New progress in rural reform, promoting new rural development
This website news 2014 was vividly called the “year of reform”. Over the past year, departments at all levels of the Ministry of Agriculture concentrated their efforts on deepening rural reform, and rural reform made new progress.
Innovating the promotion mechanism for rural reform. First, a study was conducted and an opinion was formulated on the Ministry of Agriculture's implementation of the central government's departmental division of labor plan for deepening reform, and responsible units were clarified for the 48 reform tasks for which it was responsible. Second, the Ministry of Agriculture's leading group for deepening rural reform was established to coordinate intra-ministerial coordination and extra-ministerial liaison for reform work. Third, the key points of the Ministry of Agriculture's 2014 reform work were drafted. Fourth, a Medium- and Long-Term Reform Implementation Plan for reform measures undertaking the first lead task was studied, formulated, and submitted.
Building a high-level platform for rural reform. On November 20, 2014, the Ministry of Agriculture, together with relevant departments, jointly approved 34 counties (cities, districts) including Tongzhou District of Beijing as the second batch of national rural reform pilot areas, and together with 9 first-batch pilot areas including Yutian County of Hebei Province, they respectively undertook 14 newly added reform pilot and experimental tasks. As of now, the number of rural reform pilot areas has reached 58, covering 28 provinces (regions, municipalities) across the country, and a relatively complete rural reform experimental work system has basically taken shape.
⟦NL> Strengthening the legal guarantee for rural reform. Before the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee was convened, the Ministry of Agriculture drafted the party group's opinions on the session's topics and the draft of the Decision for soliciting opinions, and suggestions such as strengthening agricultural legislation and environmental and resource legislation were adopted by the central government. After the plenary session was convened, an opinion on implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and deeply advancing agricultural rule of law construction was also drafted. At the same time, it actively promoted the improvement of laws and regulations in important fields, and cooperated with relevant departments to accelerate the formulation and revision of more than 10 agricultural laws and regulations. In light of the situation of rural reform, the Ministry of Agriculture's 2015-2020 legislative plan was drafted.
Increasing policy support for rural reform. In order to advance rural reform, the Ministry of Agriculture strengthened investigation and research to serve reform decision-making. Over the past year, a total of 18 major research topics were arranged, 14 special investigations were carried out, and relying on the agricultural soft science research platform, more than 50 research topics were commissioned to social forces, forming multiple research reports on aspects such as farmers' income growth, the new urban-rural scissors gap, target price pilots, agricultural subsidies, and farmland protection, which were submitted to State Council leaders for reference, providing important reference for agricultural reform decision-making and effectively playing the role of serving reform decision-making.