Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 19th
Some Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Adhering to the Priority Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas and Doing a Good Job in "Agriculture, Countryside and Farmers"
(January 3, 2019)
This year and next are the decisive period for building a well-off society in an all-round way, and there are many hard tasks that must be completed in the field of agriculture, rural areas and farmers. The CPC Central Committee believes that under the complicated situation of increasing downward pressure on the economy and profound changes in the external environment, it is of special importance to do a good job in the work of agriculture, rural areas and farmers. We must persist in taking solving the problems concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers as the top priority of the whole party’s work, further unify our thinking, strengthen our confidence and implement our work, consolidate the good situation of developing agriculture and rural areas, give play to the role of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" as a ballast stone, win the initiative to effectively cope with various risk challenges, and lay the foundation for ensuring sustained and healthy economic development and overall social stability and achieving the goal of the first century on schedule.
To do a good job in agriculture, countryside and farmers, we should take Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era as the guide, fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 19th National Congress and the Central Economic Work Conference, closely focus on coordinating and promoting the overall layout of "five in one" and the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, firmly grasp the general tone of striving for progress while maintaining stability, implement the requirements of high-quality development, and adhere to the general policy of giving priority to the development of agriculture and rural areas. Taking the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy as the overall starting point, we should benchmark the hard tasks that must be completed in building a well-off society in an all-round way, adapt to the new requirements of rural reform and development put forward by the complex situation changes at home and abroad, focus on key points, fill shortcomings and strengthen the foundation, deepen the structural reform of the agricultural supply side around "consolidating, strengthening, upgrading and smoothing", resolutely win the battle against poverty, give full play to the role of rural grassroots party organizations as a fighting fortress, and comprehensively promote rural revitalization to ensure the smooth completion by 2020.
First, focus on precise policy, decisive battle to win the fight against poverty
(1) Complete the task of tackling poverty to the letter. Stick to the established goal of poverty alleviation and implement the existing policy deployment. By 2020, we will ensure that the rural poor will be lifted out of poverty under the current standards, all poverty-stricken counties will be stripped of their hats, and regional overall poverty will be solved. Adhere to the current poverty alleviation standards, comprehensively investigate and solve outstanding problems that affect the realization of "two guarantees and three guarantees", prevent blindly raising standards and raising appetite, and put an end to digital poverty alleviation and false poverty alleviation. Strengthen poverty alleviation monitoring. Further compact the responsibility of poverty alleviation, implement the most stringent assessment, and accurately ask for accountability. We will continue to strengthen poverty alleviation cooperation between the east and the west and designated poverty alleviation by the central units. Deepen the efforts to grasp the Party building, and promote poverty alleviation. Organize normalized interviews and talk at any time when problems are found. Make good use of the results of the special inspection of poverty alleviation and promote the implementation of political responsibility for poverty alleviation.
(2) focus on deep poverty-stricken areas. Aim at the key and difficult problems that restrict the accurate poverty alleviation in deep poverty areas, make a list, clarify the responsibilities item by item, and reconcile the sales numbers. Major construction projects continue to tilt towards deep poverty-stricken areas, and policies and measures such as poverty alleviation by characteristic industries, ex situ poverty alleviation, ecological poverty alleviation, financial poverty alleviation, social assistance, and cadres and talents are tilted towards deep poverty-stricken areas. Finance at all levels will give priority to increasing capital investment in "three districts and three states" to tackle poverty. For the deep poverty-stricken areas with a large number of poor people, high incidence of poverty and great difficulty in getting rid of poverty outside the "three districts and three States", it is also necessary to co-ordinate capital projects and increase support.
(3) Focus on solving outstanding problems. Pay attention to the development of long-term poverty alleviation industries, focus on solving problems such as disjointed production and marketing and insufficient risk protection, and improve the participation and direct benefit level of poor people. Strengthen the follow-up measures for ex situ poverty alleviation and relocation, focus on solving the problem of heavy relocation and light follow-up assistance, and ensure the relocation of one household and the stable poverty alleviation of one household. Strengthen compulsory education in poverty-stricken areas to control dropout and protect education, and avoid dropping out of school because of poverty. We will implement multiple security measures such as basic medical insurance, serious illness insurance and medical assistance, build a solid network of rural health services, and ensure the basic medical needs of the poor. Solidly promote ecological poverty alleviation and promote the coordination between poverty alleviation and development and ecological protection. Adhere to the combination of poverty alleviation and supporting the mind, strengthen vocational education and skills training in poverty-stricken areas, strengthen the overall connection between development-oriented poverty alleviation and affordable poverty alleviation, focus on solving the problems of "taking it all in one pocket" and some poor people, and enhance the endogenous motivation and self-development ability of poor people. Effectively strengthen the front-line precision assistance force, and select the best and strengthen the resident team. Care and care for poverty alleviation cadres, increase work support, help solve practical difficulties and relieve worries. We will continue to carry out special treatment of corruption and work style in the field of poverty alleviation, and severely investigate and deal with problems such as false reporting, embezzlement, misappropriation, caring for relatives and friends, and eating and getting cards.
