Strive to create a new situation in comprehensively promoting rural revitalization (authoritative interview)
The Party Central Committee believes that it is necessary to unswervingly solve the "three rural" issues as the top priority of the whole party's work, mobilize the power of the whole party and the whole society to comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.
The "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Doing a Good Job in Comprehensively Promoting the Key Work of Rural Revitalization in 2023" was recently issued.
This year is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. This year’s No. 1 Central Document is the first “No. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core attaches great importance to the work of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", sending a strong signal of emphasizing agriculture and strengthening agriculture.
Our reporter interviewed Tang Renjian, Director of the Central Agricultural Office and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, on the implementation of this year's No. 1 Central Document.
To build a strong agricultural country, we must base ourselves on the national conditions and agricultural conditions and reflect Chinese characteristics
Question: Comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural country are the strategic deployments made by the Party Central Committee with a view to building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.
This year's No. 1 Central Document made specific arrangements for this. In the first year of fully implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, how can we promote the construction of a strong agricultural country to get off to a good start?
Answer: A strong country must first strengthen its agriculture, and only a strong agriculture can make the country strong.
This year's No. 1 Central Document adheres to the combination of long and short, anchors the goal of building a strong agricultural country, and deploys the key tasks of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization in 2023.
It is necessary to deeply understand the historical position and strategic positioning of building a strong agricultural country, clarify the main direction and strategic focus, continuously strengthen the supply of policies and factors, focus on promoting technological and institutional innovation, and make full efforts to speed up the construction of a strong agricultural country.
Satisfying the people's needs for a better life, achieving high-quality development, and consolidating the foundation of national security are all inseparable from agricultural development.
Building a powerful agricultural country can effectively tap and activate the huge agricultural and rural market demand, open up new space for macroeconomic development, and add new momentum to comprehensive modernization.
At present, the world's major changes unseen in a century are accelerating. my country's development has entered a period of strategic opportunities, risks and challenges, and uncertainties. We firmly hold the rice bowl in our own hands, take the initiative in development, and ensure the smooth advancement of the country's modernization drive.
To build a strong agricultural country, we must follow the general laws of agricultural modernization, base ourselves on national conditions and agricultural conditions, and reflect Chinese characteristics.
Efforts should be made to transform the mode of agricultural development, closely relying on scientific and technological innovation and system innovation to promote intensive and connotative development, and build a strong agricultural country with strong supply guarantee, strong scientific and technological equipment, strong management system, strong industrial resilience, and strong competitiveness.
At the same time, based on the resource endowment of more people and less land, the historical background of farming civilization, and the requirements of the era of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, we will rely on our own strength to secure our jobs, rely on the two-tier management system to develop modern agriculture, and develop ecological low-carbon agriculture. Farming civilization, solid promotion of common prosperity, and a path of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics.
Building a strong agricultural country is a long-term task. It is necessary to study and formulate a plan to speed up the construction of a strong agricultural country, do a good job in overall planning and system arrangements, refine the goals and tasks for the next 5 years, 2035, and the middle of this century, and clarify the road map and construction plans. , solid and steady progress in stages.
At present, we must focus on comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, and solidly promote the "five revitalizations" of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology, and organization.
Strengthen the foundation of food security in an all-round way to ensure a stable and safe supply of food and important agricultural products
Question: Ensuring a stable and safe supply of food and important agricultural products has always been the top priority of building a strong agricultural country.
On the basis that my country's grain output has stabilized at more than 1.3 trillion catties for eight consecutive years, how to consolidate the foundation of food security in an all-round way and better ensure the stable and safe supply of grain and important agricultural products?
Answer: There is food in hand, and there is no panic in the heart.
Last year, we overcame the adverse factors such as the epidemic situation and violent fluctuations in international grain prices, and achieved another bumper harvest in grain production. The total annual grain output reached 1,373.1 billion catties, an increase of 7.4 billion catties. We secured our jobs and provided strong support for stabilizing the economy. .
