How can rural cooperative economic organizations grow bigger and stronger? Chen Xiaohua explains

From December 13 to 14, the “6th (2014) China Cooperative Economy High-Level Forum”, guided and supported by the Department of Rural Economic System and Management of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Cooperative Guidance Department of the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, and hosted by the China Cooperative Economy Society, was held at the Beijing Conference Center. It is understood that the theme of this forum was cooperative economic organizations and modern agriculture.

Chen Xiaohua, Vice Minister of Agriculture, attended the opening ceremony and pointed out that in response to the many new situations and new problems that have emerged in the current development of China's farmers' professional cooperatives, key research is needed in the following areas: first, earnestly summarize the experiences and lessons of the development of China's rural cooperative economy to better grasp the direction of development; second, adapt to the new situation of cooperative economic development and constantly innovate organizational forms and operating mechanisms; third, actively promote reform in key areas to make rural cooperative economic organizations bigger and stronger; fourth, strengthen the standardized development of farmers' cooperatives to enhance their own vitality for development; fifth, strengthen theoretical research on the cooperative economy and do not copy foreign models and practices mechanically.

During the forum, relevant experts and scholars delivered keynote speeches on “Modern Agricultural Development and Institutional and Mechanism Innovation”, “New Changes in Agricultural and Rural Policies Since the 18th National Congress”, and “Standardized Development and Sustainable Development of Farmers' Cooperatives”. The forum also invited relevant authoritative experts, entrepreneurs and representatives of outstanding farmers' cooperatives to conduct extensive exchanges and discussions on the current development situation of cooperatives and cooperative finance, support policies, and other topics around “Cooperative Production and Marketing Docking and Brand Building”, “Cooperatives and Cooperative Finance”, and “Cooperative Support Policies and Informatization Services”, and also conducted interactive exchanges with participating representatives on issues such as “rural land transfer”, “farmers' cooperative unions”, “supply and marketing cooperatives and farmers' cooperatives”, “farmers' cooperatives carrying out credit cooperation” and “cooperatives and agricultural product circulation”.