China News Service, Beijing, February 4 (Reporter Ruan Yulin) Han Wenxiu, deputy director of the Office of the Central Financial and Economic Commission in charge of daily work and director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on the 4th that comprehensive management is needed With regard to prominent issues such as high betrothal gifts and big events, we will make solid progress in changing customs, eradicating bad habits, and cultivating new trends in rural civilization.
At this stage, China's rural areas are undergoing major changes, including profound changes in the total population and structure, production and lifestyle, ideological and cultural concepts, traditional rural order, etc. This has put forward new requirements for the modernization of rural governance systems and governance capabilities. .
Han Wenxiu said that the modernization of agriculture and rural areas is also a modernization that harmonizes material civilization and spiritual civilization. We must adhere to the combination of removing blockages and treating both symptoms and root causes, and we must grasp them with both hands and be strong with both hands. On the one hand, we must provide high-quality spiritual and cultural products, prosper and develop rural culture, and strengthen the protection, inheritance, and innovative development of excellent rural traditional culture. On the other hand, we must focus on combating bad customs in rural areas. In some places, weddings and funerals are held in a grand manner, and farmers are burdened with heavy human burdens and miserable.
This year’s Central Government Document No. 1 requires that we continue to promote the transformation of rural customs. We must adhere to the combination of removing blockages and treating both symptoms and root causes, innovate the carriers for changing customs, give full play to the role of villagers' autonomy, strengthen the incentive and restraint functions of village rules and regulations, and continue to promote the comprehensive management of outstanding problems such as high betrothal gifts, large-scale events, and random burials. Han Wenxiu said that it is necessary to solidly promote the change of customs, provide farmers with more convenient social services, give full play to the role of villagers' self-governance, strengthen the incentive and restraint functions of village rules and regulations, eliminate bad habits, and cultivate new trends in rural civilization.
"In recent years, village super schools and village evenings organized in some places have become very popular. This year's Spring Festival has arranged many colorful activities in various places. We must insist on farmers playing the leading role and make mass cultural and sports activities more and more prosperous." Han Wenxiu said. (over)