The Ministry of Agriculture vigorously promotes the excavation and protection of agricultural cultural heritage

The 18th CPC National Congress proposed: "build an excellent traditional cultural inheritance system and carry forward the excellent Chinese traditional culture." General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the Central Rural work Conference: "farming culture is the precious wealth of China's agriculture and an important part of Chinese culture."

China's long and splendid agricultural cultural history, coupled with the great natural and cultural differences in different regions, has created agricultural cultural heritage with a wide variety, obvious characteristics and a high degree of unity of economic and ecological value. such as Yunnan Honghe rice terrace system, Zhejiang Qingtian rice-fish symbiosis system, as well as many places of traditional tea garden, jujube garden, vineyard and other agricultural production system. These are the agricultural cultural models created by the Chinese working people by virtue of their unique and diverse natural conditions and their diligence and wisdom, which contain the philosophical thought of the unity of man and nature and are of high historical and cultural value. However, in the process of rapid economic development, accelerated urbanization and the continuous application of modern agricultural technology, due to the lack of systematic and effective protection, some important agricultural cultural heritage is facing the danger of being destroyed, forgotten and abandoned. In order to implement the central decision and deployment, the Ministry of Agriculture has conscientiously performed its duties and adopted various measures to strengthen the excavation, protection, inheritance and utilization of important agricultural cultural heritage, and has achieved certain results.

The first is to formulate relevant standards and management systems. The Ministry of Agriculture has successively formulated and promulgated the Standards for the Identification of China's important Agricultural Cultural Heritage, the guidelines for the preparation of China's important Agricultural Cultural Heritage and the measures for the Administration of China's important Agricultural Cultural Heritage (for trial implementation). Among them, the "Identification Standard of China's important Agricultural Cultural Heritage" defines the concept of China's important agricultural cultural heritage, and puts forward specific standards from the aspects of history, systematicness, sustainability, endangerment, demonstration, security and so on. The measures for the Administration of China's important Agricultural Cultural Heritage (for trial implementation) mainly standardize the protection and management of China's important agricultural cultural heritage and clarify the rights and obligations of all stakeholders.

The second is to set up an expert committee. In order to provide strong technical support for policy research, advisory services, technical guidance, evaluation and academic exchanges in the excavation of China's important agricultural cultural heritage, the Ministry of Agriculture has set up an expert committee on China's important agricultural cultural heritage, which is composed of 27 experts in agriculture, ecology, environment, economy, history, culture, society and other fields. The duty of the committee is to conduct a systematic study on the resource, cultural, economic and social value of China's important agricultural cultural heritage, and to provide expert advice and technical guidance on the excavation, protection, inheritance and utilization of China's important agricultural cultural heritage. Assist government departments in the development of standards, formulation of management methods, project evaluation and academic discussions of China's important agricultural cultural heritage.

The third is to carry out nationwide identification work. In accordance with the relevant standards and institutional requirements, the Ministry of Agriculture has organized the selection and identification of China's important agricultural cultural heritage throughout the country, and has successively identified 39 important Chinese agricultural cultural heritage in two batches. These heritages include traditional rice farming system, characteristic agricultural system, compound agricultural system and traditional characteristic orchard and so on. it has a long history, unique agricultural products, rich biological resources, perfect knowledge and technology system and high aesthetic and cultural value. 11 of the 39 important agricultural cultural heritages in China have been recognized as global important agricultural cultural heritage by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and China has become the country with the largest number of important agricultural cultural heritages in the world.

The fourth is to guide the heritage sites to formulate protection and development plans. The Ministry of Agriculture has issued the guidelines for the preparation of Agricultural Cultural Heritage Protection and Development Planning, which puts forward the planning principles of priority and appropriate use of protection, overall protection, coordinated development, dynamic protection, functional expansion, multi-party participation and benefit sharing. Governments of all heritage sites are required to enhance their understanding, increase investment, and determine the objectives of protection and development based on the actual situation. Integrate heritage protection and development planning into local national economic and social development planning, overall land use planning and urban and rural construction planning, and scientifically delineate the scope of heritage sites, clarify the layout of agricultural ecological protection, agricultural cultural protection, agricultural landscape protection and the development of ecological products.

The fifth is to publicize and display China's important agricultural cultural heritage. In 2013 and 2014, the Ministry of Agriculture organized two events for the release of China's important agricultural cultural heritage, inviting all Chinese mainstream media to participate in a centralized and comprehensive publicity and display of China's important agricultural cultural heritage, to advocate the establishment of awareness of the protection of agricultural cultural heritage in the whole society and to raise public awareness of agricultural cultural heritage. At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture guided the local governments of various heritage sites to strengthen the publicity and display of China's important agricultural cultural heritage, explicitly requiring each heritage site to set up "China's important agricultural cultural heritage logo" in the core areas of the heritage, and set up a heritage exhibition hall to promote the concept and connotation of heritage, traditional technology, landscape resources, history and culture.

In the next step, the Ministry of Agriculture will organize and guide agricultural departments at all levels to further strengthen work planning, improve the working mechanism, actively explore and improve policies, measures and working mechanisms for the protection of agricultural cultural heritage, and strengthen supervision and management. supervise and urge the government of the place where the heritage is located to set up the heritage logo in accordance with the requirements, and do a good job in the protection work in accordance with the development planning and management measures already issued. Strengthen publicity and promotion, on the basis of deeply digging the spiritual connotation of agricultural cultural heritage, use modern display means to strengthen publicity, create a good social atmosphere, and promote the inheritance of Chinese agricultural civilization.