China News Service, December 29. According to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, since this year, agricultural and rural departments at all levels have closely followed the goals of rural industry revitalization, gathering resources and power, extending the industrial chain vertically, expanding agricultural functions horizontally, and maintaining rural industries. The sustained and stable development momentum has been promoted to increase the employment of farmers and provide strong support for the decisive battle against poverty and a comprehensive well-off.

It is estimated that 10.1 million entrepreneurs and innovative people will return to their hometowns in 2020.

Data map: The picture shows Yang Jingting, an expert beekeeper in Jikeng Village, Wukou Township, Yongtai County, Fujian Province, who returned to his hometown to start a business, helping farmers buy and sell local products.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Wang Dongming

  It is embodied in the following aspects:

  The agricultural product processing industry continues to develop.

The initial processing has been accelerated, 14,000 new processing facilities have been added, and the initial processing capacity has increased by 7 million tons.

Intensive and deep processing is developing rapidly. It is estimated that the operating income of the agricultural product processing industry will exceed 23.5 trillion yuan this year, an increase of 1.5 trillion yuan over the previous year.

The continuous development of comprehensive utilization promotes resource recycling, high-value utilization, and cascading utilization, forming multiple modes such as intra-enterprise recycling, intra-park recycling, and intra-regional recycling.

  The development of characteristic rural industries was accelerated.

Discover the advantages of characteristic resources in various places, and develop characteristic products of "Xiangzihao" and "Tuzihao".

Build a batch of characteristic industry bases, identify 3274 national demonstration villages and towns with “one village, one product”, promote 91 national village characteristic industry towns (townships) with one billion yuan and 136 national village characteristic industry villages with a total output value of over 34 billion yuan. 10 billion yuan of advantageous characteristic industrial clusters.

A number of characteristic brands have been created, and 2,100 rural characteristic products and skilled craftsmen have been cultivated and promoted.

Supported 832 national-level poverty-stricken counties to cultivate 14,000 leading enterprises above the city level, 350,000 farmer cooperatives, and 121,400 family farms.

  The rural leisure tourism industry resumed development.

Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, rural leisure tourism has been greatly impacted. In the first half of the year, passenger flow and operating income fell sharply, and returned to normal levels in the second half of the year.

As of the end of 2020, there are 1,216 beautiful leisure villages with "One Village, One Scenery" and "One Village, One Rhyme", and 1,000 rural leisure tourism boutique routes.

The rural leisure and tourism industry has significantly improved its ability to absorb employment and increase income, directly driving 12 million jobs and benefiting more than 8 million rural households.

  Rural entrepreneurial innovation continued to advance.

This year there has been an increase in migrant workers returning to their hometowns, and local governments have increased their support to support entrepreneurship and innovation of migrant workers returning to their hometowns.

It is estimated that 10.1 million entrepreneurs and innovative people will return to their hometowns in 2020, an increase of more than 1.6 million over the previous year, exceeding 10 million for the first time, driving more than 10 million new jobs in rural areas.

In addition, there are 31.5 million entrepreneurs and innovative personnel in the township, including "Tian Xiucai" and "local experts".

More than 60% of the entrepreneurial projects in the hometown have innovative factors, more than 85% belong to the integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and 55% use new models such as "Internet +" to promote the rapid development of direct sales and other businesses.

The field of entrepreneurship and innovation has changed from the initial planting and breeding industry to the primary processing of agricultural products and rural e-commerce.

  The level of industrial integration has steadily improved.

The main body of integration has grown. There are 90,000 leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, of which 1,547 are national key leading enterprises, nearly 12,000 with annual sales revenue of over 100 million yuan, and 77 with annual sales revenue of over 10 billion yuan.

The integration of rich business formats, forming a "agricultural +" trend, has given birth to new business formats such as central kitchens, direct sales, membership customization, experience agriculture, and smart agriculture.

There will be more integration carriers. In 2020, the central government will allocate 5 billion yuan to support provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) to focus on leading industries, gather resource elements, and build 50 industrial clusters with advantageous characteristics.

From 2018 to 2020, the central government will allocate 9 billion yuan to build 811 strong agricultural industrial towns.

In addition, it has also guided the construction of more than 1,600 agricultural product processing parks in various regions.