The 13th Five-Year Plan recommendations were recently released. What will they bring to farmers?

Editor's note: Recently, the "Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 13th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" was released. The “13th Five-Year” Plan is the last five-year plan for achieving the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and is of decisive significance for smoothly achieving the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. So what benefits will these planning recommendations bring to farmers? This section sorts them out for you.

Life

“Wallets” are expected to be fuller

By 2020, the per capita income of urban and rural residents will be double that of 2010.

Increase residents' property income through multiple channels. Implement policies conducive to narrowing the income gap, noticeably increase the income of low-income workers, and expand the proportion of middle-income earners.

Improve the treatment of skilled workers, improve the professional title evaluation system, and promote the practice of linking professional and technical titles and skill levels to settlement in large cities.

The comprehensive “two-child” policy will be relaxed, fully implementing the policy that a couple can have two children.

Improve public service levels for reproductive health, maternal and child health care, and childcare. Pay attention to family development.

Poverty alleviation

Poor people are expected to receive guaranteed support to the fullest extent

Implement targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty elimination, adopt policies suited to different people and places, and improve the effectiveness of poverty alleviation.

Support poor households by category: for those with the ability to work, support the development of distinctive industries and transfer employment; for those in areas where “one place cannot support its own people,” implement poverty alleviation relocation; for areas of particularly important and fragile ecology, implement ecological protection poverty alleviation; for those who have lost the ability to work, implement bottom-line guarantee policies; and for those impoverished by illness, provide medical assistance guarantees.

Link the minimum living guarantee policy with poverty alleviation policies, and ensure that poor people receive guaranteed support to the fullest extent.

Equalization of infrastructure and public services

Expand infrastructure coverage in poor areas, and solve problems such as access to roads, water, electricity, and networks according to local conditions.

For the occupation of collective land for the development of hydropower and mineral resources in poor areas, pilot compensation to original residents in the form of collective equity, and explore an asset-income support system for poor people.

Improve the quality of basic education and the level of medical services in poor areas, and promote the equalization of basic public services in poor areas. Establish and improve a care service system for left-behind children, women, and the elderly in rural areas.

Urban-rural coordination

The agricultural transferred population entering cities will enjoy the same rights as urban residents

Promote people-centered new urbanization. Deepen reform of the household registration system, promote the settlement of agricultural transferred population who are capable of stable employment and life in cities and towns together with their families, and give them the same rights and obligations as urban residents. Implement the residence permit system, and strive to achieve full coverage of basic public services for the permanent resident population.

Protect the rights and interests of farmers who settle in cities, including land rights

Protect the land contracting rights, homestead use rights, and collective income distribution rights of farmers who settle in cities, and support and guide them in transferring the above rights and interests voluntarily and with compensation in accordance with the law.

Urban and rural resource allocation will be more balanced

Promote balanced allocation of urban and rural public resources, improve the long-term mechanism for investment in rural infrastructure, focus the development of social undertakings on rural areas and towns that absorb a larger agricultural transferred population, and promote the extension of urban public services to rural areas.

Education

Secondary vocational education will gradually become free

Universalize senior secondary education, gradually and by category advance the exemption of tuition and miscellaneous fees for secondary vocational education, and take the lead in exempting ordinary senior secondary school tuition and miscellaneous fees for students from registered poor families. Develop preschool education and encourage the development of inclusive kindergartens.

The rural teacher workforce is expected to be strengthened

Promote educational fairness. Accelerate the standardized construction of public schools for urban and rural compulsory education, strengthen the teaching workforce, especially the rural teacher workforce, and promote exchanges between urban and rural teachers. Run special education well.

Medical care

Fully implement the serious illness insurance system for urban and rural residents

Carry out linkage among medical services, medical insurance, and pharmaceuticals, advance the separation of medical care and pharmaceuticals, implement tiered diagnosis and treatment, and establish a basic medical and health system and a modern hospital management system covering both urban and rural areas. Encourage social forces to establish health service industries, and promote equal treatment for non-profit private hospitals and public hospitals.

Fully implement the serious illness insurance system for urban and rural residents. Reform medical insurance payment methods and give play to the role of medical insurance in controlling costs.

Land

Guard the cultivated land “red line” and ensure food security

Adhere to the strictest cultivated land protection system, firmly guard the cultivated land red line, implement the strategy of storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology, improve grain production capacity, and ensure basic self-sufficiency in grains and absolute security of staple food.

Deepen land system reform

Stabilize rural land contracting relations, improve the method of separating land ownership rights, contracting rights, and management rights, promote the orderly transfer of land management rights in accordance with the law, and build a policy system for cultivating new agricultural business entities. Train new-type professional farmers. Deepen rural land system reform.

New countryside

Improve the level of new countryside construction

Improve the level of socialist new countryside construction, carry out actions to improve rural living environments, increase protection of traditional village dwellings and historically and culturally famous villages and towns, and build beautiful and livable villages.

Increase efforts to prevent and control agricultural non-point source pollution

Adhere to placing equal emphasis on urban and rural environmental governance, increase efforts to prevent and control agricultural non-point source pollution, coordinate rural drinking water safety, water and toilet improvement, and garbage treatment, and promote resource utilization and harmless disposal of waste from crop farming and livestock breeding.