Rural revitalization strategy: a new blueprint for the development of agriculture, countryside and farmers

The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China attaches great importance to the work concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and emphasizes that "the problem of farmers in agriculture and rural areas is a fundamental issue related to the national economy and people’s livelihood, and we must always take solving the problem of agriculture, rural areas and farmers as the top priority of the whole party’s work" and put forward the strategy of "implementing rural revitalization".

Vigorously promoting rural revitalization, raising it to a strategic level and writing it into party constitution is a major strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee with an eye to building a well-off society in an all-round way and building a socialist modernization power in an all-round way. It is an inevitable requirement for accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, enhancing the sense of happiness of hundreds of millions of farmers, consolidating the ruling foundation of the party in rural areas and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and has pointed out the direction and defined the key points for the reform and development of agriculture and rural areas in the new era.

Hundreds of millions of farmers have new expectations


In order to promote rural revitalization, Luozhuang Township, Renxian County, Hebei Province has vigorously explored the development of characteristic lantern making industry in recent years. The township has achieved annual production and sales of more than 2 million lanterns, with an output value of more than 30 million yuan. Reporter Shi Ziqiang photo

China has a long history, and the countryside plays an important role in the country. After the founding of New China, we experienced the process of industrialization, with the city and industry as the core of policy orientation, and the countryside made great contributions to the development of industry and cities.

Some analysts pointed out that today’s rural revitalization is an affirmation of the status and role of the countryside, and it is also a historical view of the status and role of the countryside. Rural revitalization and rejuvenation also reflects the unity of history and reality in the great journey of realizing the Chinese dream in rural China.

The national conditions of China’s large rural population determine that there will be no national modernization without rural revitalization and modernization.

At present, the biggest gap between China and developed countries is not in cities, but in the countryside. Rural areas are the biggest shortcomings in development, and there are problems such as insufficient infrastructure supply and backward living conditions.

Implementing the strategy of rural revitalization is an important follow-up to do a good job in "agriculture, countryside and farmers" in the new period. Han Jun, director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said that solving the "three rural issues" has always been the top priority of the whole party’s work. On this basis, the rural revitalization strategy was put forward, and the policy intention was clear and clear. "The report of the 19th National Congress talked about seven strategies, and the rural revitalization strategy was one of them. This is a major strategic task to build a well-off society in an all-round way and a socialist modern power in an all-round way. This is a new strategic deployment and new requirement made by the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core for the work concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers, which is of great significance. Hundreds of millions of farmers are also full of expectations for the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. "

Rural development is full of new impetus.

Beautiful countryside, Heishan Town, Wansheng Economic and Technological Development Zone, Chongqing, is under construction. Photo by Cao Yonglong (People’s Vision)

Since the beginning of this century, the central government has increased its support for rural areas. Over the years, the No.1 Document of the Central Committee has focused on the issues of agriculture, countryside and farmers. The 17th and 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the development ideas of urban-rural overall planning and urban-rural integration respectively, which played an important role in promoting rural development and increasing farmers’ income. However, from the perspective of development momentum, the policy focuses on cities, and the policy means used are the feedback and support of cities and industries to rural areas. The rural revitalization strategy is more fully based on rural industrial, ecological, cultural and other resources, and pays more attention to the initiative of rural areas, so as to stimulate the vitality of rural development and establish a more sustainable endogenous growth mechanism.

The report of the 19th National Congress put forward that "the industry is prosperous, the ecology is livable, the rural customs are civilized, the governance is effective, and the life is rich"Yu "overall requirements for rural development. These five aspects are complementary organic whole. Prosperity of industry means jumping out of single agriculture, realizing the integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, making agriculture a high-yield industry, thus driving the steady growth of farmers’ income, enhancing the cohesion of rural grass-roots organizations, making the countryside a beautiful homeland that people yearn for, and realizing rural modernization in the new era.

The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China also put forward hit the floor’s idea of "keeping Chinese’s rice bowl firmly in his own hands". The issue of rice bowl is related to national strategic security. Therefore, it is necessary to keep the land contract relationship unchanged for a long time, so that farmers can have a "reassurance", and on the basis of stabilizing the basic rural management system, adapt to the trend of economic and social development, cultivate new agricultural management entities, and make agricultural production more efficient.

Rural revitalization depends on deepening reform

In recent years, Qianchuan Town, Lin ‘an District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province has vigorously developed ecological sightseeing agriculture and rural farmhouse music. In 2016, Qianchuan Town Farmhouse received 550,000 tourists. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Yushe

"China’s reform started from the countryside. In the new era, it is necessary to deepen reform to enhance the kinetic energy of agriculture and rural areas and promote rural revitalization." Han Changfu, Minister of Agriculture, pointed out in his article "A Tutorial Reader for the Report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China".

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the central government has issued a series of important documents to deepen rural reform, including the Comprehensive Implementation Plan for Deepening Rural Reform, and established the "four pillars and eight pillars" for rural reform and development.

The report of the 19th National Congress made further arrangements for rural reform. The report proposes to consolidate and improve agricultureVillage basic management system, deepen the reform of rural land system, and improve the "three powers" separation system of contracted land. Keep the land contract relationship stable and unchanged for a long time, and extend it for another 30 years after the second round of land contracting expires. In addition, the reform of rural collective property rights system is also the focus of rural reform delineated in the report of the 19th National Congress. The report proposes to deepen the reform of rural collective property rights system, protect farmers’ property rights and interests, and expand the collective economy.