(4) Consolidate and expand the achievements in tackling poverty. After poverty-stricken counties, poor villages and poor people quit during the crucial period, relevant poverty alleviation policies remained stable to reduce and prevent the poor people from returning to poverty. Study and solve new problems such as the lack of policy support for the people whose income level is slightly higher than that of the poor households who set up the card. Adhere to and promote good experiences, good practices and good ways in tackling poverty. Do a good job in linking poverty alleviation with rural revitalization. For poverty-stricken counties that have taken off their hats, they should consolidate their development achievements by implementing the rural revitalization strategy and continue to promote economic and social development and the improvement of people’s lives. Summarize the practical creation and great spirit of poverty alleviation. Plan the strategic thinking after the completion of the goal and task of poverty alleviation in 2020 as soon as possible.
Second, lay a solid foundation for agriculture and ensure the effective supply of important agricultural products
(1) Stabilizing grain output. We will do a good job in grain production, promote the implementation of grain storage on the ground and grain storage in technology, and ensure that the grain planting area is stable at 1.65 billion mu. We will steadily improve policies and measures to support grain production, tap the potential of stable production and increase production such as varieties, technologies and disaster reduction, and ensure farmers’ basic income from growing grain. Give full play to the advantages of major grain producing areas, improve the interest compensation mechanism of major grain producing areas, and improve the reward and compensation policy for major grain producing counties. Compacting the main sales area and the production and marketing balance area to stabilize grain production responsibility. Strictly observe the red line of 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land, fully implement the special protection system for permanent basic farmland, and ensure that the permanent basic farmland remains above 1.546 billion mu. Building a modern meteorological service system for agriculture. Strengthen the assessment of the responsibility system of the governor of food security.
(two) to complete the task of high standard farmland construction. Consolidate and improve grain production capacity, and ensure that 800 million mu of high-standard farmland will be built by 2020. Revision of the national master plan for high-standard farmland construction, unified planning and layout, construction standards, organization and implementation, acceptance and assessment, and storage of the above map. Strengthen capital integration, innovate investment and financing models, and establish a diversified financing mechanism. Implement regional overall construction, promote the comprehensive supporting of water, land, forest, road and electricity, and simultaneously develop high-efficiency water-saving irrigation. Complete the delineation of grain production functional zones and important agricultural products production protection zones, and give priority to the "two zones" for high-standard farmland construction projects. Resume the construction of high-quality cotton production base in Xinjiang, and cover the construction scope of sugar cane "double high" base to all designated protected areas. Further strengthen the construction of farmland water conservancy. Promote the water-saving transformation and modernization of large and medium-sized irrigation areas. Strengthen the protection of black land in Northeast China. Strengthen the comprehensive management of groundwater overexploitation in North China. We will promote the pilot project of remediation and planting structure adjustment of cultivated land polluted by heavy metals.
(3) Adjusting and optimizing the agricultural structure. Vigorously develop the production of green and high-quality agricultural products in short supply, and promote the transformation of agriculture from increasing production to improving quality. We will further promote the high-quality grain project. Implement the soybean revitalization plan and expand the planting area in many ways. Support the production of rape in the Yangtze River basin, and promote the demonstration and popularization of new varieties and technologies and the whole mechanization. Actively develop woody oil plants. We will promote the dairy industry, strengthen the construction of high-quality milk source bases, upgrade and transform small and medium-sized dairy farms, and implement the promotion of infant formula. Rationally adjust the grain feeding structure and develop the production of high-quality forage materials such as silage corn and alfalfa. Reasonably determine the scale of aquaculture in inland waters, reduce the over-dense cage culture in offshore waters and lakes and reservoirs, promote the construction of marine pastures, and develop offshore fisheries in a standardized and orderly manner. Reduce the fishing intensity of rivers, lakes and offshore fisheries, and fully implement the ban on fishing in the Yangtze River Aquatic Biological Reserve. Implement the quality and safety assurance project of agricultural products, and improve the supervision system, monitoring system and traceability system. Strengthen the monitoring and prevention of African swine fever and other animal epidemics, strictly implement prevention and control measures, and ensure industrial safety.