At present and in the future, the situation of ensuring the security of the supply of food and important agricultural products is still complicated and severe, and the pressure will increase. It is necessary to comprehensively consolidate the foundation of food security from the four aspects of "land, technology, profit, and righteousness".
Strengthen the material foundation of storing grain on the ground and storing grain on technology.
It is necessary to use modern infrastructure and scientific and technological equipment to consolidate and improve the comprehensive agricultural production capacity.
Strengthen the protection and use control of cultivated land, strengthen the construction of high-standard farmland, water conservancy infrastructure, and agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities, and formulate an implementation plan to gradually build all permanent basic farmland into high-standard farmland.
Strengthen the support of scientific and technological equipment, accelerate the promotion of key areas of agricultural key core technology to achieve new breakthroughs, implement the seed industry revitalization action in depth, implement the soybean corn yield improvement project, and speed up the improvement of the shortcomings of agricultural machinery and equipment.
Improve the mechanism guarantee for farmers to grow grain to earn money and benefit, and for local governments to take responsibility for grain.
In terms of prices, subsidies, insurance, etc., further improve the income guarantee mechanism for grain farmers.
Continue to increase the minimum purchase price of wheat, rationally determine the minimum purchase price of rice, stabilize rice subsidies, improve subsidies for corn and soybean producers, improve the mechanism for ensuring the supply and price stability of agricultural materials, and gradually expand the scope of full-cost insurance and planting income insurance for rice, wheat, and corn. Implement the pilot project of soybean full cost insurance and planting income insurance, so that grain farmers can earn money and benefit.
Improve the compensation mechanism for the interests of the main production areas, increase the scale of reward funds for major grain-producing counties, and strictly assess the responsibility system for farmland protection and food safety of provincial-level party committees and governments, so that the main production areas will not suffer losses, and more grains will be harvested.
Grain production needs to stabilize output and increase production capacity.
In terms of output, we must closely focus on ensuring that the national grain output remains above 1.3 trillion catties, and do everything possible to stabilize the area, focus on per unit yield, and strive to increase production.
Increase the planting of soybean oilseeds to ensure that the self-sufficiency rate of soybean oilseeds increases year by year.
Coordinate the regulation and control of grain and important agricultural products, and stabilize the supply of "vegetable basket" products.
In terms of production capacity, it is necessary to promptly launch and implement a new round of 100 billion jin grain production capacity improvement actions, and strive to promote grain production capacity to a new level as soon as possible.
Under the premise of protecting the ecological environment, develop food sources in multiple ways, and accelerate the construction of a diversified food supply system that integrates grain, economy and feed, combines agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, and simultaneously develops plants, animals and microorganisms.
Continue to tighten, consolidate and expand the responsibility for the achievements of poverty alleviation, and enhance the endogenous development motivation of poverty-stricken areas and people who have been lifted out of poverty
Question: Consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation is the bottom line task of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization.
At present, how to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation and effectively connect with rural revitalization, so as to make the achievements of poverty alleviation more stable and make the development of poverty alleviation areas more sustainable?
Answer: This year's No. 1 Central Document continues to emphasize the deployment of consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation as the bottom line task.
It is necessary to continue to tighten, consolidate and expand the responsibility for the achievements of poverty alleviation, prevent the phenomenon of whole villages and villages returning to poverty, and accelerate the pace of development of poverty-stricken areas and people who have been lifted out of poverty.
On the one hand, we must resolutely hold the bottom line of preventing large-scale poverty.
Strengthen dynamic monitoring to prevent returning to poverty, give full play to the role of early warning and response, and effectively achieve early detection, early intervention, and early assistance.
For monitoring households who have labor ability and willingness, implement developmental assistance measures.
Improve the stratified and classified social assistance system, and do a good job of guaranteeing the bottom line.
