How to enter the 13th Five-Year Plan

2016 is the first year of the 13th five-year Plan, how to accurately grasp the situation of agricultural and rural economic development during the 13th five-year Plan? What characteristics will be presented in the development of agricultural and rural economy? This reporter interviewed Han Changfu, Minister of Agriculture.

Han Changfu said: at present, profound changes are taking place in the internal and external environment of China's agricultural development. On the one hand, the material and technological equipment foundation for agricultural development is more solid, the supply of major agricultural products is adequate, and new technologies, new industries, and new business type are emerging at an accelerated pace, and opportunities are very rare; on the other hand, all kinds of new and old contradictions are intertwined and superimposed, and the problems of imbalance, uncoordination, and unsustainability are still prominent. It can be said that the development of agricultural and rural economy during the 13th five-year Plan has an unprecedented starting point, unprecedented challenges and unprecedented tasks, which can be summarized as "six periods with the same arrival".

The 13th five-year Plan is the decisive period for building a well-off society in rural areas in an all-round way. To build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, the most arduous and arduous task lies in the rural areas, and the biggest deficiency lies in the rural poor. At present, farmers' income is still not high and uneven. At the end of 2014, more than 70 million rural people across the country had not yet been lifted out of poverty, mainly concentrated in remote rural areas with fragile ecology, weak infrastructure and lagging public services. It is the hardest bone in the fight against poverty.

The 13th five-year Plan is the key period to consolidate the good situation in agriculture and rural areas. The good situation of "12 consecutive increases" and "12 consecutive fast" is not easy to come by. If you relax a little, the high point may become an inflection point. At present, the agricultural foundation is still weak, the small scale of operation, lack of scientific and technological support and other problems are prominent, the various supporting elements of agricultural development have been very tight. At present, there is an urgent need to build a consensus that the good situation in agriculture and rural areas should not be reversed.

The 13th five-year Plan is a transitional period of agricultural development mode. China's agricultural development has made great achievements, but also paid a great price, agriculture has reached a new stage where there is an urgent need to speed up the transformation of the mode of development. During the 13th five-year Plan period, agriculture can only take the road of sustainable development, and major adjustments must be made in development ideas, technical system, policy support, and resource allocation, vigorously promote supply-side structural reform, and optimize product structure and industrial structure. improve the quality and efficiency of the agricultural supply system. There is no doubt that this is a revolution, which is bound to go through labor pains, decisions and fortifications.

The 13th five-year Plan is a climbing period to enhance the competitiveness of agriculture. In recent years, the output of agricultural products in China has continued to increase, and the total amount of agricultural products such as grain, cotton, oil, fruits, vegetables and fish ranks first in the world, and the per capita share exceeds the world average. However, the problems of large but not strong agriculture, many but not excellent, and weak competitiveness have emerged. China's agriculture is at a disadvantage in the competition with developed countries, there is an urgent need to enhance the sense of urgency and crisis, unremittingly improve the quality and efficiency of agricultural products, and constantly enhance the competitiveness of agriculture.

The 13th five-year Plan is a critical period for comprehensively deepening rural reform. At present, the rural reform has entered a critical period and deep-water areas, and the task of perfecting the new agricultural management system and agricultural support and protection system is arduous; especially the reform matters such as contracted land, homestead, rural collective construction land and collective property rights system, involving the adjustment of multi-interest relations, is easy to lead to rural social contradictions and conflicts. However, these are obstacles that cannot be bypassed, and there is an urgent need to overcome difficulties.

In addition, the 13th five-year Plan is still the deepening period of promoting urban-rural integration. There is an urgent need to further improve the system and mechanism of the integration of urban and rural development, speed up the removal of the barriers of urban-rural dual structure, and build a new type of urban-rural relationship between workers and farmers.

"focusing on one point, China has entered a critical period of accelerating the transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture." Han Changfu said: if we successfully seize the opportunities and effectively deal with the challenges, agriculture will be able to transform and upgrade smoothly and strengthen the foundation for building a well-off society in an all-round way; if we do not respond effectively, the development of agriculture and rural areas may further lag behind, which is bound to drag down the construction of a well-off society in an all-round way. Therefore, we must enhance the awareness of suffering and responsibility, and come up with effective measures and practical actions to deal with the complex situation.

Han Changfu believes that agricultural and rural economic work in the 13th five-year Plan should firmly establish the concept of five major development, revolve around the goal of making obvious progress in agricultural modernization, adhere to the main line of speeding up the transformation of the mode of agricultural development, highlight the center of promoting the sustained and rapid increase of farmers' income, and strive to achieve the "six all-round improvements."

We will comprehensively raise the level of supply security for grain and other important agricultural products. We will persist in storing grain in the land and technology, and promote irrigation and water conservancy, land renovation, the transformation of medium-and low-yield fields, and the construction of high-standard farmland on a large scale. Comprehensively raise the leading level of various forms of moderate scale operation. We should guide the development of appropriate scale operations in various forms, cultivate new types of agricultural operators, improve the socialized service system of agriculture, and improve the level of agricultural intensification and organization. We will comprehensively raise the level of agricultural technology and equipment. By 2020, we will strive to complete a new round of upgrading of major crop varieties, with the contribution rate of agricultural scientific and technological progress exceeding 60%, and the comprehensive mechanization level of crop cultivation and harvest reaching more than 68%.

We will comprehensively improve the efficiency of agricultural production and operation. It is necessary to vigorously promote agricultural cost savings and efficiency, implement the agricultural brand strategy, develop high-efficiency and high-quality agricultural products, extend the agricultural industrial chain and value chain, develop the agricultural sharing economy, and improve labor productivity, land output rate, and resource utilization rate. Improve the quality and safety of agricultural products in an all-round way. We must adhere to both "production" and "control" with both hands and hard hands. We will comprehensively raise the level of sustainable development of agriculture. By 2020, we will strive to achieve key breakthroughs in the treatment of agricultural non-point source pollution and outstanding environmental problems, and initially form a modern agricultural development pattern with coordinated production, life and ecology.