(4) Accelerate the breakthrough of key agricultural core technologies. Strengthen innovation-driven development, implement key agricultural core technology research actions, cultivate a number of agricultural strategic scientific and technological innovation forces, and promote independent innovation in the fields of biological seed industry, heavy agricultural machinery, smart agriculture, and green inputs. We will build scientific and technological innovation platform bases such as the State Key Laboratory of agriculture, build a deep integration platform in Industry-University-Research, and strengthen the construction of national modern agricultural industrial technology system, scientific and technological innovation alliance, industrial innovation center, high-tech industrial demonstration zone, and science and technology park. Strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in technological innovation, cultivate innovative agricultural science and technology enterprises, and support qualified enterprises to take the lead in implementing technological innovation projects. We will continue to organize and implement joint research on improved varieties of rice, wheat, corn, soybeans and livestock and poultry, and accelerate the breeding and popularization of high-quality grass seeds. Support weak links to apply agricultural machinery research and development, promote the transformation and upgrading of agricultural machinery and equipment industry, and accelerate agricultural mechanization. Strengthen the creation and application of intellectual property rights in agriculture. Accelerate the integration, innovation and popularization and application of advanced and practical technologies. Establish and improve the property right system of agricultural scientific research achievements, give scientific research personnel the ownership of scientific research achievements, improve the talent evaluation and flow guarantee mechanism, and implement the policy of part-time and part-time salary and distribution of rights and interests of achievements.
(five) the implementation of important agricultural products security strategy. Strengthen the top-level design and system planning, ensure the supply of important agricultural products such as grain based on the domestic market, make overall use of the international and domestic markets and resources, scientifically determine the level of domestic important agricultural products, improve the security system, and improve domestic security capabilities. Take rice and wheat as the necessary varieties to stabilize corn production and ensure the basic self-sufficiency of grain and the absolute safety of rations. Accelerate the legislative process of food security. On the basis of improving quality and increasing efficiency, we will consolidate the production capacity of cotton, oilseeds, sugar and natural rubber. Accelerate and support agriculture to go global, strengthen international cooperation in agriculture in the Belt and Road Initiative, actively expand the import of agricultural products in short supply in China, expand diversified import channels, cultivate a number of multinational agricultural enterprise groups, and improve the level of agricultural foreign cooperation. Strengthen the comprehensive management of anti-smuggling of agricultural products.
Third, solidly promote rural construction and speed up the shortcomings of rural human settlements and public services.
(1) Do a good job in the three-year action of rural human settlements improvement. In-depth study and promotion of Zhejiang’s "Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project experience, comprehensively push forward the renovation of rural human settlements focusing on rural garbage and sewage treatment, toilet revolution and village appearance improvement, and ensure that by 2020, the rural human settlements will be significantly improved, the village environment will be basically clean and orderly, and the villagers’ awareness of environment and health will be generally enhanced. Encourage all localities to base themselves on reality and adjust measures to local conditions, rationally choose a simple and long-term remediation model, and focus on solving technical problems. Establish a government investment mechanism with local priority and central subsidies. The central government gives subsidies to the rural toilet revolution and the promotion of the whole village, and rewards the advanced counties for the improvement of rural human settlements. The central budget invests in special funds to support the improvement of rural human settlements. Allow the county to co-ordinate and integrate relevant funds according to regulations, and focus on the improvement of rural human settlements. Encourage social forces to actively participate and organically combine the improvement of rural human settlements with the development of rural leisure tourism. Carry out extensive village cleaning operations. Create beautiful livable villages and the most beautiful courtyards. The renovation of rural human settlements should be compatible with the level of rural economic development, coordinated with local culture and customs, pay attention to practical results and prevent superficial work.
(two) the implementation of village infrastructure construction projects. We will promote the consolidation and upgrading of rural drinking water safety, strengthen the protection of rural drinking water sources, and speed up the solution to the problems of "difficulty in drinking water" and unsafe drinking water in rural areas. We will comprehensively promote the construction of "four good rural roads", increase the implementation of "road length system" and demonstration counties, and realize that all qualified villages will pass through hardened roads, and conditional areas will extend to natural villages. Strengthen the construction of roads in the village. Fully implement the rural electrification upgrading project and accelerate the completion of a new round of rural power grid transformation. Improve the county and rural logistics infrastructure network, support the construction of agricultural products storage and preservation, grading packaging and other facilities, and encourage enterprises to establish logistics distribution outlets in counties and villages with conditions. Accelerate the extension of broadband networks to villages and speed up and reduce fees. Continue to promote the renovation of dilapidated houses in rural areas. We will improve the long-term mechanism for the construction and management of village infrastructure, clarify the responsibilities of all parties for management and protection, and encourage local governments to include management and protection expenses in their fiscal budgets.
(3) Improve the level of rural public services. Comprehensively improve the level of public services such as rural education, medical and health care, social security, old-age care, culture and sports, and accelerate the equalization of basic public services in urban and rural areas. Promote the integrated development of urban and rural compulsory education, and thoroughly implement the nutrition improvement plan for rural compulsory education students. We will implement the plan of popularizing high school education and strengthen rural children’s health improvement, early education and preschool education. Accelerate the construction of standardized village clinics and implement the special post plan for general practitioners. Establish and improve a unified basic medical insurance system for urban and rural residents, and simultaneously integrate serious illness insurance for urban and rural residents. Improve the basic old-age insurance benefits for urban and rural residents and the normal adjustment mechanism for basic pensions. Coordinate the urban and rural social assistance system, improve the minimum living security system and the special care and resettlement system. Accelerate the construction of comprehensive cultural service centers at the grassroots level in rural areas. We will improve the care service system for left-behind children, women and the elderly in rural areas, support the development of multi-level rural old-age care, and strengthen and improve rural disabled services. Promote the establishment of a basic public service funding mechanism for urban and rural planning, and improve the basic public service standards in rural areas.
