Innovating rural governance with "separation of politics and economy"

Beijing, 2 Nov (Xinhua) the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council recently issued the "Comprehensive implementation Plan for deepening Rural Reform," which is the top-level design of China's current rural reform and the key deployment in the critical period of rural economic and social development. What are the new highlights of the plan? What new information about reform will be released? Xinhua News Agency reporter immediately interviewed relevant experts.

Speed up the revision of the Land contract Law

"Reform cannot sing its own tune and shout its own number. Today, when the relationship of interests is becoming more and more complex, rural reform must be planned and implemented as a whole. " Ye Xingqing, director of the Rural Department of the Development Research Center of the State Council, believes that.

The plan issued by the Central Office and the State Office is clear about this. The plan points out that rural reform must establish systematic thinking, do a good job in overall planning and top-level design, find out the bull's nose and principal contradictions that affect the whole body, and further improve the scientific nature of rural reform decision-making.

Ye Xingqing believes that in the next step, the reform of the land contract management system and the rural collective property rights system will be further promoted, and the related legal amendments such as the Land contract Law and the property Law are expected to be accelerated.

Promote the determination of collective assets to households

At present, problems such as unclear ownership of rural collective assets, unclear rights and responsibilities, lax protection, poor circulation and so on are prominent. How to make the "sleeping assets" in rural areas come alive?

"taking the road of market economy and clarifying property rights is an unavoidable topic. The clearer the rural collective property rights, the stronger the rural market vitality. " Wang Yukai, a professor at Chinese Academy of Governance, believes that the current reform of China's rural collective property rights system lags behind, which on the one hand can not activate the potential of various elements in rural areas, on the other hand, it is not conducive to the protection of farmers' legitimate rights.

The plan focuses on this issue. The plan points out that to establish and improve the rural collective property rights system that meets the requirements of the socialist market economic system and the reality of the primary stage of socialism, we must take the protection of the rights of members of farmers' collective economic organizations as the core. Focus on clarifying the ownership of rural collective property rights and giving farmers more property rights. To ensure that the fruits of collective economic development benefit all members of the collective.

"vigorously promoting the reform of the rural collective property rights system is conducive to expanding the sources of farmers' property income and establishing a long-term mechanism for increasing farmers' income." Ye Xingqing believes that further activating land management rights, carrying out pilot projects of collective construction land into the market, and promoting the determination of collective assets to households will all become the focus of reform in the future.

Vigorously support the new type of professional farmers

Grain production depends on the "386199" troops, aging farming, lack of successors in agriculture, and low production efficiency.

For this plan, it is proposed to attract young people to work in agriculture, cultivate a new type of professional farmers, and create a new team of high-quality agricultural producers and operators. It is proposed to speed up the cultivation of new agricultural operators, such as family farms, professional large households, farmers' cooperatives, leading enterprises of agricultural industrialization, and so on.

"compared with small farmers, new agricultural operators such as family farms and professional large households have certain production funds and scale, and can carry out large-scale operation with relatively considerable profits, which can solve the problem of 'who will farm the land'; on the other hand, professional farmers who understand technology and good management can also solve the problem of 'how to farm land', which is conducive to the transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture." Said Dang Guoying, a researcher at the Rural Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Experts pointed out that the plan sends a strong signal that the state will vigorously support new types of professional farmers and new business entities, and it is expected that fiscal, taxation, finance and other related policies will be significantly skewed towards this aspect in the next step.

Investment continues to tilt towards agriculture and rural areas

On the one hand, the growth rate of national fiscal revenue has obviously slowed down, on the other hand, international food prices remain low, so should we increase investment in agriculture, rural areas and farmers? How to reform the agricultural support and protection system?

"in recent years, with the country's bumper grain harvest in successive years and international food prices continuing to decline, some people think that the state's support for agriculture can be weakened. However, the document proposes that agricultural investment will only increase, and agricultural support and protection will continue to increase, reflecting the central government's policy intention of not relaxing the work of agriculture, rural areas and farmers and ensuring the top priority of agriculture. " Said Zheng Fengtian, deputy dean of the School of Agriculture and Rural Development, Renmin University of China.

The plan clearly proposes to establish a stable growth mechanism of agricultural and rural investment. Regard agriculture and rural areas as the priority security area of financial expenditure, and the investment in the central budget continues to tilt towards agriculture and rural areas, ensuring that investment in agriculture and rural areas only increases but does not decrease.

Rural governance is a top priority

The plan points out that in areas where the reform of the rural collective property rights system and the establishment of rural joint-stock cooperative economic organizations are carried out, we will explore the separation of the functions of the village "two committees" in the operation and management of collective assets, and carry out the experiment of "separation of politics and economy." "Rural and village governance is the highlight of rural reform in the future. The central document proposes for the first time the "separation of politics and economy", which draws lessons from the experience of the reform of state-owned enterprises, which is conducive to maintaining and increasing the value of rural collective assets, and is also conducive to realizing the modernization of rural governance capacity and governance system. " Zheng Fengtian said.