The per capita income of farmers in China has exceeded 10,000 yuan this year.

The reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture on the 24th that in 2015, the per capita income of farmers in China broke through the 10,000 yuan mark, with an increase higher than that of GDP and the income of urban residents for the sixth consecutive year.

Information from the Ministry of Agriculture shows that during the 12th five-year Plan period, the per capita income of farmers in China grew at an average annual rate of 9.5 percent, and the income ratio of urban and rural residents dropped to less than 2.9 per cent. At the same time, the problem of farmers' income is not high and imbalance still exists. with the "double meeting" between the declining prices of agricultural products and the weak growth of farmers' wage income, it is more difficult to maintain the sustained and rapid growth of farmers' income. During the 13th five-year Plan period, China will improve the policy system to support the growth of farmers' income and broaden new channels to increase income.

It is understood that in 2016, China will increase farmers' income around farmers' transfer income, household operating income, wage income and property income. We will improve the policy system for supporting farmers' income growth, explore the establishment of a green ecology-oriented agricultural subsidy system, implement a new round of subsidy policies for grassland ecological protection and appropriately raise standards, and explore the establishment of subsidies such as farmers' ecological compensation and crop rotation. We will continue to implement the policy of minimum purchase prices for rice and wheat, promote the separation of corn price compensation, the overall planning of price compensation, and the reform of the collection and storage system, continue to do a good job in the pilot project of target prices for soybeans and cotton, and guide farmers to actively link up with the market and develop high-quality and high-price agricultural products.

At the same time, we will guide farmers to go out to work, find jobs nearby and return to their hometown to start businesses, so as to increase their wage income. We will promote pilot reforms such as rural land expropriation, homestead, collective construction land and demutualization of collective property rights, and safeguard the land contract rights, homestead use rights and collective income distribution rights of farmers who have settled in cities. We will support and guide them to voluntarily transfer the above-mentioned rights and interests in accordance with the law, and create conditions to increase farmers' property income.