(4) Strengthening rural pollution control and ecological environment protection. Make overall plans to promote the management of landscape forest, field, lake and grass system and promote the green development of agriculture and rural areas. Strengthen the control of agricultural non-point source pollution, carry out the action of saving fertilizer and medicine in agriculture, and realize the negative growth of chemical fertilizer and pesticide use. Develop eco-circular agriculture, promote the resource utilization of agricultural wastes such as livestock manure, straw and plastic film, realize the full coverage of the whole county in the resource utilization of livestock manure, and make great efforts to control white pollution. Expand the pilot system of crop rotation fallow. Create the pioneer area of agricultural green development. Implement rural greening and beautification actions, build a number of forest villages, protect ancient and famous trees, and carry out compensation for ecological benefits of wetlands and returning farmland to wet areas. Comprehensive protection of natural forests. Strengthen the restoration of degraded shelterbelts in the "Three North" areas. Expand returning farmland to forests and grasslands, and steadily implement returning grazing to grasslands. Implement a new round of subsidies and incentives for grassland ecological protection. Implement the system of river length and lake length, promote the management of rural water environment, and strictly manage the water ecological space such as the coastline of rural rivers and lakes.
(5) Strengthen the guidance of rural planning. Strengthen planning management as the basic work of rural revitalization and realize full coverage of planning management. County-level party committees and governments should make overall plans to promote rural planning. In accordance with the principle of planning before construction, we should comprehensively consider land use, industrial development, residential construction, human settlements improvement, ecological protection and historical and cultural heritage, pay attention to maintaining local features, and formulate practical village planning with multiple regulations. Strengthen the management of building permits in rural areas.
Fourth, develop and expand rural industries and broaden channels for farmers to increase their income.
(1) Accelerate the development of industries with rural characteristics. Develop diversified characteristic agriculture according to local conditions, and advocate "one village, one product" and "one county, one industry". Actively develop fruit and vegetable tea, edible fungi, miscellaneous grains and beans, potatoes, Chinese herbal medicines, special breeding, Lint flowers and seedlings and other industries. Support the construction of a number of advantageous areas of characteristic agricultural products. Innovate and develop rural handicrafts with ethnic and regional characteristics, vigorously tap skilled craftsmen in rural areas, and cultivate a number of family workshops, manual workshops and rural workshops. Improve the quality standard system of characteristic agricultural products, strengthen the protection of geographical indications and trademarks of agricultural products, and create a number of characteristic product brands of "local brand name" and "township brand name".
(2) Vigorously develop modern agricultural product processing industry. Taking "the head of the grain eats the tail" and "the head of the farmer works the tail" as the starting point, we will support the main producing areas to form agricultural product processing industrial clusters relying on the county, and leave the industrial chain in the county as far as possible to change the pattern of selling raw materials in rural areas and processing in cities. Support the development of primary processing of agricultural products suitable for family farms and farmers’ cooperatives, support the development of deep processing of agricultural products in counties, and build a number of specialized villages and towns and counties with strong processing of agricultural products. Coordinate the construction of agricultural products origin, distribution center and wholesale market, and strengthen the construction of agricultural products logistics backbone network and cold chain logistics system. Cultivate leading enterprises and consortia in agricultural industrialization, and promote the construction of modern agricultural industrial parks, demonstration parks for rural industrial integration and development, and towns with strong agricultural industries. We will improve the interest linkage mechanism for the integration and development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries, so that farmers can share more of the value-added benefits of industries.
(3) Developing new rural service industries. Support supply and marketing, postal services, agricultural service companies, farmers’ cooperatives, etc. to carry out agricultural production services such as agricultural technology extension, land trust, farming and planting, unified prevention and control, drying and storage. Give full play to the advantages of rural resources, ecology and culture, and develop industries that meet the needs of urban and rural residents, such as leisure tourism, catering, cultural experience, health and wellness, and old-age services. Strengthen the construction of rural tourism infrastructure and improve public service facilities such as health, transportation, information and postal services.
(4) Implementing the strategy of digital countryside. Further promote "Internet+Agriculture" and expand the demonstration application of agricultural Internet of Things. Promote the construction of big data in the whole industrial chain of important agricultural products and strengthen the construction of national digital agriculture rural system. We will continue to carry out a comprehensive demonstration of e-commerce in rural areas and implement the project of "internet plus" agricultural products leaving the village and entering the city. We will comprehensively promote the entry of information into villages and households, and rely on the "internet plus" to promote the extension of public services to rural areas.
