Agricultural modernization will create new economic growth points

Under the new normal, vigorously developing agricultural modernization will provide a new driving force for China's stable economic growth. Agricultural industrialization is the foundation and support of agricultural modernization.

China's agriculture has made good achievements in recent years, grain production has achieved an unparalleled "11 consecutive increases", and farmers' income has achieved "11 consecutive increases". This year, the growth rate of farmers' income will exceed that of GDP and the income of urban residents for the fifth consecutive year, and the income ratio of urban and rural residents is expected to shrink to less than 3 ∶ 1. However, there are hidden worries behind the gorgeous and productive data.

With a continuous bumper harvest of grain, imports are also soaring. In 2013, the net import of China's four major grain, cotton, oil and sugar products is equivalent to the output of more than 800 million mu of cultivated land, which has nearly caught up with half of China's total cultivated land. Correspondingly, the internal and external prices of agricultural products are getting more and more serious. In September this year, the domestic prices of rice, corn, soybeans and cotton were 34.2%, 58.1%, 35.9% and 16.9% higher than the after-tax prices per ton at major ports, respectively. Secondly, various resource factors for sustainable development have become very tight. Agricultural production has an annual water shortage of 30 billion cubic meters, and the over-standard rate of soil pollutants in cultivated land in the country has reached 19.4%. The effective treatment rates of chemical fertilizer utilization, pesticide utilization and livestock and poultry manure are only 33%, 35% and 42%, respectively.

The situation of relying on nature for a living in agriculture has not fundamentally changed, the land output rate, resource utilization rate, and labor productivity are low, the progress of intensive and sustainable development is slow, and all kinds of pressures are accumulating day by day, so that the development of modern agriculture is faced with "unprecedented" challenges.

The just-concluded Central Rural work Conference will vigorously develop agricultural industrialization as the first of the five tasks in promoting agricultural modernization. The meeting proposed that on the basis of stabilizing grain production, we should actively promote the readjustment of the agricultural structure, introduce modern industrial organizations such as industrial chains and value chains into agriculture, and promote the integration and interaction of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries. At the same time, the meeting said that expanding and strengthening the agricultural industry can form many new industries, new business type, new models, and cultivate new economic growth points.

Modern agriculture "one after another", extending the industrial chain of modern agriculture, is to make the integration of the three industries become a new growth pole to promote the development of agricultural and rural economy in our country. The joint action of market demand, market competition, industrial transformation and upgrading, industrial chain extension and related industrial infiltration, scientific and technological progress, agricultural policy and other forces is the dynamic mechanism for the formation of agricultural new business type.

The meeting proposed that on the basis of stabilizing grain production, we should actively promote the readjustment of the agricultural structure, rely on the support of science and technology, change from "production-oriented" to "consumption-oriented", and change from simply thinking about cultivated land to focusing on land and resources. we will build a superior regional layout and a professional production pattern, and speed up the integration of agriculture and animal husbandry.

The transformation from "production-oriented" to "consumption-oriented" emphasizes the conceptual direction of agricultural industrialization. This means that we should aim at market demand, respect consumers' choice, and make the supply of agricultural products better adapt to market demand through standardized production, enterprise management and market-oriented operation, with ecological, healthy and safe food. through processing and circulation to the consumer table.

From simply thinking about cultivated land to facing the whole land and resources, it not only enhances the macro vision of agricultural industrialization, but also emphasizes the agricultural layout beyond cultivated land.

The Central Rural work Conference pointed out that in order to tap the consumption potential of the largest group of farmers, we can give better play to the basic role of consumption; agricultural and rural infrastructure and public services are backward, and there is a huge demand for new investment. can give better play to the key role of investment. In this way, the troika of the economy accounts for the second, why worry about not finding a new growth point of China's economy in rural areas.