Industrial development cannot be pursued as a Great Leap Forward; it must be advanced steadily and surely.

Recently there has been an unhealthy tendency: quite a few people, in developing agricultural industries, seek quick success and instant benefits, are impatient and rash, and like to launch a "Great Leap Forward." The specific manifestations are: some farmers, in order to get rich early and quickly, blindly introduce and implement short, flat, and fast money-making projects and blindly expand the scale of production and operation; some private business owners who previously worked in non-agricultural industries, although they have turned to agriculture, still remain stuck in the past in their business philosophy and methods, blindly expanding rapidly; some grassroots cadres, in order to produce political achievements early and produce big political achievements, often use policy incentives, benefit inducements, issuing quotas, setting tasks, and pressing progress to forcefully push a certain industry to develop rapidly. Although the above wishes are good, the results often go contrary to expectations.

Rome was not built in a day. In developing agricultural industries, one cannot expect to succeed overnight. Compared with other industries, agriculture has its own special aspects. First, it is highly regional; successful experience from other places can only be used as a reference locally and cannot be "copied." Second, there are many unforeseeable risks; in addition to hard-to-estimate market risks, there are also many natural risks that are difficult to control. Third, the quality of many production and operation entities is still very low at present, and raising farmers' quality is also a very long process. Therefore, in engaging in agriculture there is a basic principle that must be upheld: any new variety or new technology must undergo experiments and demonstrations before it can be steadily promoted. Developing agricultural industries likewise requires first experimenting, then demonstrating, and only afterward promoting; it requires down-to-earth accumulation of experience, improvement of technology, cultivation of talent, enhancement of quality, and accumulation of strength, advancing solidly and steadily step by step with perseverance. Only in this way can various risks be reduced as much as possible and major mistakes and losses be avoided. If one violates the objective laws of agricultural development, is unwilling to spend time doing solid basic work, and merely gets hot-headed and greedily rushes forward, always wanting to "pull up seedlings to help them grow" and pursue "leapfrog" development, it is very easy to enter the mistaken zone of blind action and then face an irreversible situation.