Minister of Agriculture: vigorously promote the construction of modern agriculture and promote primary, secondary and tertiary production

Han Changfu, Minister of Agriculture, wrote a signed article in People's Daily on November 25th. The article said: it is necessary to speed up the transformation of the mode of agricultural development, vigorously promote the construction of modern agriculture, and realize the simultaneous development of new industrialization, informationization, urbanization and agricultural modernization.

The article emphasizes that more attention should be paid to optimizing the agricultural structure and cultivating the modern agricultural industrial system. Modern agriculture must be guided by market demand, realize regional layout and specialized production, and promote the overall planning of grain economy and feeding, the combination of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishing, the integration of planting and breeding, and the deep integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries.

The article also said that more attention should be paid to increasing grain production capacity and tapping the new potential of grain production. It is necessary to steadily increase grain production capacity as the primary task to accelerate the transformation of the mode of agricultural development. Grain production can be reduced according to market demand, but grain production capacity must be consolidated and increased. Adhere to the strictest cultivated land protection system, adhere to the red line of cultivated land, comprehensively delimit permanent basic farmland, explore the implementation of a pilot system of rotation and fallow of cultivated land, and implement the strategy of storing grain in the land and technology, to ensure that "grain is basically self-sufficient and food rations are absolutely safe."

The article said that more attention should be paid to scientific and technological innovation to enhance the comprehensive production capacity of agriculture. To accelerate the transformation of the mode of agricultural development, it is fundamentally driven by innovation. It is necessary to speed up the establishment of a modern agricultural scientific and technological innovation system and promote the transformation of achievements and technological popularization. Vigorously develop the modern seed industry, expand, strengthen, breed and promote integrated seed enterprises, and actively promote the construction of national breeding and seed production bases. We will speed up the pace of agricultural mechanization and promote the mechanization of the whole process of major crop production. Promote agricultural informatization, carry out "Internet +" modern agricultural action, implement the project of information entering villages and households, and speed up the demonstration and application of the Internet of things in agriculture.

The article also emphasizes that more attention should be paid to the protection and management of agricultural ecological environment to realize the sustainable development of agriculture. Resource conservation and environmental friendliness are the basic requirements of modern agriculture. It is necessary to vigorously develop water-saving agriculture, promote engineering water-saving, variety water-saving, agronomic water-saving, management water-saving, pollution control and water-saving, and improve the efficiency of agricultural water use.

The following is the full text of the article:

Speed up the transformation of the mode of agricultural development (study and implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee)

Han Changfu

The "proposal of the CPC Central Committee on the formulation of the 13th five-year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" (hereinafter referred to as "the proposal") clearly puts forward that we should speed up the transformation of the mode of agricultural development and improve agricultural quality, efficiency and competitiveness. remarkable progress has been made in agricultural modernization. This is a major strategic plan made by the CPC Central Committee to focus on the overall situation of socialist modernization and to meet the new challenges of agricultural development. We should deeply understand and comprehensively implement it, give priority to speeding up the transformation of the mode of agricultural development, vigorously promote the construction of modern agriculture, and realize the simultaneous development of new industrialization, informationization, urbanization and agricultural modernization.

China has reached the stage where we must speed up the transformation of the mode of agricultural development.

Agriculture is the foundation of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and realizing modernization, and it is also a strategic industry that stabilizes the hearts and minds of the people and the world. During the Twelfth five-year Plan period, the construction of modern agriculture in China has been accelerated. There has been a new increase in the comprehensive production capacity of agriculture, and grain production has reached two levels of 100 billion jin in five years, and the total grain output reached 1.2142 trillion jin in 2014, stabilizing at more than 1.2 trillion jin for two consecutive years. At the same time, cotton oil sugar, fruit and vegetable tea, meat, eggs and milk, aquatic products and other stable development. New breakthroughs have been made in the construction of modern agriculture. In 2014, the contribution rate of agricultural scientific and technological progress exceeded 56%, the improved varieties of major crops, especially grain crops, basically achieved full coverage, the comprehensive mechanization level of farming and harvest exceeded 61%, and the effective irrigated area of farmland accounted for more than 52%. New progress has been made in the construction of the agricultural management system, the orderly promotion of land circulation, the steady development of appropriate scale operation of agriculture, and the gradual growth of the main body of new agricultural management. By the end of 2014, there were more than 870000 family farms and 1.28 million farmers' cooperatives, accounting for more than 30 per cent of household contracted arable land. For five consecutive years, the growth rate of farmers' income was higher than that of GDP and the income of urban residents, and the income ratio of urban and rural residents dropped from 3.33 ∶ 1 at the end of the Eleventh five-year Plan to 2.92 ∶ 1 in 2014. Under the background of increasing downward pressure on the economy, the good situation of agriculture has become a "Poseidon needle" for the sustained and healthy development of economy and society.

