In the next five years, agricultural and rural modernization will be built like this

The 14th Five-Year Plan for Promoting Agricultural and Rural Modernization was issued.
In the next five years, agricultural and rural modernization will be built like this

Recently, the State Council issued the "14th Five-Year Plan to Promote Agricultural and Rural Modernization" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), and put forward the thinking objectives and key tasks of agricultural and rural modernization in the next five years. The State Council Information Office held a policy briefing on December 8th, and introduced the relevant situation. Experts pointed out that this is the first plan to integrate agricultural modernization and rural modernization, and the blueprint for promoting agricultural and rural modernization in the 14 th Five-Year Plan has been drawn.

Important progress will be made in agricultural and rural modernization.

Deng Xiaogang, vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, introduced that the Planning was led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the National Development and Reform Commission, and was compiled with 32 departments. The main contents included the development characteristics, strategic orientation, overall requirements, main objectives, key tasks, major projects, policies and measures of agricultural and rural modernization during the 14 th Five-Year Plan.

Specifically, "Planning" made it clear that seven key tasks should be focused on in promoting agricultural and rural modernization during the 14th Five-Year Plan, namely "three upgrades, three constructions and one connection".

"Three upgrades" means improving the supply security level of important agricultural products such as grain, improving the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of agriculture, and improving the modernization level of industrial chain supply chain. In this regard, the Plan puts forward tasks such as stabilizing the sown area of grain, strengthening the protection and quality construction of cultivated land, strengthening the support of modern agricultural science and technology, and promoting the integrated development of rural industrial parks.

"Three constructions", that is, building a livable and suitable village, building a green beautiful countryside and building a civilized and harmonious village. In this regard, the "Planning" puts forward tasks such as strengthening rural infrastructure construction, focusing on promoting standardized agricultural production, and improving rural governance systems.

"One connection" means consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation, effectively connecting and comprehensively promoting rural revitalization. Deng Xiaogang introduced that the "Planning" proposes tasks such as consolidating and improving the achievements of poverty alleviation, improving the overall development level of poverty-stricken areas, and improving the assistance mechanism for rural low-income people and underdeveloped areas, so that poverty-stricken areas can accelerate the pace of national modernization.

"The" Planning "proposes that through five years of efforts, by 2025, the agricultural foundation will be more stable, the rural revitalization strategy will be comprehensively promoted, and important progress will be made in agricultural and rural modernization." Deng Xiaogang said, "Strive to make decisive progress in the overall revitalization of rural areas by 2035, and basically realize the modernization of agriculture and rural areas."

Let farmers share the dividend of digital economy development

"At present, the new kinetic energy represented by the digital economy is accelerating, and digital technology and agriculture and rural areas are also accelerating integration, and new technologies, new products and new models are constantly emerging." Zeng Yande, chief agronomist of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and director of the Development Planning Department, said, "During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, to promote the digital development of agriculture and rural areas, the key point is to improve the rural information technology infrastructure construction, accelerate the popularization and application of digital technology, and let farmers share the dividend of digital economy development."

According to reports, around the digital empowerment of agricultural and rural modernization, the "Planning" focuses on three aspects:

-building a strong infrastructure. Focusing on new construction and transformation, the Plan proposes to promote the simultaneous planning and construction of rural Gigabit optical networks, 5G, mobile Internet of Things and cities, improve the level of rural broadband networks, and promote the digital and intelligent upgrading of agricultural production and processing and rural infrastructure.

-developing smart agriculture. The "Planning" proposes to establish and promote the application of big data system in agriculture and rural areas, promote the deep integration of next-generation information technologies such as Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence and blockchain with agricultural production and operation, and build a number of digital pastoral areas, digital irrigation areas and smart farming and animal husbandry fisheries to continuously improve the digital level of agricultural development.

-Building a digital village. The "Planning" clearly defines the construction of a rural digital service system that combines online and offline to benefit the people and facilitate the people, promote the extension of "internet plus" government services to rural grassroots, deepen the construction of rural smart communities, promote the combination of rural education, medical care, culture and digitalization, and improve the intelligent and accurate level of rural governance and services.

Take the road of urban-rural integration and development

Wu Xiao, director of the Rural Economic Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that to accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, we must take the road of urban-rural integration.

How to solve the problem of agricultural population settlement? The "Planning" emphasizes that the reform of household registration system and the full coverage of permanent residents in urban basic public services should be promoted as a whole, with the focus on relaxing the restrictions on urban settlement except for a few megacities, and using residence permits as a carrier to achieve full coverage of urban basic public services. In addition, it is necessary to protect the rural land contracting rights, homestead use rights and collective income distribution rights of farmers who have settled in cities according to law, establish a market system for rural property rights transfer, and improve the market-oriented exit mechanism and supporting policies for farmers’ "three rights".

Take the county as an important starting point for the integration of urban and rural development. Wu Xiao introduced that the "Planning" proposes to promote the urbanization construction with the county as an important carrier, promote the upgrading and capacity expansion of facilities such as public services, environmental sanitation, municipal utilities and industrial facilities in the county, enhance the comprehensive carrying capacity and governance capacity, and give the county more resources. Integrate the right to use and strengthen the comprehensive service capacity of the county. Strengthen the overall planning of counties and villages, promote the unified planning, construction and management of public facilities within the county, and promote the unification of basic public service standards and system integration within the county.

In addition, it is necessary to smooth the circulation channels of urban and rural factors. The "Planning" clarifies that the institutional channel for the free flow of urban and rural factors will be opened up, and a virtuous circle of rural talents, land, capital and industry will be formed. Promote the two-way flow of urban and rural human resources, establish and improve the system and mechanism for revitalizing rural talents, and improve the mechanism for introducing, cultivating, using, evaluating and encouraging talents.

"The Plan gives priority to ensuring and improving people’s livelihood in rural areas, strengthens the use of industry to supplement agriculture and cities to bring rural areas, accelerates the establishment and improvement of institutional mechanisms and policy systems for urban-rural integrated development, promotes county-level overall planning of public resources, and promotes coordinated urban-rural development and common prosperity." Wu Xiao said. (Reporter Kong Dechen)