CCTV News: A strong agricultural country is the foundation of a socialist modern country. Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Plan for Accelerating the Construction of an Agriculture Power (2024-2035)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). What are the specific highlights? Let’s see the expert’s interpretation.

Experts introduced that the "Plan" emphasizes the integrated promotion of agricultural modernization and rural modernization, and at the same time, it clearly explains the relationship between agricultural power, rural revitalization and agricultural and rural modernization. Hu Xiangdong, director of the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that a strong agricultural country is the strategic general outline for leading the "three rural" work, rural revitalization is the general grasp, and agricultural and rural modernization is the overall goal. Understanding the country's three aspects of the "three rural" work and knowing their differences and connections is the most important highlight.

The plan focuses on the five "strong", that is, strong supply guarantee, strong scientific and technological equipment, strong operating system, strong industrial resilience and strong competitiveness. The overall deployment of building a strong agricultural country has been made in these five aspects, and the main goals are put forward: by 2027, significant progress will be made in the construction of a strong agricultural country. The comprehensive revitalization of rural areas has made substantial progress, and the modernization of agriculture and rural areas has reached a new level; by 2035, the construction of an agricultural power will achieve remarkable results, the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas will make decisive progress, agricultural modernization will be basically achieved, and rural areas will basically have modern living conditions; by the middle of this century, the strong agricultural power will be fully built. At the same time, the "Plan" also clarifies that the construction of an agricultural power is being promoted in various regions at a stage.

Hu Xiangdong said that the current situation in our country is a "big country and small farmers", and the characteristics between regions are different and the resource endowments are different. The distinctive feature of this plan to strengthen the country is to encourage, especially the eastern provinces to be the first to build agricultural provinces. For related cities and cities in central and western provinces, cities and counties with conditions have become agriculturally strong cities, and counties with conditions have become agriculturally strong counties. Grassroots exploration is encouraged, leading the way first, and then conducting institutional and mechanism exploration, and complementing each other to achieve a strong agricultural country.

Build a solid material foundation and accelerate the construction of an agricultural power

The "Plan" proposes to make ensuring the stable and safe supply of grain and important agricultural products the top priority, implement the strategy of storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology, and build a solid material foundation for accelerating the construction of an agricultural power. Let’s see the expert interpretation.

The "Plan" focuses on the shortcomings in the supply guarantee of grain and important agricultural products, and proposes to lay a solid five foundations, including the facilities, technical foundation, equipment foundation, policy foundation, and institutional foundation, and to strengthen the initiative in food security at a high level. At the same time, the "Plan" proposes to promote major agricultural scientific and technological breakthroughs, promote the construction of an agricultural power by developing new agricultural quality productivity, including promoting comprehensive breakthroughs in independent innovation in seed industry, promoting the comprehensive upgrade of agricultural machinery and equipment throughout the process, promoting the comprehensive integration of digital technology and modern agriculture, and releasing digital productivity in agriculture and rural areas. Tu Shengwei, a researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, introduced that in recent years, some large-scale digital technologies have been widely used in agricultural production, and the production methods and organizational models of agriculture have undergone great changes. The digital productivity of agriculture and rural areas is empowering agricultural modernization construction.

Experts said that the fundamentals of my country's agricultural production are large and scattered small-scale farming operations. There is no precedent in the world how to rely on small-scale family operations to build an agricultural power. To this end, the "Plan" proposes to develop moderate-scale agricultural operations and promote the organic connection between small farmers and modern agricultural development. Tu Shengwei said that the first is land scale, and the second is service scale. At present, we must pay more attention to the scale of services in the future. Therefore, this plan mentioned that we should improve the agricultural social service system, organize the production of thousands of households through the scale of services, and provide good services, so as to improve the labor output rate and resource utilization efficiency of agriculture.

Two major focus on promoting common prosperity and development in urban and rural areas

The "Plan" proposes to make the achievements of building an agricultural power more and more equitably benefit farmers. How should it be promoted specifically? Let’s continue to look at the expert’s interpretation. The "Plan" emphasizes that with the focus on promoting farmers' continuous increase in income and the continuous narrowing of urban-rural income gap, we will coordinate the promotion of industrial development and work and employment, improve the support system for strengthening agriculture, benefiting farmers and enriching farmers, firmly maintain the bottom line of preventing large-scale poverty relapse, and promote common prosperity and development in urban and rural areas.

Tu Shengwei said that we can start from the two aspects of increasing income and reducing burden. From the perspective of income increase, in addition to strengthening employment and employment, it also needs to strengthen and expand the county-level industries that enrich the people. The county has relatively outstanding advantages in enriching the people and has a large employment capacity. By guiding and supporting local conditions to develop and strengthening county industries, it can drive the majority of farmers to increase their employment and income; in terms of reducing burdens, it is to gradually solve the burden on farmers in employment, medical care, health, social security, etc.

The "Plan" clearly states that the county-level industries will be strengthened, the county-level industries will be accelerated into the industrial chain and supply chain innovation chain of neighboring large and medium-sized cities, and the labor-intensive industries will be transferred to the county in stages. At the same time, counties should be regarded as an important entry point for urban-rural integrated development, promote urban-rural transportation and road connection, power supply network interconnection, and passenger logistics integration, and promote the unification of basic public service standards and systems in urban and rural areas. Hu Xiangdong said that to achieve a unified urban-rural structure with different and no gaps between urban and rural areas, you can also enjoy the same standards of public services in the city, including medical care, education, elderly care, etc. in rural areas.