(five) to promote the transfer of rural labor employment. We will implement a more active employment policy, strengthen employment services and vocational skills training, and promote the multi-channel transfer of rural labor and increase income. Develop and strengthen the county economy, guide the orderly gradient transfer of industries, support the development of suitable industries to small towns, support the development of rural enterprises with strong employment absorption ability, support enterprises to set up production workshops and employment bases in rural areas, and increase farmers’ local jobs. Stabilize the employment of migrant workers and ensure the timely and full payment of wages. Accelerate the urbanization of agricultural transfer population and promote the full coverage of permanent residents in urban basic public services.
(6) Support rural innovation and entrepreneurship. Encourage migrant workers, college graduates, veterans and urban talents to return to their hometowns to innovate and start businesses, support the establishment of various forms of entrepreneurial support service platforms, and improve the rural innovation and entrepreneurship support service system. We will implement the policy of tax reduction and fee reduction, encourage local governments to set up rural employment and entrepreneurship guidance funds, and speed up the settlement of difficulties such as land use and credit. Strengthen the construction of innovation and entrepreneurship incubation platforms, support the creation of a number of returning entrepreneurial parks, and support the development of small and micro enterprises.
Five, comprehensively deepen rural reform, stimulate the vitality of rural development
(1) Consolidate and improve the rural basic management system. Adhere to the basic position of family management and give new meaning to the two-tier management system. We will focus on family farms and farmers’ cooperatives as two new types of agricultural business entities, start the family farm cultivation plan, carry out the standardized promotion of farmers’ cooperatives, further promote the construction of demonstration cooperatives, and establish and improve the policy system and management system to support the development of family farms and farmers’ cooperatives. We will implement the policy of supporting small farmers and organically connecting modern agricultural development, and improve the interest linkage mechanism of "farmers+cooperatives" and "farmers+companies". Accelerate the cultivation of all kinds of socialized service organizations and provide all-round socialized services for one household. Accelerate the introduction of opinions on improving the grassland contract management system. Accelerate the comprehensive reform of agricultural water price and improve the incentive mechanism for water saving. We will continue to deepen the comprehensive reform of supply and marketing cooperatives and formulate regulations on supply and marketing cooperatives. Deepen the collective forest right system and the reform of state-owned forest farms. Vigorously promote the reform of collectivization and farm enterprise in agricultural reclamation areas.
(2) Deepening the reform of rural land system. Keep the rural land contract relationship stable and unchanged for a long time, study and introduce supporting policies, and guide all localities to clarify the specific measures for extending the contract after the second round of land contracting expires, so as to ensure a smooth transition of policy convergence. We will improve the laws, regulations and policy system for implementing collective ownership, stabilizing farmers’ contracting rights and freeing land management rights. On the basis of basically completing the registration and certification of contracted land ownership, we will carry out "looking back", do a good job of finishing the work, properly resolve the remaining problems, and issue the certificate of land contractual management right to farmers. We will improve the standardized management system for land circulation, develop various forms of moderate-scale agricultural operations, and allow secured financing for contracted land management rights. Summarize the experience of three pilot reforms of rural land system and consolidate the reform results. Adhere to the collective ownership of rural land, do not engage in privatization, adhere to the agricultural use of agricultural land, prevent non-agriculturalization, adhere to the protection of farmers’ land rights and interests, and do not take the withdrawal of contracted land and homestead as a condition for farmers to settle in cities, and further deepen the reform of rural land system. On the basis of amending relevant laws, we will improve the supporting system, comprehensively push forward the reform of rural land expropriation system and the reform of rural collective construction land entering the market, and accelerate the establishment of a unified urban and rural construction land market. Accelerate the registration and certification of the right to use the homestead, and strive to basically complete it in 2020. We will steadily and prudently promote the reform of the rural homestead system, expand the pilot reform, enrich the pilot content, and improve the system design. Pay close attention to the formulation of guiding opinions on strengthening the management of rural homestead. To study and draft regulations on the use of rural residential sites. Piloting the reclamation of idle homesteads.It is allowed to carry out rectification of idle school buildings, factories and abandoned land in rural areas throughout the county, and revitalize the construction land to support new rural industries and new formats and return to the countryside to start businesses. Strict management of land for agricultural facilities to meet reasonable demand. Consolidate the results of the rectification of the "big shed" problem. In accordance with the requirements of "taking it from agriculture and mainly using it for agriculture", we will adjust and improve the scope of land transfer income, increase the proportion of investment in agriculture and rural areas, and focus on the improvement of rural human settlements, village infrastructure construction and high-standard farmland construction. Solidly carry out the inter-provincial adjustment and use of new cultivated land indicators and savings indicators linked to the increase or decrease of urban and rural construction land, and all the adjustment proceeds will be used to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and support rural revitalization. Accelerate the revision of land management law, property law and other laws and regulations.
