Effective supply of agricultural products and increasing farmers' incomes are the Ministry of Agriculture's priorities for next year
On the morning of December 22, the Ministry of Agriculture convened a meeting of the Party Leadership Group to relay and study the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and the Central Urban Work Conference, to intensively study the important speeches of General Secretary Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, and to study opinions on implementation.
Han Changfu, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, stressed that Party organizations at all levels and the broad ranks of Party members and cadres in the Ministry of Agriculture must quickly unify their thinking and actions with the Central Committee's analysis and judgment of the domestic and international economic situation, with the Central Committee's decisions and arrangements for next year's economic work and urban work, and with the requirements for striving to advance structural reform, earnestly enhance their sense of responsibility and urgency in their work, firm up their confidence, work solidly, and go all out to advance all aspects of agricultural and rural reform and development, providing strong support for the “13th Five-Year Plan” to get off to a good start and a good beginning.
The meeting pointed out that this Central Economic Work Conference was a very important meeting held as the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects entered the decisive stage. The important speeches of General Secretary Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang were realistic in summarizing the work, thorough in analyzing the situation, and the goals and tasks they put forward conform to social expectations, with specific and forceful policy measures; in particular, they focused on and elaborated arrangements for structural reform, possessing strong theoretical depth, strategic significance, pertinence and operability. It is necessary to study earnestly and understand deeply, accurately grasp the Central Committee's overall assessment of this year's and the “12th Five-Year Plan” economic work, accurately grasp the Central Committee's scientific judgment of next year's domestic and international economic situation, accurately grasp the Central Committee's decisions and arrangements for next year's economic work, deepen understanding of the “three-phase superposition” and the new normal of economic development, accurately grasp the Central Committee's overall requirements for urban work in the new period, and truly unify thinking and action with the major judgments and deployment requirements of the Party Central Committee.
The meeting stressed the need to deeply understand the Central Committee's deployment requirements for “three rural” work and to scientifically plan the key tasks of next year's agricultural and rural economic development. Agricultural departments at all levels must, in accordance with the Central Committee's requirements for striving to strengthen supply-side structural reform, speed up the building of modern agriculture, strive to resolve the deep-seated problems constraining agricultural and rural economic development, and strive to achieve a good start for the “13th Five-Year Plan”. It is necessary to stabilize agriculture, safeguard the effective supply of agricultural products, safeguard the security of staple grain rations, safeguard the steady growth of farmers' incomes, and create a favorable environment for advancing structural reform. It is necessary to focus on studying and advancing supply-side structural reform in agriculture, place agricultural structural adjustment in a prominent and important position, steadily advance the structural adjustment of crop farming, animal husbandry and fisheries, and improve agricultural quality, efficiency and competitiveness.
⟦NL> The meeting required that overall coordination be combined with highlighting key points, that the study and implementation of the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and the Central Urban Work Conference and all current work be carried out well, and that this year be brought to a good close and next year get off to a good start. It is necessary to quickly relay and study the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and the Central Urban Work Conference, further clarify the work thinking for next year, and plan the key tasks and measures well. It is necessary to coordinate all work at the end of the year and the beginning of the next, do a good job in agricultural production this winter and next spring, strengthen winter field management of crops in the fields, ensure the production, supply and marketing linkage of “vegetable basket” products, and safeguard the effective supply of agricultural products on the market during the “two festivals”. Continue to intensify supervision of the quality and safety of agricultural products, strengthen the prevention and control of major animal diseases in winter and spring, plan early for spring plowing and spring planting preparations, and lay a good foundation for the steady development of the agricultural and rural economy next year. Solidly carry out “three strictnesses and three solidnesses” education. It is necessary to earnestly prepare for and convene the National Agricultural Work Conference well, and make comprehensive arrangements for the national agricultural system to implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and the Central Urban Work Conference and to do a good job in next year's and the “13th Five-Year Plan” agricultural and rural economic work.