Keywords for the 2024 National Two Sessions
Solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas
"Persevere in doing a good job in the work of 'agriculture, rural areas and farmers', and solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas." This year's government work report proposed to anchor the goal of building an agricultural power, learn from and apply the experience of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Improvement" project, and implement measures according to local conditions and categories. We should proceed step by step and achieve long-term results, and promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas to continuously achieve substantial progress and phased results.
The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed for the first time the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.
Since then, the Central Committee’s No. 1 Document has focused on rural revitalization five times, the National Rural Revitalization Administration has been established, and the Rural Revitalization Promotion Law has been enacted.
In this year's People's Daily Online survey of the National Two Sessions, rural revitalization ranked among the top three hot words, and netizens are full of expectations for livable, workable and beautiful countryside.
In the new year, how to promote comprehensive rural revitalization?
Improve support mechanism
Of all things, eating is the most important thing.
Ensuring the supply of important agricultural products, especially grain, is the primary task in implementing the rural revitalization strategy.
"As a country with a large population like ours, we must practice the big agricultural concept and the big food concept, and always keep our jobs firmly in our hands." The government work report emphasized that we should strengthen the stable production and supply of grain and important agricultural products.
In 2023, my country's grain output will hit a new record high, stabilizing at more than 1.3 trillion jin for nine consecutive years.
Tang Renjian, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, introduced at the "Ministerial Channel" at the first session of the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress that last year the per capita grain share reached 493 kilograms, an increase of 7 kilograms from the previous year and continuing to be higher than the internationally recognized 400 kilograms. food security line.
This year, in order to ensure stable production and supply of grain and important agricultural products, the government work report proposed to appropriately increase the minimum purchase price of wheat, implement three major staple grain production cost and income insurance policies across the country, and improve the income guarantee mechanism for grain farmers.
Increase support for major grain-producing counties and improve the interest compensation mechanism for major grain-producing areas.
At the institutional level, we will solidly promote comprehensive rural revitalization. The government work report also proposes to increase support for the country’s key counties for rural revitalization, and establish and improve a regular assistance mechanism for rural low-income populations and underdeveloped areas, so as to make the results of poverty alleviation more stable and Results are more sustainable.
In this regard, Fujian proposed to improve the linkage assistance mechanism between key counties for rural revitalization and counties in underdeveloped old areas and Soviet areas, improve county-level counterpart coordination, build "enclave parks", support underdeveloped areas to cultivate specialty industries, and enhance hematopoietic function.
Sichuan implements the plan to promote the normalized monitoring and assistance system to prevent return to poverty, and improves the three-level grid management system in counties and villages.
Guarantee spending growth
Rich wealth turns into rain and falls into the fields.
In 2023, the proportion of the central government's rural revitalization subsidy funds used for industrial development has reached 60%.
We will build 50 new national modern agricultural industrial parks, 40 advantageous and characteristic industrial clusters, 200 strong agricultural industry towns and 100 agricultural modernization demonstration zones to promote the integration of production and villages and production and towns, so that more farmers can find employment nearby.
The "Report on the Implementation of the Central and Local Budgets in 2023 and the Draft Central and Local Budgets in 2024" submitted for review to the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress includes "supporting the promotion of comprehensive rural revitalization" as the main revenue and expenditure policy in 2024 , and listed three specific directions.
The first is to improve food security capabilities.
For example, the implementation scope of full-cost insurance and planting income insurance policies was expanded to achieve nationwide coverage of the three major staple foods, and agricultural insurance premium subsidies were arranged to be 54.5 billion yuan, an increase of 18.7%.
The second is to consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation.
For example, the central government's fiscal coordination to promote rural revitalization subsidy funds has increased to 177 billion yuan, and the proportion used for industrial development has generally remained stable.
The third is to promote rural development and construction.
For example, support local governments in building modern agricultural industrial parks and other platform carriers, accelerate the cultivation of new agricultural business entities, and vigorously develop local characteristic industries.
Geng Zunzhu, deputy to the National People's Congress and secretary of the Party branch of Gengdian New Village, Jiazhai Town, Chiping District, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, suggested in an interview with the media that the proportion of special funds for rural industry revitalization should be increased to ensure that the investment direction meets the long-term planning and actual needs of rural industry development.
Strengthen the talent team
The key to rural revitalization lies in people.
The government work report proposes to cultivate and make good use of rural talents.
The No. 1 central government document in 2024 proposed to implement the rural revitalization talent support plan, increase the cultivation of local rural talents, orderly guide various professional and technical talents from the city to serve in the countryside, and comprehensively improve the comprehensive quality of farmers.
Strengthen the training and use of agricultural science and technology talents and rural high-skilled talents, and improve the evaluation incentive mechanism and safeguard measures.
In order to implement the requirements of the Central Committee's No. 1 Document, various localities have issued implementation opinions.
Jiangsu proposed to vigorously cultivate a team of “new farmers”.
Accelerate the training of professional talents in rural planning, design, construction and management to create "rural craftsmen".
Improve mechanisms such as "county and township joint management" and "county management for township use and transfer to villages" to promote the overall training and use of talents within the county.
Jiangxi proposed to increase the training and introduction of agricultural industry leaders, business management, rural brokers, agricultural product operations, and marketing talents.
More than 25,000 high-quality farmers have been trained, and more than 10,000 people have been trained on e-commerce and live streaming.
Encourage agricultural-related colleges and universities to build industrial colleges such as Jiangxi Rural B&B College.
Implement policies such as grassroots talent recruitment, evaluation bias, and salary guarantees.
Shen Yanfen, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of the Guangzhou Zengcheng Star Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative Federation, suggested strengthening the training of agricultural e-commerce live broadcast professionals to further reduce logistics costs and drive more young people to return to their hometowns to start businesses and find employment.
Netizens also offered their support.
A netizen from Jiangsu left a message on the "Leadership Message Board" of People's Daily Online and suggested that the company should introduce, retain and cultivate talents by broadening talent introduction channels, increasing salary and benefits, and planning training systems.
A Hainan netizen suggested linking vocational schools to improve farmers’ production skills.
Building dreams and drawing new pictures of fertile fields, we are ready to go and have high morale!
(People's Daily Online reporter Jin Huihui and intern Yang Yiting)