and provide healthy soil and water quality that meet the standards for agricultural production.

In addition, focus on building a branded organization with strength and potential, and use the power of rural culture to add value to the brand and improve the overall quality and efficiency of agriculture.

  (Special expert in this issue: Feng Danmeng, PhD, Assistant Researcher, Rural Economic Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs)