Policy to Integrate Rural Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Industries Expected in Second Half
Stirrings of a Policy to Integrate Rural Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Industries
⊙Reporter Yu Xiangming
A new policy to promote the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries is about to emerge.
The Shanghai Securities News reporter learned from authoritative channels that, as a key task deployed at this year's Central Rural Work Conference, relevant parties will draft guiding opinions on promoting the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries, which are expected to be issued in the second half of the year. At the same time, they will advance the construction of an additional 100 billion jin of grain production capacity and build a batch of high-yield and stable-yield fertile farmland.
According to convention, the Central Economic Work Conference is generally held in late December before the end of the year, so this guiding opinion on promoting the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries is expected to be drafted before the conference.
According to analysis by an authoritative person from the Ministry of Agriculture, the approach to advancing the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries will follow the basic guideline of “based in agriculture, benefiting farmers, and benefiting rural areas,” be oriented by market demand, aim at improving agricultural quality and efficiency and increasing farmers' employment and income, be driven by reform and innovation, take farmers sharing the profits of processing and circulation as the core, and be led by agricultural products processing and leisure agriculture, focusing on promoting the concentration and optimization of factors, promoting the organic integration and coordinated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, extending the industrial chain, upgrading the value chain, broadening the income-increasing chain, optimizing the layout of the productive forces structure, accelerating the establishment of a modern agricultural industrial system, and providing strong support for transforming the development mode of agriculture and boosting “agriculture, rural areas and farmers.”
“Promoting the integration of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries is the fundamental choice for China's agricultural and rural transformation and development under the new normal.”
Liu Mingguo, deputy director of the Agricultural Products Processing Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that promoting the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries is conducive to promoting the fuller and closer integration of modern factors such as management, technology, capital and talent from industry and the service sector into agriculture, and enhancing the level of agricultural development and resource utilization; it is conducive to expanding the scale of rural industries and employment capacity, and expanding space for farmers' employment and income growth; and it is conducive to gathering rural popularity and improving the structure of rural personnel, and promoting rural social prosperity and stability.
According to the introduction, in recent years, although China's agriculture has accelerated its pace of integration with the secondary and tertiary industries, it is still generally at an initial stage. Because the degree of industrial integration is insufficient, there is not only a serious lack of competitiveness in the production link, but also enormous challenges in the processing link. Therefore, China must adapt to the situation and respond to challenges, and urgently needs to promote the integration of agriculture with other industries, enhance competitiveness by leveraging development, and advance the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries.
According to analysis, at the current stage, the integrated development of China's rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries must clarify that the foundation of integration lies in agriculture, and also clarify that the key to integration lies in agricultural products processing and leisure agriculture.
In fact, more and more agricultural products processing enterprises are vigorously building their own raw material bases and market networks, and have long been integrated entities of primary, secondary and tertiary industries.
Data show that China's agricultural products processing industry is huge in scale. In 2014, its main business revenue exceeded 18 trillion yuan, and its total output value was already 2.1 times that of agriculture. It has a huge impact on the rural and even the national industrial economy and has the strength to integrate rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries. Therefore, from this perspective, once the guiding opinions on promoting the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries are ripe, they will form support for the agricultural products processing industry.