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New breakthrough in defending high-level grain production; transforming the mode and adjusting the structure become this year's main theme
Written on the occasion of the 2015 grain output hitting a new record. It was late rice harvest season in Xiaokeng Valley, Huangjia Village, Qidu Township, Yongfeng County, Jiangxi Province, where two harvesters shuttled back and forth, golden waves of rice falling and being drawn in, and plump grains filling the granary. One can imagine that this would again
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Beijing community distributes free vegetables, hundreds line up to receive them
Yesterday morning, the Min'an Community of Beixinqiao Subdistrict joined hands with volunteers from the caring enterprise e+ Cai Daojia to carry out a winter warmth-giving free organic vegetable giveaway. Every resident aged 60 and above could receive a packed one jin of fresh vegetables, attracting hundreds of people to line up. At the
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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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Crop cultivation must adhere to the conditions; one must not pull up seedlings to help them grow.
The pilot program for mortgage loans on the "two rights" has drawn attention from both urban and rural society, and all localities have a strong desire for reform. However, the complex legal issues and potential risk pressures of rural land system reform determine the strict conditions for selecting pilot areas. It is unworkable to "create conditions even when there are none." According to the guidance
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How can major grain-producing counties become prosperous? More than a hundred of them are still nationally designated poverty-stricken counties
A research report by the China Well-off Society Construction Research Association states that among China's 800 major grain-producing counties, which account for nearly three-quarters of the national total grain output, more than a hundred are nationally designated poverty-stricken counties, with a poor population of 36 million. The phenomenon of "grain-finance inversion" between grain output and county-level fiscal capacity is very obvious
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The three accounts of farmers who move to the city must be reckoned well for them
Exploring the reform pilot for paid withdrawal from contracted land is a realistic path for advancing appropriately scaled agricultural operations based on national conditions, and an important part of promoting the urbanization of people. To ensure this historical process advances smoothly, the key remains how to safeguard the rights and interests of farmers who leave farming and move to the city
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The soaring cost of traditional Chinese medicinal materials is about to make them a noble medicine
On July 14, 2015, the official website of the Ministry of Commerce published the "Public Bidding Announcement of the Market Order Department of the Ministry of Commerce for the 2015 Annual Project for Business Management and Maintenance of the Online Information System for the Circulation of Medicines and Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials." Traditional Chinese medicine is the quintessence of China, and to promote and safeguard people's health, for the
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What should be done about farmers' affairs? Let farmers discuss and decide for themselves
According to reports, relevant departments in Mengcun County, Hebei, found that during the turnover of some village "two committees" in the county, some cadres who were usually willing to work failed to be reelected. An important reason was that these cadres liked to make decisions on their own when handling matters, so much so that some farmers said: I want cucumbers but you insist on giving me watermelons, why should I support you?
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Challenges Facing the New Model of Rural Governance and Ways to Overcome Them
With the rapid advancement of industrialization and urbanization and the continuous deepening of rural reform, new types of rural communities have emerged in China's rural areas under "village consolidation and resettlement" and "centralized residence" of farmers, along with "hollow villages" caused by the migration of rural labor to cities and towns, and "super villages" that are villages in name but towns in reality,
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Building a New Agricultural Governance System Requires Grasping the Theme and Main Actors of Agricultural Development
Grasping the Theme, Main Actors, Methods and Direction of Agricultural Development As new types of agricultural operating entities continue to emerge and the transformation of agricultural development methods advances in depth, China's agricultural and rural development is showing many new changes and new characteristics. This requires all localities to further improve their capacity to promote agricultural development
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