How do rural reform pilot areas boldly serve as pathfinding pioneers?

Since 2011, under the leadership of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, the joint conference on rural reform pilot area work has designated 58 rural reform pilot areas in two batches, carrying out pilot exploration around the major rural reform tasks deployed by the central government. Over the past 4 years, all localities have focused on the themes of reform experimentation, been brave in innovation, and made bold explorations, achieving a number of good results and good experiences.

Build a new type of agricultural operation system and strengthen the foundation for the development of agricultural modernization. Explore methods for the withdrawal and storage of land contractual management rights, and standardize land transfer management services; give play to the roles of the government and the market, and cultivate and support new types of agricultural operation entities; improve service organizations, innovate service models, and raise the level of agricultural socialized services; create or make flexible use of policies to strengthen agricultural support and protection. Explore the establishment of a modern rural financial system to solve the financing difficulties of agricultural development. Focus on the difficult points of rural financial reform, and explore the establishment of a rural financial service system extending to villages; broaden the scope of effective collateral, establish a farmer credit system, innovate mutual-aid financing guarantee mechanisms, and innovate rural financial products; broaden the coverage of agriculture-related insurance to meet farmers' diverse insurance needs. Improve institutions and mechanisms, and promote the integration of urban and rural development. Build a planning system and management system that integrates urban and rural areas and merges multiple plans, clarify urban and rural functional positioning, and optimize urban and rural layout; establish institutions and mechanisms that promote the flow of urban public resources to rural areas and the extension of basic public services to rural areas, promote the connection and integration of urban and rural basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance, and promote the integration of urban and rural social undertakings; establish a unified urban and rural household registration and permanent residence management system, promote the local citizenization of farmers, and implement the citizen treatment of migrant populations. Deepen the reform of the rural collective property rights system to lay the foundation for the equal exchange of urban and rural factors. Explore methods for defining collective organization members and for clearing and verifying collective assets, and clarify the ownership of property rights; promote the reform of quantifying collective assets into shares, and improve the various powers and functions of rural collective assets; innovate the rural property rights transfer and transaction system, and activate the potential of various rural production factors. Improve rural governance mechanisms and enhance rural social governance capacity. Innovate the management system and strengthen the organizational guarantee for rural social management services; innovate the mechanism for selecting and evaluating cadres, and stimulate the consciousness and sense of urgency of grassroots cadres in their work; innovate mechanisms for expressing public opinion and democratic decision-making, and enrich the connotation of villagers' self-governance; explore methods such as fiscal support and the downward placement of civil servants to strengthen the capacity building of grassroots organizations.

Next, rural reform pilot areas will, in accordance with the central government's major deployment for comprehensively deepening rural reform, closely combine with the development concepts of "innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing" put forward in the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, continuously deepen the reform of the agricultural operation system and mechanism, and serve the transformation of agricultural development methods and structural adjustment; continuously explore and improve the agricultural support and protection system, and actively respond to the new normal of economic development; continuously innovate and improve the rural social governance system, and maintain rural harmony and stability; continuously deepen the reform of the rural collective property rights system, and give farmers more property rights; continuously improve the institutions and mechanisms for urban-rural integration, and let more farmers, especially poor farmers, share the fruits of reform.