Deepening Rural Reform Focuses on Five Major Areas

[Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 2] The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council recently issued the document "Comprehensive Implementation Plan for Deepening Rural Reform", which, proceeding from improving the systematic, holistic and coordinated nature of rural reform, focuses on five major areas to further advance the deepening of rural reform. This document was released with authorization by Xinhua News Agency on the 2nd.

The plan points out that comprehensively deepening rural reform involves the economy, politics, culture, society, ecological civilization and grassroots Party building, and involves various forms of ownership entities in rural areas. At present and for a period to come, deepening rural reform must focus on 5 major areas: the rural collective property rights system, the agricultural operation system, the agricultural support and protection system, the institutional mechanisms for integrated urban-rural development, and the rural social governance system.

⟦NL> The plan points out that by 2020, the protection systems for various forms of ownership economy in rural areas, especially the ownership rights of rural collective assets, farmers' land contractual management rights and farmers' property rights, will be further improved; the new agricultural operation system, agricultural support and protection system, agricultural socialized service system, agricultural science and technology innovation system, and rural financial system suited to the characteristics of agriculture and rural areas will be further improved; the institutional mechanisms for integrated urban-rural economic and social development will be basically established; the rural social governance system and rural grassroots organizational system will be further improved; farmers' democratic rights will be better guaranteed; agriculture and rural area laws and regulations will be further improved and strengthened; the level of the rule of law at the rural grassroots level will be further raised; the level of agricultural modernization and farmers' living standards will be further elevated; and rural economic and social development will be more dynamic.