Talking about the increase of Farmers' income in the past 5 years: the key to being well-off depends on the fellow villagers

Not long ago, Xie Suxia, a farmer in Baolin Village, Jiangtai Township, Xiji County, Guyuan, Ningxia, had a new job, working in vegetable repackaging at a vegetable base near the village, which allowed her to earn an additional 2400 yuan a month.

General Secretary Xi Jinping said: "whether we are well-off or not depends on our fellow villagers." During the 12th five-year Plan period, farmers' income grew at an average annual rate of 10.1%, and the Engel coefficient of rural households dropped from 41.1% in 2010 to 37.7% in 2013. More than 50 million people took off the "poor hat". In the digital changes, we can clearly touch the new changes in farmers' life, the new path for farmers to get rich, and the new face of rural society.

Per capita net income grows at an average annual rate of 10.1%: farmers' pockets are getting bigger and bigger.

Wang Congjiong, 63, a farmer in Baimao Town, Yuexi County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, is an expert at growing ginger. "this year, I have planted more than 8 mu of ginger, and it is estimated that the yield per mu is more than 6000 jin. If the fresh ginger is calculated at 2 yuan per jin, the income is estimated to be nearly 100000 yuan."

Living a good life and a rich life has been the greatest dream of Chinese farmers for thousands of years.

In 2014, the per capita net income of Chinese farmers reached 9892 yuan, an increase of nearly 4000 yuan over 2010. Since the 12th five-year Plan, the average annual growth rate has been 10.1%. At present, the growth rate has been higher than the income growth rate of urban residents and higher than the GDP growth rate for five consecutive years, and has maintained relatively rapid growth for 11 consecutive years. This year, the per capita net income of farmers is expected to break through the 10,000 yuan mark. " When it comes to the increase of farmers' income during the 12th five-year Plan period, Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu's words are resounding.

The continuous increase of farmers' income is inseparable from the policy support of the Party. Over the past five years, the CPC Central Committee has always insisted on solving the problems of agriculture, rural areas and farmers as the top priority of the work of the whole party. Since the beginning of the new century, 12 No. 1 documents guiding the work of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" have been issued successively, continuously increasing investment in agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and playing an important role in increasing agricultural production and farmers' income.

Data show that the central financial investment in agriculture, rural areas and farmers exceeded 1 trillion yuan for the first time in 2011 and reached 1.38 trillion yuan in 2013. In the first three years of the 12th five-year Plan, the investment in agriculture, rural areas and farmers exceeded the sum of the Eleventh five-year Plan. In 2014, the "four subsidies" of direct subsidies for growing grain, subsidies for improved varieties, subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery and comprehensive subsidies for agricultural materials reached 168.1 billion yuan, an increase of 45.5 billion yuan over 2010.

With the help of a series of policies, China's agriculture has accelerated the transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, new steps have been made in rural economic and social development, the path for farmers to increase their income and become rich is wider, and farmers' pockets are getting bigger and bigger.

Engel's coefficient dropped by 3.4% in three years: the consumption level of farmers increased significantly.

At the 2015 High-level Forum on Poverty reduction and Development held a few days ago, Zhang Xuan, secretary of the branch of Changgou Village, Jifeng Town, Cheng County, Longnan City, Gansu Province, shared the new changes that e-commerce has brought to the lives of local farmers. "E-commerce is not only to open Taobao online stores, but also not only to sell agricultural products, but also to bring hope to the development of villages in remote mountainous areas from many aspects, such as infrastructure construction and the cultivation of characteristic industries." Zhang Xuan led the villagers out of a road of "farmers + online stores + markets" to get rich.

With the popularity of the Internet in rural areas and the improvement of rural infrastructure, rural e-commerce is developing rapidly, rural business models are constantly innovative, and farmers' consumption means are more diversified. According to statistics, in 2014, China's rural e-commerce users reached nearly 80 million, and the annual growth rate of rural e-commerce users reached 41%, which is much faster than the 17% growth rate of urban e-commerce users.

According to Han Changfu, in 2014, the per capita living expenditure of farmers in China was nearly 7000 yuan, an increase of nearly 3000 yuan over 2010. The Engel coefficient of rural households dropped from 41.1% in 2010 to 37.7% in 2013, and the proportion of food consumption expenditure decreased significantly. Consumer expenditure on culture, education, entertainment, transportation, communications, and health care has been increasing, farmers' housing and living conditions have been greatly improved, and the level of consumption has been significantly upgraded.

"during the 12th five-year Plan period, the income gap between urban and rural residents in China continued to narrow, from 3.13 ∶ 1 in 2011 to 2.92 ∶ 1 in 2014. The Engel coefficient of rural residents decreased by more than 3 percentage points in three years, and the rate of decline is very fast, which fully shows that the quality of life of farmers has been continuously improved." Pan Jiahua, director of the Institute of Urban Development and Environment of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said.

More than 50 million people take off the "poor hat": farmers are better able to share the fruits of development.

Juancheng in Shandong Province is a historical flooded area of the Yellow River with a large number of poor people. In recent years, Juancheng has regarded "one village, one product" as the "No. 1 project" for poverty alleviation and development in the county. Vegetables in Zuoying Township, oil peonies in Penglou Town, honeysuckle in Dongkou Town, and chili peppers in Linpu Town have become well-known and become a characteristic industry to increase the income of the poor people.

During the 12th five-year Plan, especially since the 18th CPC National Congress, the party and the government have put poverty alleviation and development in a more prominent position, pushing forward with great efforts, wide areas, and multi-levels, and make every effort to make up for the shortcomings in the development of poverty-stricken areas.

Statistics show that from 2011 to 2015, the central government's special poverty alleviation funds increased from 27.2 billion yuan to 46.745 billion yuan, almost doubling. During the 12th five-year Plan period, the Ministry of Transport invested more than 550 billion yuan in car tax funds for traffic construction in 14 poverty-stricken areas, accounting for nearly 50% of the country's total. The construction of the basic public service system in poverty-stricken areas has been accelerated, the basic old-age insurance system in urban and rural areas has been established in an all-round way, and more than 5000 people in rural areas across the country have been included in the scope of minimum security.

More than four years have passed, the cause of poverty alleviation and development in China has made great strides forward, and more than 50 million people have taken off the "poor hat." Hong Tianyun, deputy director of the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council, said that from 2011 to 2014, the number of poor people in rural areas across the country decreased from 122 million to 70.17 million, with a cumulative poverty reduction of 52.21 million, and the incidence of poverty dropped from 12.7% to 7.2%. Judging from this year's trend, it is expected to achieve the goal of reducing poverty by another 10 million people.

To build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, no one can be left behind. "at present, there are still more than 70 million poor people in China, and poverty alleviation and development has entered a sprint period of gnawing hard bones and attacking fortified villages." Liu Yongfu, director of the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council, said that in order to achieve the goal of comprehensively eliminating the existing extreme poverty by 2020, we will comprehensively implement the accurate poverty alleviation strategy, focus on building big data for poverty alleviation through development, and pool strong joint efforts to tackle poverty alleviation efforts to ensure that the poor are lifted out of poverty as scheduled.