According to Professor Zheng Fengtian, a professor at the School of Agriculture and Rural Development of China Renmin University, land policy is the starting point of rural revitalization, and rural areas can make a fuss about land and develop the old-age care industry and rural leisure tourism industry.

He analyzed that at present, most villages in China are unable to attract the urban elderly to support the elderly in the countryside, because of the lack of policy guidance, social funds can not enter the countryside, and the hardware and software conditions in the countryside can not be improved in time.

In the past few years, building ecological civilization and strengthening pollution prevention and control have become one of the important tasks in China, and the countryside is an important battlefield for this work. Therefore, the report of the 19th National Congress proposed to strengthen soil pollution control and remediation, strengthen agricultural non-point source pollution prevention and control, and carry out rural human settlements improvement actions. The report also requires the completion of the delineation of three control lines: ecological protection red line, permanent basic farmland and urban development boundary; Improve the natural forest protection system and expand returning farmland to forests and grasslands; Strictly protect cultivated land, expand the pilot project of crop rotation and fallow, and improve cultivated land, grassland, forests, rivers and lakes.Rest and recuperation system, establish a market-oriented and diversified ecological compensation mechanism.

Since the beginning of this year, many reforms have been tested. The No.1 Document of the Central Committee issued at the beginning of this year proposed to increase the efforts to revitalize the rural stock of construction land on the premise of controlling the total amount of rural construction land and not occupying permanent basic farmland. Construction land saved through village renovation, homestead consolidation, etc. is allowed to take the form of shareholding and joint venture, with emphasis on supporting rural leisure, tourism, pension and other industries and the integrated development of rural tertiary industry. In August this year, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development jointly issued the "Pilot Program for Building Rental Housing with Collective Construction Land".

Accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.


In the construction of beautiful countryside, Jinzhai County has basically achieved the goal of having a farmers’ cultural paradise in every village. Xinhua News Agency reporter Tao Mingshe

The report of the 19th National Congress proposed to accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. From the past "agricultural modernization" to "agricultural and rural modernization", this is the party’s rethinking of the positioning of agriculture and rural areas, which will usher in new development opportunities for agriculture and rural areas.

"Promoting the modernization of agriculture and rural areas involves the construction of rural economy, rural politics, rural culture, rural society and rural ecological civilization." Han Jun said.

The communique of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee put forward a major historical task-the construction of a new socialist countryside, and its policy is "development of production, affluent life, civilized rural customs, clean village appearance and democratic management". Twelve years later, the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China used 20 words and put forward new requirements: "the industry is prosperous, the ecology is livable, the rural customs are civilized, the governance is effective, and the life is rich". Experts said that the changes from "production development" to "industrial prosperity", from "clean villages" to "ecologically livable", from "affluent life" to "affluent life" and from "democratic management" to "effective governance" reflect the inevitable requirements of agricultural and rural development to a new stage under the new historical background.

At present, China’s economic strength and comprehensive national strength have been significantly enhanced, and it has the material and technical conditions to support the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. Han Jun said that it is necessary to mobilize all social forces to increase support for "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" and strive to form a new development pattern of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" in China.

The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to keep the land contract relationship stable and unchanged for a long time, and to extend it for another 30 years after the second round of land contracting expires. Han Changfu believes that "this is a policy’ big gift package’ for hundreds of millions of farmers."

Han Changfu said that this policy arrangement conforms to the expectations of farmers and brings tangible benefits to farmers. Farmers can not only settle down to engage in production, but also transfer land management rights with confidence, and they can also work in cities with peace of mind. The expectation of new-type agricultural operators is also more stable. They can invest with confidence, expand production and improve farmland facilities, which is conducive to the formation of various forms of moderate scale management and the promotion of agricultural modernization with China characteristics.

Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of China Academy of Social Sciences, said: "The report of the 19th National Congress put forward the strategy of rural revitalization, which has well inherited the Party’s consistent attention to the issue of agriculture, rural areas and farmers and carried out innovative development, which is conducive to the formation of a two-wheel drive of urbanization and urbanization." He said that adhering to the priority development of agriculture and rural areas has released a signal to all sectors of society: the allocation of resource elements should continue to tilt towards "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" to make up for shortcomings and strong and weak items, and the cause of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" is promising.

The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to build a modern agricultural industrial system, production system and management system, improve the agricultural support and protection system, develop various forms of moderate scale operation, cultivate new agricultural business entities, improve the agricultural socialized service system, and realize the organic connection between small farmers and modern agricultural development. Experts said that the report emphasizes the relationship between "small farmers" and "modern agriculture", which is the protection of vulnerable groups in the process of agricultural and rural modernization.

The new blueprint for the development of "agriculture, countryside and farmers" has been drawn, and the rural revitalization that people expect is no longer far away.

"It is foreseeable that the rural revitalization strategy will really benefit agriculture, rural areas and farmers, narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas, and lay the foundation for the realization of the goal of’ two hundred years’." Li Guoxiang said. (Reporter Lu Peifa)