China News Service, Fuzhou, February 8 (Reporter Long Min) After the release of the 2024 Central Committee Document No. 1 focusing on rural revitalization, Fujian Province, which is accelerating the construction of the core area of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and the cross-strait integrated development demonstration zone, 8 A series of policies and measures were released today to promote comprehensive rural revitalization.
It can be seen from the "Implementation Opinions 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" (referred to as the "Opinions") issued by the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Fujian Provincial People's Government that the "Straits" and "Maritime Silk Road" "Advantages are the focus of Fujian's efforts to promote comprehensive rural revitalization.
Agricultural exchanges and cooperation between Fujian and Taiwan are a major feature of the integrated development of Fujian and Taiwan, and also a highlight of Fujian's rural revitalization. As an important platform for the integrated development of cross-strait agriculture, the Taiwan Farmers Entrepreneurship Park in Fujian Province (referred to as "Taiwan Entrepreneurship Park") has always been at the forefront of the mainland and has achieved remarkable results. As of December last year, the Taiwan Innovation Park in Fujian Province had attracted more than 730 Taiwanese-funded agricultural enterprises to the park, bringing in Taiwanese investment of US$1.29 billion and an annual output value of more than 10 billion yuan.
In February 2021, an aerial view of the Taiwanese cherry blossom tea garden in the Zhangtaiwan Farmers' Entrepreneurship Park in Longyan, Fujian. Photo by China News Network reporter Wang Dongming
Fujian will upgrade the Taiwan Farmers Entrepreneurship Park and the Fujian-Taiwan Agricultural Integrated Development Industrial Park. The opinion pointed out that the construction level of the existing national-level Taiwan Farmers' Entrepreneurship Park should be further improved, a high-quality Fujian-Taiwan agricultural integrated development industrial park should be built, a number of national-level Taiwan Farmers' Entrepreneurship Parks should be created, and a number of cross-strait rural revitalization cooperation bases should be built.
Liang Quanshun, deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, told a reporter from China News Service that he supports qualified counties (cities, districts) in applying for the establishment of new national-level Taiwanese innovation parks, and strives to realize the national-level Taiwanese innovation parks in nine Fujian provinces in recent years. Covering all districts of the city, it promotes the improvement of Fujian Taiwan Innovation Park in both “quality” and “quantity”.
At the same time, Fujian will use Fujian-Taiwan agricultural integrated development promotion counties and promotion bases as carriers to introduce and promote a batch of Taiwan's new varieties, new technologies and new machinery, explore the development of refined agriculture, creative agriculture and other business forms; strengthen the docking and exchange of characteristic towns on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and enhance the grassroots level of the private sector. Exchange effectiveness; support Sanming in building a cross-strait rural integrated development pilot zone.
Fujian is the core area of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and will continue to expand its agricultural opening to the outside world. The opinion makes it clear that Fujian will closely cooperate with the relevant member states of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) in the agricultural field to attract high-quality factor resources to invest in modern agriculture with Fujian characteristics; expand the markets of countries and regions jointly building the "Belt and Road", and expand the characteristics of Fujian. Export of advantageous agricultural products; deepen economic and trade activities such as the Fujian Tea "Maritime Silk Road" tour, give full play to the role of overseas Fujian tea cultural promotion centers, enhance the international visibility and influence of Fujian tea; strengthen foreign aid training and promotion of Juncao technology, and deepen foreign exchange in fields such as rice breeding Cooperate to build an agricultural technology foreign aid brand.
Through exchanges and cooperation such as holding Juncao technology training courses and building Juncao technology demonstration bases, Lin Zhanxi, a researcher at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University and chief scientist of the National Juncao Engineering Technology Research Center, and his team have applied Juncao technology in 106 countries and regions around the world. The promotion has created hundreds of thousands of green jobs in the local area. Lin Zhanxi expressed his hope that this "small but beautiful, quick-effective, and beneficial to people's livelihood" technology will accelerate its globalization, especially in countries jointly building the "One Belt and One Road", and benefit more people. (over)