The 13th five-year Plan period is the decisive stage of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. It should be noted that China's agricultural modernization still lags behind, facing many challenges, such as "three increasingly prominent": first, the environmental constraints of agricultural resources have become increasingly prominent. The problems such as the reduction of the quantity and quality of cultivated land, the over-exploitation of groundwater and the aggravation of agricultural non-point source pollution are prominent. the strings of resource elements are getting tighter and tighter, and the agricultural ecological environment lights up a "red light". Especially after the problem of food and clothing is solved, the public has higher and higher requirements for the ecological environment and the quality of agricultural products. Second, the imbalance of agricultural production structure has become increasingly prominent. Agricultural regional layout and resource endowment do not fully match, north-south grain transportation and south-to-north water transfer coexist; grain economy and feeding structure is unreasonable, and the increase of inventory and import of some agricultural products coexist; the combination of farming and aquaculture is not tight and circulation is not smooth; the decline of soil fertility and the lack of effective utilization of manure in aquaculture coexist; there is a disconnection in production, processing, circulation and consumption, and the whole agricultural industry chain has not yet been formed. Third, the problem of low quality and efficiency of agricultural development has become increasingly prominent. The cost of agricultural production is in the "rising channel", and the price of international agricultural products is lower than that of domestic agricultural products in varying degrees. Under the double squeeze of cost "floor" and price "ceiling", the comparative benefit of agriculture continues to decline. The trend of part-time agriculture and the aging of farmers is obvious, and the problems of "who will farm the land" and "how to farm the land" are prominent.

Generally speaking, China is in a critical period of transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture. In accordance with the requirements of the proposal, we should persist in taking speeding up the transformation of the mode of agricultural development as the main task and basic path to promote agricultural modernization during the 13th five-year Plan period, and speed up the construction of modern agricultural industrial system, production system and management system. We will promote the comprehensive production capacity of grain, the quality and safety level of agricultural products, the utilization rate of agricultural resources and farmers' income to a new level. Promoting agricultural development has shifted from quantity growth to equal emphasis on quantity and quality benefits, from relying mainly on material input to relying on scientific and technological innovation and improving the quality of workers, and from relying mainly on resources and consumption to sustainable development and development. take the road of agricultural modernization with high output efficiency, product safety, resource saving and environment-friendly.

The key tasks of speeding up the transformation of agricultural development mode

The "proposal" makes comprehensive arrangements for speeding up the transformation of the mode of agricultural development. We should proceed from China's national conditions and agricultural conditions, identify the focal points of our work, and pay close attention to achieving results.

We will pay more attention to increasing grain production capacity and tap the new potential for grain production. With the increase of the total population, the increase of the proportion of urban population, the improvement of the consumption level of residents and the expansion of the industrial use of agricultural products, the demand for agricultural products in China shows a rigid growth trend. According to the forecast of experts, the demand for grain in China will be about 1.4 trillion jin by 2020, and there is still a shortfall of about 200 billion jin. Comrade Xi Jinping stressed that the Chinese people's rice bowls should be firmly in their own hands at all times, and our rice bowls should be mainly filled with Chinese grain. It is necessary to steadily increase grain production capacity as the primary task to accelerate the transformation of the mode of agricultural development. Grain production can be adjusted according to market demand, but grain production capacity must be consolidated and increased. Adhere to the strictest cultivated land protection system, adhere to the red line of cultivated land, comprehensively delimit permanent basic farmland, explore the implementation of a pilot system of rotation and fallow of cultivated land, and implement the strategy of storing grain in the land and technology, to ensure that "grain is basically self-sufficient and food rations are absolutely safe." At present, the middle-and low-yield fields in China account for about 2. 3%, and most of them still depend on heaven for food. We will promote land renovation, the transformation of medium-and low-yield fields, and the construction of high-standard farmland on a large scale, and build 800 million mu of high-standard farmland by 2020.