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Li Keqiang Strongly Promotes Rural E-commerce, Seizing the Key to Boosting Consumption
At a time when the positive trend in consumption growth is not yet solid and downward pressure on the economy remains undiminished, the Chinese government has decided to accelerate the development of rural e-commerce in order to boost consumption growth. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang chaired an executive meeting of the State Council on the 14th, calling for accelerated development of rural
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The citizenization of farmers must be advanced steadily; never try to help the seedlings grow by pulling them up.
To advance the building of a new type of urbanization, the central government proposed further advancing reform of the household registration system and advancing in an orderly manner the citizenization of the agricultural population that has moved to cities. However, in recent years the author found in Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei that although farmers yearn for urban life, most of them do not have a strong willingness to completely "leave farming," and many hover in an amphibious state of "both city and countryside, both worker and farmer." All localities should take account of actual conditions, carefully analyze the obstacles to farmer citizenization, respect farmers' wishes, avoid pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and refrain from forcibly pushing it forward by administrative means. The reason "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion is difficult to make attractive to many farmers lies in the following: <p><P> To advance the building of a new type of urbanization, the central government proposed further advancing reform of the household registration system and advancing in an orderly manner the citizenization of the agricultural population that has moved to cities. However, in recent years the author found in Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei that although farmers yearn for urban life, most of them do not have a strong willingness to completely "leave farming," and many hover in an amphibious state of "both city and countryside, both worker and farmer." All localities should take account of actual conditions, carefully analyze the obstacles to farmer citizenization, respect farmers' wishes, avoid pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and refrain from forcibly pushing it forward by administrative means. The reason "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion is difficult to make attractive to many farmers lies in the following:</P><P> First, there are many worries about the future: the elasticity of urban-rural amphibiousness is great. The vast majority of migrant workers who enter cities lack technology and skills, cannot compete for good jobs, earn little throughout the year, feel uncertain about life in the city, and fear that after being laid off they will return to the countryside with no land to farm. Farmers worry most that after "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion they will lose contracted land and homestead land. Many young and middle-aged people choose urban-rural amphibiousness, retreating to the countryside when going out is difficult and going out to seek opportunities whenever possible. Farmers say that although farming does not bring much income, at least there is food to eat and a house to live in, which is at least a form of security. The city may be good, but without a job one cannot live there.</P><P> Second, real pressure is great: the threshold for settling down in the city is high. In 2014, the average monthly income of migrant workers in the cities and counties of Xiangyang was about 2,000 yuan, and those with monthly wage income exceeding 3,000 yuan accounted for about 15 percent, while in the same period the average sales price of commercial housing in the cities and counties was 3,800 yuan per sq m. Commercial housing prices continued to rise, urban village redevelopment led to a reduction in rental housing supply, and rental housing rents also rose by 20% to 30%. Migrant workers find it difficult to rely on wage income to support a family in the city, pay for their children's schooling, let alone buy a house. A 26-year-old young man surnamed Huang from Wuzhen in Nanzhang County knows how to install water and electricity, so finding work is not difficult, but he can save only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year. At this income level, even if he neither ate nor drank, buying an apartment would take one or two decades. Among the several young migrant workers the author surveyed, when buying a house in the city was mentioned, their first reaction was "I wouldn't even dare to think about it." But they have eager expectations about buying a house; in their view, without a house they cannot put down roots in the city. Most of the new generation of migrant workers have a certain amount of education and skills. Unlike their parents' generation, they have a stronger willingness to stay in the city and more employment choices, but buying a house is often a high threshold they cannot cross.</P><P> Third, the imprint of previous experience is deep: "washing one's feet" and entering the city is full of setbacks. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, the policy of "selling household registration" was implemented successively in the cities and counties of Xiangyang. A farmer could convert from agricultural to non-agricultural status by spending 5,000 to 10,000 yuan, and those of working age could even be recruited into factories, which led many people to empty their family savings or even borrow money everywhere to "buy household registration." But within a few years, many people were laid off and unemployed before they had earned back the money they spent on buying household registration, and had no choice but to take a "non-agricultural household registration" paper back to the countryside to farm or go out to work. This situation is still fresh in many farmers' memories. Many farmers say, we have contracted land and self-built houses, and can also enjoy the new rural cooperative medical care and the new social security. Now rural water and electricity supply is normal, transportation conditions have improved, housing standards have risen, the living environment is good, and with more and more national beneficial policies for farmers, rural household registration is also very "precious."</P><P> Farmer citizenization involves too many issues and cannot be achieved overnight. Its implementation requires a fairly long process; haste makes waste. Before farmers can obtain a higher level of employment and social security, the process of farmer citizenization cannot be fast. This requires the government to do careful and meticulous work in theoretical argumentation, planning guidance, institutional improvement, and public opinion guidance, and even more requires the government to gradually eliminate farmers' distant worries and immediate anxieties in the process of farmer citizenization, so that farmer citizenization comes about naturally, and it must never transcend reality by using administrative force to pull up seedlings to help them grow.</P></p>
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Policy for integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas is in the pipeline
A new policy to promote the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas is about to be unveiled. The reporter learned from authoritative sources that, as a key task deployed at this year's Central Rural Work Conference, the relevant authorities will draft guiding opinions on promoting the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas, which are expected to be
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Agricultural product processing cooperatives upgrade their development level, with the Ministry of Agriculture working hard to promote it
From September 21-25, the national training course for demonstration units of farmer cooperatives in processing was held in Beijing, working through policy support, public services, demonstration creation and other means to upgrade the development level of agricultural product processing cooperatives. It is introduced that farmer cooperatives developing agricultural product processing and distribution
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How can agricultural development advance toward the mid-to-high end?
Currently, China's economic development has entered a new normal, and the agricultural sector has also seen some new stage-specific features and trend-based changes, ushering in a new period of strategic opportunity for accelerating agricultural modernization. To adapt to the needs of economic and social development and the inherent requirements of modern agricultural development, we must gain a deeper
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Leisure Agriculture Development Receives Policy Support: Ministry of Agriculture Issues Document Encouraging PPP Model
China Securities Network news, September 18, learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "Notice on Actively Developing the Multiple Functions of Agriculture and Vigorously Promoting the Development of Leisure Agriculture," aimed at developing the multiple functions of agriculture, vigorously promoting the development of leisure agriculture, and striving to advance the integration of the primary, secondary and tertiary
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Li Yining proposes promoting the reform of the agricultural reclamation system from two levels
Using 4.5% of the nation's arable land area, it produces more than 7% of commercial grain; the agricultural reclamation economy has maintained a growth rate of more than 12% for 10 consecutive years; three major reclamation areas already have annual total operating revenue exceeding 100 billion yuan. At the forefront of China's modern agriculture, how can China's agricultural reclamation, through deepening reform
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Promote intensive seedling cultivation techniques, strengthen green prevention and control of pests and diseases
Currently, various regions across China have successively entered the autumn-winter vegetable production stage, which is one of the most important crop seasons in China's vegetable production and is of great significance for ensuring market supply in autumn, winter and spring and for stabilizing and increasing the income of vegetable farmers. To strengthen autumn-winter vegetable production management, the Ministry of Agriculture recently
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Win the battle against agricultural non-point source pollution and advance sustainable agricultural development
At present, China's agricultural and rural economic development has entered its best historical period, with grain production achieving eleven consecutive years of increases, remaining stable above 1200 billion jin for two consecutive years. While tremendous achievements have been made, tremendous costs have also been paid, the string of resource utilization is being pulled tighter and tighter,
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Adjusting the Agricultural Structure, Promoting Development Through Transformation
The 2015 No. 1 document proposed deepening the adjustment of the agricultural structure, carrying out pilot projects for converting grain to feed and for integrated planting and breeding models, and promoting the coordinated development of the three-part planting structure of grain, cash crops and forage. The just-issued "Opinions" once again clearly set out agricultural structure adjustment
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