(3) Deepening the reform of rural collective property rights system. Complete the national rural collective assets verification on schedule, speed up the construction of rural collective assets supervision and management platform, and establish and improve various management systems for collective assets. Guide rural collective economic organizations to confirm their membership on the basis of democratic consultation, pay attention to protecting the legitimate rights of special groups such as married women, accelerate the reform of the joint-stock cooperative system of rural collective operating assets, and continue to expand the pilot scope. Summarize and promote the experience of changing resources into assets, funds into shares and farmers into shareholders. We will improve rural collective property rights and actively explore ways to pledge loans for collective assets. Study and formulate the rural collective economic organization law. We will improve the rural property rights transfer market and promote the open and standardized operation of various rural property rights transfer transactions. Study and improve the preferential tax policies suitable for the characteristics of rural collective economic organizations.
(4) Improve the agricultural support and protection system. In accordance with the principle of increasing the total amount, optimizing the stock and improving the efficiency, we will strengthen the orientation of high-quality green development and accelerate the construction of a new agricultural subsidy policy system. In accordance with the principles of adapting to WTO rules, protecting farmers’ interests and supporting agricultural development, we will promptly study and formulate suggestions on improving agricultural support and protection policies. Adjust and improve the "yellow box" policy and expand the scope of use of the "green box" policy. According to the orientation of giving full play to the role of market mechanism, we will improve the minimum purchase price policy for rice and wheat. Improve the subsidy policy for corn and soybean producers. We will improve the mechanism of subsidizing agricultural credit guarantee rates and substituting awards for subsidies, study and formulate specific measures for business assessment of guarantee institutions, and accelerate the scale of guarantee. Improve the agricultural insurance policy according to the requirements of expanding the scope, increasing the products and raising the standard. We will promote the pilot projects of full cost insurance and income insurance for rice, wheat and corn. Expand the agricultural catastrophe insurance pilot and the "insurance+futures" pilot. Explore the implementation of the pilot program of substituting awards for local agricultural products insurance with local advantages and characteristics. Open up all aspects of financial services for agriculture, rural areas and farmers, establish an incentive and restraint mechanism for county banking financial institutions to serve agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and realize that the growth rate of inclusive agriculture-related loans is generally higher than the average growth rate of various loans. Promote rural commercial banks, rural cooperative banks and rural credit cooperatives to gradually return to their original sources and serve the local "agriculture, rural areas and farmers". To study and formulate specific measures for performance evaluation and incentive of the "three rural" business units of commercial banks. Make good use of policies such as differentiated reserve ratio and differentiated supervision to effectively lower the threshold of credit guarantee services for agriculture, rural areas and farmers.Encourage banking financial institutions to increase medium-and long-term credit support for rural revitalization and poverty alleviation. Support the listing of featured agricultural futures options in key areas.
Six, improve the rural governance mechanism, maintain rural social harmony and stability.
(1) Enhance the ability of rural governance. Establish and improve the leadership system and working mechanism of the combination of autonomy, rule of law and rule of virtue led by party organizations, and give play to the role of the masses in governance. We will carry out pilot projects for the construction of rural governance systems and create demonstration villages and towns for rural governance. Strengthen the standardization and institutionalization of autonomous organizations, improve the system of village-level deliberation and consultation, promote the openness of village-level affairs, and strengthen the effective supervision of village-level power. Guide rural areas to generally formulate or revise village rules and regulations. Promote rural grassroots governance according to law and establish and improve the public legal service system. Strengthen comprehensive agricultural law enforcement.
(2) Strengthening the construction of spiritual civilization in rural areas. Guide farmers to practice socialist core values and consolidate the party’s ideological position in rural areas. Strengthen publicity and education, do a good job in the ideological work of the peasants, publicize the party’s line and principles and the policy of strengthening agriculture, benefiting farmers and enriching farmers, and guide farmers to listen to the party’s words, feel grateful to the party and follow the party. We will carry out pilot projects for the construction of civilized practice centers in the new era and do a good job in the construction of county-level media integration centers. We will deepen and expand mass activities to create spiritual civilization, launch a number of demonstration counties, civilized villages and towns, and the most beautiful families for the construction of spiritual civilization in rural areas, excavate and set up moral models, and play a leading role in demonstration. Support the construction of cultural auditorium, cultural square and other facilities, and cultivate villages and towns with distinctive culture. We will continue to promote the work of changing customs in rural areas, guide and encourage grassroots mass autonomous organizations in rural areas to take binding measures to control bad social practices such as bad habits of weddings and funerals, sky-high bride price, declining filial piety, and no support for the elderly.
