Modern agriculture with Chinese characteristics will usher in major development
From November 24 to 28, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the country, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, came to Qingdao, Linyi, Jining, Heze, Jinan and other places, going deep into old revolutionary base areas, enterprises, scientific research institutes, cultural institutions, etc., to inspect economic and social development and promote the study and implementation of the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. It is understood that doing a good job in the "three rural" work around implementing the spirit of the plenary session was an important part of Xi Jinping's research.
Xi Jinping pointed out that to solve the "three rural" issues, the fundamental point lies in deepening reform and taking the road of modern agriculture with Chinese characteristics. At present, the focus should be on accelerating the construction of a new agricultural management system guided by solving the problem of how land is farmed; taking the resource and environmental constraints of scarce land and water as the guide, deeply advancing the transformation of the agricultural development mode; and taking eating well and eating safely as the guide, vigorously developing high-quality and safe agricultural products (000061, stock bar).
The development of the three rural areas ushers in important opportunities
On the afternoon of November 27, Xi Jinping came to the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, inspected the intelligent greenhouse and the Shandong comprehensive rural agricultural informatization service platform, and learned about relying on scientific and technological innovation to promote agricultural development and increase farmers' income. He then held a symposium and listened to opinions and suggestions on the "three rural" work from relevant personnel from agricultural research institutions, agricultural administrative departments, and grassroots cadres.
Xi Jinping pointed out that ensuring food security is an eternal topic and must not be relaxed at any time.
In fact, the three rural issues had always been a hot topic of attention before and after the convening of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. The communique of the Third Plenary Session pointed out that it is necessary to accelerate the construction of a new agricultural management system, grant farmers more property rights, promote equal exchange of urban and rural factors and balanced allocation of public resources, and improve the system for the healthy development of urbanization.
Xi Jinping emphasized that agriculture must be given the wings of science and technology. In accordance with the principles of placing equal emphasis on increasing production and improving efficiency, matching good seeds with good methods, combining agricultural machinery with agronomy, and coordinating production and ecology, it is necessary to promote the integration of agricultural technology, the mechanization of the labor process, the informatization of production and operation, and the rule of law in safety and environmental protection, and accelerate the construction of a technical system that meets the requirements of high-yield, high-quality, high-efficiency, ecological, and safe agricultural development.
During the research process, Xi Jinping pointed out that the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee had successfully concluded, the military order had been issued, and the assembly call had been sounded. One part deployment, nine parts implementation. Now that the reform blueprint is available, the key is to turn the blueprint into reality step by step.
Xi Jinping emphasized that reform and opening up have only a progressive tense, not a completed tense. To solve the difficult problems facing China's development, it will not do not to deepen reform, and it will not do to deepen reform with too little force. All Party comrades must have confidence in turning the reform blueprint into reality. No matter what difficulties are encountered, no matter what interference appears, reform must be unswervingly advanced. Reform must be promoted in a coordinated way, attention must be paid to the relevance and coupling of reform, the overall situation must be grasped, and the greatest comprehensive benefits must be strived for. It is necessary to be good at combining conscious maintenance of the unity and seriousness of the central government's major policies with adapting to local conditions and giving full play to subjective initiative. Once a task is determined, it is necessary to move forward step by step and steadily, accumulating small victories into big victories and accumulating short steps to reach a thousand miles.
Promote innovation in the agricultural management system and mechanism
Taking the road of modern agriculture with Chinese characteristics, Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to accelerate the construction of a new agricultural management system.
In this regard, Song Hongyuan, director of the Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that taking accelerating the construction of a new agricultural management system as an important part of advancing rural reform and institutional innovation is a strategic arrangement that makes solving the issues of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers the top priority of the whole Party's work, and is an important means of accelerating the development of modern agriculture, promoting innovation in the agricultural management system and mechanism, and further enhancing the vitality of rural development.
Song Hongyuan said that the prominent features of the new agricultural management system are intensification, specialization, organization, and socialization.
Intensification refers to an agricultural management mode that concentrates more means of production on a certain area of land, uses advanced technology and management methods, and obtains higher yields and income, integrating economic, ecological, and social benefits. Specialization is relative to part-time farming and is the result of the deepening of rural social division of labor and the strengthening of economic ties. Specialized households are generally relatively large in scale, with family management income as the main source of income, and their development direction is specialized large households and family farms. Organization is relative to decentralized management and includes both the association and cooperation of farmers and the extension of the industrial chain. By organizing scattered small farmers, cooperative forms with scale, organization, and scientific management are established. The prominent focus of socialization at the current stage is to develop agricultural socialized services, so that farmers can overcome the drawbacks of their own small-scale management and thereby obtain higher economic benefits.
Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to accelerate the construction of a new agricultural management system, which is a comprehensive judgment made in response to China's current situation of agricultural and rural development. At present and for some time to come, where is the focus of accelerating the construction of a new agricultural management system?
Song Hongyuan said, first, accelerate the cultivation of new agricultural management entities. Specialized large households and family farms are large-scale production entities, and attention should be paid to guiding them to shift toward the adoption of advanced science and technology and production methods; farmers' professional cooperatives should become the main management organizations leading farmers into the market; leading enterprises should mainly assume more roles in agricultural product processing and marketing in the industrial chain, and provide farmers with various production services before, during, and after production. Second, actively and steadily develop scale management. It is necessary to develop moderate-scale management according to the level of industrialization, resource conditions, and operators' capabilities in various places, and guide and encourage various forms of scale management models such as "exchange and consolidation of contracted land," transfer of contracted land, and land share cooperation. Third, strengthen agricultural socialized services. At present, the focus is on developing operational socialized service organizations. In terms of entity cultivation, agricultural means of production distribution enterprises, agricultural machinery service teams, agricultural technology service companies, and professional cooperatives should be included in the scope of policy support. In addition, it is also necessary to explore innovation in organizational models. Improve the degree of organization of small farmers, especially attach importance to the standardized development of farmers' professional cooperatives, promote deep integration between leading enterprises and professional cooperatives, encourage farmers to invest contracted land as shares in cooperatives or leading enterprises, and encourage leading enterprises to carry out various methods such as profit rebates and share dividends to increase farmers' income.