The Rural work Conference sets the path of agricultural modernization: food security is

The conclusion of the Central Rural work Conference: setting the path of Agricultural Modernization

Sun Chunfang reporting from Beijing by our reporter

The annual Central Rural work Conference was held in Beijing from December 22 to 23, Xinhua reported. The meeting discussed some opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on further deepening rural reform and accelerating agricultural modernization (discussion draft). Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council attended the meeting and made an important speech, while Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli attended the meeting.

The meeting stressed that to promote agricultural modernization, it is necessary to persist in taking the protection of national food security as the top priority. First, vigorously develop agricultural industrialization. We will promote the integration and interaction of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries. The second is to actively develop various forms of suitable scale operation. We will guide and standardize the orderly transfer of land management rights, develop all kinds of new types of agricultural operators, and avoid "non-grain" and "non-agriculture". The third is to build resource-saving and environment-friendly agriculture. The fourth is to increase agricultural policies and capital investment. We will integrate agriculture-related funds as a whole, innovate the mechanism of agricultural investment and financing, and improve the system of financial support for agriculture. Fifth, make good use of two markets and two kinds of resources.

The meeting pointed out that tapping the consumption potential of the largest group of farmers 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, and making good use of this space can give better play to the key role of investment; expanding and strengthening the agricultural industry can form many new industries, new business type, new models, and cultivate new economic growth points.

Based on food security

Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the theme of the 2015 Central "No. 1 document" will revolve around "further deepening rural reform and speeding up agricultural modernization", and its ultimate goal is to ensure China's food security. In the end, the five specific measures put forward by the Central Rural work Conference are all around the theme of food security.

The Central Rural work Conference stressed that with the changes in environmental conditions at home and abroad and the deep-seated contradictions accumulated by long-term extensive management, the challenges facing the sustained and stable development of agriculture are unprecedented.

In recent years, the price of major domestic agricultural products exceeds the import price, while the production cost is rising; the agricultural ecological environment is damaged, and cultivated land, fresh water and other resources are scarce.

Chen Xiwen, deputy head of the Central Rural work leading Group, said at a recent forum that China currently imports more than 84 million tons of grain every year, and in addition to more than 60 million tons of soybeans, grain imports have also reached nearly 15 million tons. In addition, China imports 4.5 million tons of cotton, 4.54 million tons of sugar and 8.09 million tons of vegetable oil every year.

Li Guoxiang said: the meeting once again proposed to make good use of both domestic and foreign resources.In fact, China can make more efforts to make use of foreign resources.For example, although agricultural imports are increasing year by year, the proportion of staple grain imports in GDP is still within the safety red line, so there is still some room for it. At the same time, this year, the central government has stepped up the deployment of land reclamation reform and urged some giants of land reclamation enterprises to go abroad to explore resources. "of course, in a big country like China, the agricultural problem has to be based on its own country in the end." Li Guoxiang said.

Guide the orderly transfer of land management rights

The Central Rural work Conference called for giving full play to the radiative role of the new type of urbanization on agricultural modernization. Efforts should be made to solve the existing problem of "three 100 million people", guide the flow of urban and modern factors of production to agriculture and rural areas, and increase farmers' income through various channels. We will actively and steadily promote the construction of a new countryside and speed up the pace of poverty alleviation and prosperity in poor areas.

In response, Zheng Fengtian, deputy dean of the School of Agriculture and Rural Development at Renmin University of China, said that from the relevant descriptions of rural work in this year's government work report, we can see that the central government will continue to increase investment in rural areas. this includes rural water conservancy facilities, drinking water safety and other infrastructure and public services. On the one hand, this can consolidate the cornerstone of agriculture and ensure the increase of agricultural production and farmers' income; on the other hand, this is also the focus of the government's stimulus policy under the depressed macroeconomic situation, and the increase of farmers' income in agricultural development is also conducive to the cultivation of rural markets and the expansion of domestic demand. "therefore, investment in rural areas will remain strong in the future." Zheng Fengtian shows.

The national rural work conference proposed that the tasks for next year include: guiding the orderly transfer of land management rights, developing appropriate scale operation of agriculture, expanding the pilot project of registration and certification of land contractual management rights, and tamping the foundation for innovation of agricultural management system.

In fact, the development of moderate scale operation was already brewing a few years ago. On November 21 this year, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council formally issued the opinions on guiding the orderly transfer of Rural Land Management Rights to develop appropriate scale Management of Agriculture.

A person from the Rural economy Department of the Development Research Center of the State Council told the 21st Century Economic report that the premise of moderate scale operation is to do a good job in the certification and registration of rural property rights, and then carry out the orderly circulation of land. "of course, you can't grow anything else in this place. In other words, it is necessary to prevent the phenomenon of 'non-agriculturalization' and'de-grain'. " The above-mentioned person said.

The above-mentioned person from the Ministry of Rural economy of the National Research Center said that the transfer of agricultural land, moderate management and the cultivation of new business entities should be one of the themes of rural work next year and even in the next few years.

Another theme of this year's central rural work conference is to deepen rural reform, including promoting the reform of the rural collective property rights system, the person said.

On September 29, 2014, the fifth meeting of the deep reorganization of the Central Committee deliberated the "opinions on guiding the orderly transfer of contracted Management Rights of Rural Land to develop appropriate scale Management of Agriculture" and the "pilot Plan for actively developing Farmers' shares as Joint Stock Rights for Collective assets." On December 2, the Seventh meeting of the Central Deep reorganization deliberated the opinions on Rural Land expropriation, the entry of Collective Construction Land into the Market, and the pilot work of Homestead system Reform.