(3) Continue to promote the construction of safe villages. We will further promote the special struggle against evil, severely crack down on evil forces in rural areas, and put an end to the erosion of grassroots political power by evil forces such as "village tyrants." Severely crack down on the infiltration of hostile forces, cult organizations and illegal religious activities into rural areas. Promote discipline inspection and supervision work to the grassroots level, and resolutely investigate and deal with unhealthy practices and corruption problems that occur around farmers. Improve the implementation of the leadership responsibility system for comprehensive management of social security. Deepen the expansion of grid service management, integrate the first-line security construction forces at the grassroots level, and put more resources, services and management into rural communities. Strengthen the investigation and special treatment of hidden dangers in areas prone to public safety incidents such as rural traffic, fire protection, public health, food and drug safety and geological disasters. Accelerate the construction of an information-based and intelligent rural social security prevention and control system and continue to promote the construction of the "discerning project" in rural areas. Adhere to the development of the "Maple Bridge Experience" in the new era, improve the mechanism for the investigation, mediation and resolution of rural contradictions and disputes, and improve the ability and level of serving the masses and maintaining stability.
Seven, give play to the role of rural party branches as battlefortresses, and comprehensively strengthen the construction of rural grassroots organizations.
(1) Strengthening the leading role of rural grass-roots party organizations. Strengthen rural grassroots party organizations, focus on improving organizational strength, highlight political functions, and continuously strengthen the construction of rural grassroots party organizations. Increase advanced branches, upgrade middle branches, rectify backward branches, and rectify the "one village, one policy" of weak and scattered village party organizations one by one by county. Take a "look back" on the change of the village "two committees" and resolutely clean up the members of the village "two committees" who have been criminally punished and have problems such as "village tyrants" and gangs and evils. Implement the overall optimization and promotion actions of the leaders of village party organizations, and fully equip the strong team. We will fully implement the filing management system for village party secretaries and county-level party committees. Establish a long-term working mechanism for the first secretary to be stationed, send the first secretary to poor villages, weak and scattered villages and empty-shell villages of collective economy in an all-round way, and expand to villages with heavy tasks of rural revitalization. Intensify the efforts to train and select village party secretary from outstanding party member of college graduates, migrant workers, veterans and institutions. Improve the normalization mechanism of selecting township leading cadres, examining township civil servants and recruiting township career staff from outstanding village party organization secretaries. Implement the five-year term of office of village party organizations, and promote the simultaneous change of village "two committees" and county and township. Optimize the team structure of rural party member, and increase the development of party member from young farmers and rural migrant workers. We will improve the responsibility system of county-level party committees for grasping townships and promoting villages, and county and township party committees should regularly investigate and solve outstanding problems in the construction of grassroots organizations in a timely manner. Strengthen and improve the leadership of village party organizations over various organizations at the village level,Improve the village-level organization system led by party organizations. We will fully implement the appointment of the secretary of the village party organization as the director of the village committee through legal procedures, and implement the cross-appointment of the members of the village "two committees" to increase the proportion of party member among the members of the village committee and the villagers’ representatives. Strengthen the leadership of the Party branch over village-level collective economic organizations. We will fully implement the "four discussions and two openness" and improve the mechanism for studying and discussing important issues and major issues at the village level by village party organizations.
(two) to play the role of various organizations at the village level. Clarify the functional orientation of various village-level organizations, and realize that all kinds of grass-roots organizations should be set up according to their needs, perform their duties according to their duties, have people to handle affairs, and have rules and regulations. Villagers’ committees should perform the functions of grass-roots mass autonomous organizations and enhance villagers’ self-management, self-education and self-service. Establish and improve supervision committee in an all-round way, and play a supervisory role in matters such as village decision-making and publicity, property management, project construction, and implementation of policies and measures to benefit farmers. Strengthen the service function of collective economic organizations and play a role in managing collective assets, rationally developing collective resources and serving collective members. Give play to the positive role of rural social organizations in serving farmers and establishing new styles.
(3) Strengthening the service function of village-level organizations. In accordance with the principle of being conducive to the construction of village-level organizations and serving the masses, the work items that are suitable for village-level organizations to handle or undertake are handed over to village-level organizations, and the necessary working conditions are guaranteed. Standardize village-level organizations to assist the government’s work, and prevent arbitrary increase in the workload of village-level organizations. Coordinate the reform of township stations, strengthen the construction of township service system for agriculture, and ensure that townships have teams and resources to serve agriculture.
(4) Improve the fund guarantee mechanism for the operation of village-level organizations. We will improve the financial investment-oriented and stable system for ensuring the operation funds of village-level organizations, fully implement the remuneration package of village cadres and the office funds of village-level organizations, establish a normal growth mechanism, and ensure other necessary expenditures such as the operation and maintenance of village-level public services. Take the development and expansion of village-level collective economy as an important measure to play the leading role of rural grass-roots party organizations, increase policy support and overall promotion, develop and expand village-level collective economy according to local conditions, and enhance the self-protection and service ability of village-level organizations.