Implement the policy of consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and effective connection with rural revitalization, continue to focus on key counties for national rural revitalization and centralized resettlement sites for relocation, and concentrate efforts to give preferential support.
On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen the endogenous development motivation of poverty-stricken areas and people who have been lifted out of poverty.
Cultivate characteristic and advantageous leading industries according to local conditions, and strive to increase the proportion of rural revitalization subsidy funds used by the central government to more than 60% for industrial development, focusing on support to make up for shortcomings such as technology, facilities, and marketing, and improving the mechanism for linking interests.
Strengthen employment assistance, implement the key campaign to prevent returning to poverty and employment, and ensure that the employment scale of the out-of-poverty labor force is stable at more than 30 million.
Deepen the cooperation between the east and the west and the designated assistance of the central unit, guide the extensive participation of social forces, and help the poverty-stricken areas and people who have been lifted out of poverty to improve their "hematopoietic" function.
To enrich and expand the connotation of rural construction, it is necessary to shape both the shape and the soul
Question: Rural modernization is an inherent requirement and necessary condition for building a strong agricultural country, and building a livable, business-friendly and beautiful countryside is the proper meaning of a strong agricultural country.
How to promote the construction of a livable, business-friendly and beautiful countryside in an orderly manner, and realize the overall improvement of the countryside from the outside to the inside, with both form and spirit?
Answer: To build a livable, businessable and beautiful village is to enrich and expand the connotation of rural construction. It is necessary to shape the shape and shape the soul; it is necessary to pay attention to the construction of material civilization and the construction of spiritual civilization.
We must closely focus on the goal of gradually making the countryside basically equipped with modern living conditions, and solidly promote key tasks such as rural development, rural construction, and rural governance, so that farmers can live a modern and civilized life on the spot.
Organize and implement rural construction actions.
Continue to focus on the construction of public infrastructure in rural areas, and concentrate on the construction of people's livelihood that is inclusive, basic, and comprehensive.
Reasonably determine the layout and construction boundaries of villages, improve the style of villages based on local characteristics, regional characteristics and ethnic characteristics, strictly prohibit the withdrawal and merger of villages and large communities against the wishes of farmers, prevent large-scale demolition and construction, and blindly build archways, pavilions and corridors to "stack bonsai".
Promote the improvement of the rural living environment, and continue to strengthen the construction of infrastructure such as rural roads, water supply, energy, and housing security.
Promote the sinking of basic public service resources, and focus on accelerating the construction of public service facilities in epidemic prevention, elderly care, education, and medical care.
Promote the high-quality development of rural industries.
Villages should not only be livable, but also suitable for business.
Only when rural industries flourish can more capital, technology, talents, etc. flow to the countryside, and opportunities for farmers to increase their income will be opened, and the countryside will be vibrant and popular.
In accordance with the requirements of the three words "local specialties", relying on agricultural and rural characteristic resources, develop multiple functions of agriculture, tap the multiple values of the countryside, select the breakthrough point for industrial development according to local conditions, and focus on strengthening the leader, supplementing the chain, developing the business model, and establishing the brand.
Improve the mechanism of linking the interests of farmers with farmers, leave more value-added benefits to farmers, and do everything possible to broaden the channels for farmers to increase their income and become rich.
Strengthen rural governance and spiritual civilization.
Efforts should be made to create a rural spiritual outlook of harmony, harmony and tranquility, and the concept of "harmony" should be permeated in all areas of the entire process of rural revitalization, so as to nourish, moralize and unite people's hearts, and ensure that people in rural areas are kind, stable and peaceful.
It is necessary to improve the rural governance system led by party organizations, strengthen the political and organizational functions of rural grassroots party organizations, make good use of traditional governance resources and modern governance methods, and improve the effectiveness of rural governance.
It is necessary to innovate the starting point, platform and carrier of the construction of rural spiritual civilization, further promote the transformation of rural customs, and shape a new trend of rural civilization.
Our reporter Gao Yuncai