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How to Actively and Steadily Advance the Reform of the Rural Collective Property Rights System
The reform of the rural collective property rights system is a major enrichment and improvement of rural production relations. Rural collective property rights are rich in connotation and constitute complete property rights including ownership, usufructuary rights and security interests. The reform of the rural collective property rights system should be based on establishing a
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Five major factors determine the direction of chemical fertilizer market reform
Recently, voices calling for delaying the market-oriented reform of chemical fertilizers have emerged again in the industry, on the grounds that chemical fertilizer prices have fallen sharply and many chemical fertilizer enterprises are now struggling to operate; if preferential policies are abolished, some enterprises will find survival even harder, and some may even go bankrupt. Chemical fertilizer market
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Striving to cut grain loss rate by 40% in the next 5 years, the National Development and Reform Commission sets a clear target
A relevant official of the National Development and Reform Commission said today that by 2020, China will strive to reduce losses and waste in the post-production grain circulation stage by more than 13 million tons per year, cut the loss and waste rate by more than 40%, make grain consumption more scientific and reasonable, and form a long-term mechanism for the whole society to save grain
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The reform of the three agricultural subsidies will be rolled out nationwide by the Ministry of Finance in 2016
According to a message on the Ministry of Finance website, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture recently issued the "Guiding Opinions on Adjusting and Improving the Three Agricultural Subsidy Policies" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guiding Opinions"). Officials from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture revealed that in 2016, the reform of the three agricultural subsidies
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The Sanyuan Zhu Village experiment in Shandong: supply-side reform in vegetables
[Lead-in, China Vegetable Network] The structural reform of the agricultural supply side has recently become a buzzword, but it seems hard to connect it with a small village that grows cucumbers. Yet when reporters recently came to Sanyuan Zhu Village in Shandong, the birthplace of China's winter-warm vegetable greenhouses, they unexpectedly found that
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Comprehensive Implementation Plan for Deepening Rural Reform Issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 2 dispatch Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Comprehensive Implementation Plan for Deepening Rural Reform" and issued a notice requiring all regions and departments to conscientiously implement it in light of actual conditions. "Comprehensive Deepening of Rural Reform
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Agricultural product price reform requires reforming subsidy policies to boost competitiveness through high efficiency
The "Several Opinions on Advancing Price Mechanism Reform" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") proposes to improve the price formation mechanism for agricultural products, with agricultural product prices mainly determined by the market. The "Opinions" make clear that China will adjust and improve "amber box" (under the Agreement on Agriculture, policies that distort production and trade are called "amber box" policies) support policies, gradually expand the scale and scope of "green box" support policies, continue to implement and improve the minimum purchase price policy for rice and wheat, reform and improve the corn purchase and storage system, continue to implement the pilot reform of target prices for cotton and soybeans, and improve the methods for distributing subsidies.<br /> <br /> For many years, the agricultural sector has been exploring agricultural support policies that do not distort the market and are more efficient, with more "green box" and less "amber box." An official from the Ministry of Agriculture told a reporter from the Daily Economic News, "What is being carried out now is the target price pilot for soybeans and cotton, which also represents the direction of reform for most agricultural products in the future, including grain varieties. The current agricultural subsidy measures are relatively inefficient and in fact have caused a certain degree of market distortion, the so-called 'foreign goods' entering the market and 'domestic goods' entering warehouses."<br /> <br /> <strong> The juncture for shifting from "amber box" to "green box" has arrived</strong><br /> <br /> According to the commitments China made when joining the WTO, agricultural subsidies cannot exceed 8.5% of agricultural output value, and as agricultural production costs gradually rise, the current agricultural subsidy policy is approaching the "amber box" ceiling.<br /> <br /> At present, the prices of the vast majority of China's agricultural products are already formed by market supply and demand, while the measures through which the government truly intervenes in prices mainly include the minimum purchase price policy implemented respectively for rice and wheat, the two key staple grain varieties, in the main producing areas starting in 2004 and 2006, as well as the temporary purchase and storage of bulk agricultural products such as corn, rapeseed, and cotton since 2008.<br /> <br /> Supported by market-support purchase prices and temporary storage prices that have risen almost year by year, domestic agricultural product prices have become "inverted" relative to international prices. At present, international soybean, corn, and wheat prices are 1,175 yuan, 923 yuan, and 626 yuan per ton lower than domestic prices, respectively. "When China joined the WTO, it promised that agricultural subsidies could not exceed 8.5% of agricultural output value. This is a restriction on government subsidies that distort production and trade, and now subsidies for some of our products have already crossed that limit." Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, said recently that as the squeezing effect of the rising "floor" of domestic grain production costs becomes more and more obvious, part of the "amber box" subsidies must now be shifted to the "green box."<br /> <br /> Strengthen monitoring of agricultural product prices<br /> <br /> "Although the intensity of protection for agricultural products has not diminished, countries such as those in Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea have shown a trend of reducing the intensity of agricultural subsidy support, paying more attention to enhancing their own agricultural industry competitiveness." Zhang Hongyu, director of the Department of Rural Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Daily Economic News, "China must also focus on considering the 'transformation of methods and adjustment of structure' of agriculture from the perspective of improving agriculture's capacity for sustainable development, and take an intensive modern agricultural development path featuring an efficient agricultural industry, safe products, resource conservation, and environmental friendliness."<br /> <br /> According to the "Opinions," China will also strengthen the investigation of agricultural product costs and price monitoring, accelerate the establishment of a global agricultural data investigation and analysis system, and provide important support for the government in formulating policies on agricultural product prices and agricultural subsidies. "Agricultural product cost survey data are an effective basis for scientifically formulating a series of policies benefiting farmers, and under the current situation of continuously rising agricultural production costs, they are especially important." A person engaged in local statistical work told the reporter, "It is necessary to understand local farmers' planting and breeding habits and grasp information such as farmers' preferences in using chemical fertilizers and pesticides, land transfer prices, and the marketing costs of agricultural products." "Considering it along the lines of Internet Plus, if big data on agricultural product production costs, market price fluctuations, international price references, and even comparisons of foreign agricultural product costs can be formed, it will have a profound impact on China's agricultural development." Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that "this can not only help solve the prominent problems existing in China's agriculture, but can also bring broad application prospects in areas such as agricultural socialized services and agricultural science and technology."
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A new round of rural reform sees three arrows released at once, with three major measures advanced in tandem
For hundreds of millions of farmers, 2015 will be an extraordinary year. From deepening the reform of the rural land system, with a focus on land transfer and the registration and certification of rights, to expanding the pilot rural reform test zones, and then to reforming the rural circulation system with the reform of supply and marketing cooperatives at its core
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Rural Land Reform Lifts Farmers' Dream of Prosperity
Contiguous plantings of sugar oranges, fruit and vegetable greenhouses standing in neat rows, organic rice forming a "green dam"... In Xiangzhou County, Guangxi, a national pilot county for rural land verification and registration, along with the rollout of reform work such as land verification, rural land transfer and large-scale operation have clearly accelerated. Some farmers have
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Ten Years After Village Mergers: Another Look at Rural Change
After the tax and fee reform, because village-level income was greatly affected, the government promptly launched the work of merging villages and combining groups, meaning that by reducing the number of village cadres it could cut expenditures and maintain the normal operation of village-level organizations. In fact, as the state in the following years increased input into rural areas,
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