Eight, strengthen the party’s leadership over the work of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and implement the general policy of giving priority to the development of agriculture and rural areas.
(1) Strengthen the institutional guarantee for the five-level secretary to revitalize the countryside. We will implement the rural work mechanism of overall planning by the central government, overall responsibility by the province, and implementation by cities, counties and townships, formulate detailed rules for the implementation of the five-level secretary’s responsibility for rural revitalization, and strictly supervise and assess. Strengthen the statistical monitoring of rural revitalization. In 2019, the party committees of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) should, in light of local conditions, issue performance appraisal opinions on the promotion of rural revitalization strategy by party and government leading bodies and leading cadres in cities and counties, and strengthen the application of assessment results. All localities and departments should pay close attention to sorting out the hard tasks that must be completed in building a well-off society in an all-round way, strengthen work measures, and ensure the successful completion of various tasks in 2020.
(2) Firmly establish the policy orientation of giving priority to the development of agriculture and rural areas. Party committees and governments at all levels must take the implementation of the requirements of the "four priorities" as the top priority for doing a good job in "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", carry them on their shoulders, grasp them in their hands, link them with performance appraisal, and implement their responsibilities at different levels. Give priority to the allocation of cadres for agriculture, rural areas and farmers, enrich outstanding cadres to the front line of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, enrich elite forces to the grassroots front line, and pay attention to selecting cadres familiar with the work of agriculture, rural areas and farmers to enrich local party and government teams at all levels. Give priority to the allocation of factors for the development of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, resolutely break down the institutional barriers that hinder the free flow and equal exchange of urban and rural factors, change the one-way outflow pattern of rural factors, and promote the flow of resource factors to rural areas. Give priority to the investment in agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and insist on giving priority to agriculture and rural areas as areas of financial security and financial services. Public finance is more inclined to agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and new loans at county level are mainly used to support rural revitalization. Local government bond funds should be allocated to support key areas such as rural human settlements improvement and village infrastructure construction. Give priority to rural public services, promote the unification of urban and rural basic public service standards and the integration of systems, and realize the transformation from formal inclusiveness to substantive fairness. We will improve the top-level design for giving priority to the development of agriculture and rural areas, and promptly study and introduce guiding opinions and specific implementation measures.
(3) Cultivate a "three rural" work team that understands agriculture, loves the countryside and loves farmers. Establish a mechanism for training, equipping, managing and using the cadres working in agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and implement the care and incentive policy. Guide and educate the cadres of agriculture, countryside and farmers to carry out investigation and research, advocate the spirit of seeking truth and being pragmatic, keep close contact with the masses and deepen their feelings for farmers. Resolutely correct formalism and bureaucracy in poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, clean up and standardize all kinds of inspection, appraisal, assessment and supervision matters, effectively solve the problem of grassroots being tired of welcoming evaluation and inspection, and let grassroots cadres concentrate on doing practical things for the masses. Incorporate rural talents into talent training plans at all levels to give key support. Establish a system of overall use of county talents and a system of directional entrusted training of rural talents, and explore various ways to guide all kinds of talents to participate in rural revitalization through moderate separation of posts and posts, on-the-job academic education, and evaluation of innovative professional titles. Commend and reward all kinds of talents who have made outstanding contributions. Implement the project of cultivating new professional farmers. Vigorously develop vocational education for rural needs and strengthen the construction of agriculture-related majors in colleges and universities. Pay close attention to the introduction of policies and opinions on cultivating the "three rural" work team that understands agriculture, loves the countryside and loves farmers.
(4) Give full play to the main role of farmers. Strengthen system construction, policy incentives, education and guidance, mobilize, organize and serve the masses throughout the whole process of rural revitalization, fully respect the wishes of farmers, carry forward the spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle, and stimulate and mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of farmers. Give play to the leading role of government investment, and guide and support village collectives and farmers’ independent organizations to implement or participate in the construction of village infrastructure and the improvement of rural human settlements through the forms of private office assistance, fund-raising and labor-raising, compensation by awards and relief by work. Strengthen the supervision of fund-raising and labor use to prevent increasing the burden on farmers. Introduce simple examination and approval methods for village construction projects, standardize and narrow the scope of application of bidding, and let farmers participate more and benefit from it.
At present, it is of great significance, arduous task and urgent requirement to do a good job in the work concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers. In addition to the above eight aspects, all other work deployed by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council must be done for a long time, implemented vigorously and achieved practical results.
Let’s closely unite around the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, fully implement the important exposition of the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader on doing a good job in agriculture, countryside and farmers, forge ahead, overcome difficulties and do solid work, and make new contributions to building a well-off society in an all-round way and promoting the all-round revitalization of the countryside.
