Increase investment in agriculture and build a solid foundation in an all-round way

A few days ago, the State Council issued the National Agricultural Modernization Plan (2016-2020)(hereinafter referred to as the Plan), which became a programmatic document for implementing new development concepts and promoting agricultural modernization during the 13th Five-Year Plan period. In order to strengthen investment guarantee and ensure the realization of the objectives of the Plan, the National Development and Reform Commission will thoroughly implement the requirements of the Plan on strengthening the policy of strengthening agriculture, benefiting farmers and enriching farmers, integrating and optimizing the state's agricultural investment, insisting on taking agriculture and rural areas as the key guarantee areas for national fixed asset investment, highlighting weak links and key projects, and laying a solid foundation for promoting agricultural modernization.

National agricultural input is an important guarantee for improving agricultural and rural development conditions and accelerating agricultural modernization. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the state will further establish and improve the mechanism for sustained growth of agricultural investment, adhere to the agricultural and rural areas as the key areas of national fixed asset investment, and ensure that the intensity does not weaken and the total amount increases. Centering on the "short board" of agricultural infrastructure, we will constantly optimize the investment structure within the central budget, focusing on consolidating the agricultural production base, strengthening the support of agricultural technology and equipment, and improving agricultural sustainability. Adhere to the leading role of the National Agricultural Modernization Plan and various special plans, do a good job in the integration of state agricultural investment funds, and concentrate on building a number of major infrastructure and major projects that benefit both the present and the long term. We should make good use of every cent of funds invested by the state in agriculture, improve the performance appraisal mechanism for the use of funds, improve the management methods for the use of funds, and ensure that the infrastructure and major projects built will give full play to their long-term benefits.

To accelerate agricultural modernization, we must implement the strategy of "storing grain in the ground and storing grain in technology", build production bases for grain and important agricultural products, and ensure food security and effective supply of bulk agricultural products. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, we will build high-standard farmland on a large scale, fully implement the National Master Plan for the Construction of High-standard Farmland (2011-2020) and the National Plan for the Production Capacity of 100 Billion Jin of Grain (2009-2020), ensure the construction of 800 million mu by 2020, strive to build 1 billion mu of high-standard farmland, and continuously improve the comprehensive production capacity of grain, cotton, oil, sugar and other bulk agricultural products. Relying on the main functional zoning and the distribution of advantageous agricultural products, on the basis of the demarcation of permanent basic farmland, we will establish grain production functional areas and important agricultural product production protection zones, implement the production capacity of rice, wheat, corn, soybean, cotton, rapeseed, sugar cane and other agricultural products to specific plots, take the lead in promoting the construction of high-standard farmland in the "two zones", and form core production areas and high-yield and stable production supply bases for grain and other important agricultural products.

To accelerate agricultural modernization, we must build and improve the modern agricultural science and technology innovation and popularization system, and strive to strengthen agricultural material equipment and technical support. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, key agricultural science and technology innovation projects and projects will be implemented, focusing on breakthroughs in key technologies and equipment in the fields of biological breeding, agricultural machinery equipment, intelligent agriculture, ecological environment protection, etc. Deepen the development of modern seed industry, deepen the reform of agricultural science and technology system, implement modern seed industry construction project, improve the breeding system of improved livestock and poultry, and promote the construction of national breeding and seed production bases in Hainan, Gansu and Sichuan. Accelerate the research and development of high-end agricultural machinery equipment and key core components, focus on breaking through the bottleneck of rape, cotton, sugar cane and other operations, and improve the mechanization level of the whole process of main crop production.

To speed up agricultural modernization, we must promote the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries and build a modern agricultural industrial system in an all-round way. Constantly introduce new technologies, new formats and new models into agriculture, guide agriculture with modern concepts, transform agriculture with modern technologies, promote the extension of agricultural industrial chain, form a modern industrial system with cross-integration of agriculture and secondary and tertiary industries, and enhance the overall competitiveness of domestic agriculture. To build a number of rural industrial integration development parks with perfect supporting service system and industrial agglomeration development, and to support a number of leading agricultural industrialization enterprises with long industrial chain and close interest linkage mechanism with farmers. We will implement the pilot demonstration project of "100 counties, thousands of townships and thousands of villages" for the integrated development of rural industries, support local governments to focus on subject cultivation and policy innovation, and form a number of replicable and replicable business models.

To accelerate agricultural modernization, we must firmly establish the concept of green development, protect the "mountains, rivers, forests, fields and lakes" as a whole, systematically repair and comprehensively manage them. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, we will continue to implement and improve the overall plan for the treatment of outstanding agricultural environmental problems, strengthen the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution, build demonstration areas for agricultural non-point source pollution control in typical river basins such as Songhua River, Haihe River, Huaihe River, Hanjiang River and Taihu Lake, as well as key areas such as the Three Gorges Reservoir Area and the water source area of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, increase support for the treatment of reclaimed and abandoned grasslands and the protection of black land in Northeast China, and provide support for groundwater funnel areas, heavy metal pollution areas, Comprehensive management should be carried out in areas with serious ecological degradation. We will implement the plan for recuperation of cultivated land, grasslands and rivers and lakes, adhere to the strictest cultivated land protection system, carry out rotation fallow pilot projects, implement a new round of projects to return farmland to forests and grasslands, steadily expand the scope of implementation of returning grazing land to grassland, and carry out the return of farmland to lakes and wetlands, so as to fundamentally reduce the bearing pressure on agricultural resources and promote the natural restoration of agricultural ecology.