Five important symbols of Modern Agricultural Power

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that if China wants to be strong, agriculture must be strong. As the largest producer, consumer and importer of agricultural products in the world, the problem of large but not strong agriculture in China has become increasingly prominent, with small scale, weak competitiveness and low production efficiency, so there is an urgent need to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of agriculture. to realize the transformation from a big agricultural country to a powerful agricultural country. To this end, the Fifth Plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee made a major plan to "vigorously promote agricultural modernization" and clearly pointed out that remarkable progress should be made in agricultural modernization by 2020. So, what are the important signs of a modern agricultural power?

To judge whether a country is an agricultural power or not, we can not simply rely on quantitative indicators such as grain output, export volume, total power of agricultural machinery and so on. Like Japan, South Korea and Israel, these countries do not have high food production, but they are all recognized as agricultural powers. Therefore, in my opinion, in order to build what kind of agricultural power, we must proceed from our own national conditions and agricultural conditions. The agricultural volume of our country is large, but the foundation is still weak, the quality benefit is not high, and the overall competitiveness is not strong. Therefore, if China wants to become an agricultural power, it must have relatively strong strength in five aspects:

First, the supply and guarantee capacity should be strong.

General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that ensuring national food security and the supply of major agricultural products is the primary task for the development of agriculture. In recent years, China's grain production has achieved "twelve consecutive increases", and the level of effective supply of agricultural products has been continuously improved. However, with the increase of the total population, the proportion of urban population and the improvement of residents' consumption level, the demand for agricultural products in China will show a rigid growth trend in the future. Therefore, in the process of building an agricultural power, we must firmly tighten the string of food security, make overall efforts to do a good job in the production of important agricultural products, such as cotton, sugar, fruit, vegetable, tea, meat, eggs, milk, and aquatic products, and constantly improve the ability to guarantee agricultural supply. to ensure that as long as the market needs it, it can be produced and supplied. By the end of the 13th five-year Plan, the comprehensive production capacity of grain (grain) will reach 550 million tons, and the self-sufficiency rate of wheat and rice will be stable at 100%.

Second, the industrial system should be strong.

In recent years, through optimizing the agricultural layout, developing agricultural industrialization and adjusting the agricultural structure, the overall quality and competitiveness of China's agriculture have been greatly improved, but on the whole, it is still large but not strong, many but not excellent, and there are some problems, such as the combination of planting and breeding is not tight, the circulation is not smooth, the production, marketing is disjointed, and the intensive processing ability of agricultural products is not strong. We must vigorously promote the supply-side structural reform of agriculture, speed up the transformation and upgrading of industries, vigorously develop new industries such as the processing of agricultural products, leisure agriculture, and agricultural e-commerce, and transform the industrial chain and upgrade the value chain. we will expand the primary production, strengthen the secondary production and invigorate the tertiary industry, and speed up the construction of a modern agricultural industrial system. By the end of the 13th five-year Plan, we will initially build a modern agricultural industrial system characterized by the overall planning of grain economy and feeding, the combination of cultivation and cultivation, and the integration of primary, secondary and tertiary products. the ratio of agricultural products processing industry to agricultural industry will reach 2.4 billion, and the operating income of leisure agriculture will reach 700 billion yuan.

Third, the ability of agricultural sustainable development should be strong.

Green development is an important symbol of agricultural modernization. In recent years, although China's agriculture has increased production and income year after year, the pressure on resources and environment is also increasing, and the problems such as soil erosion, serious over-exploitation of groundwater, soil degradation and aggravation of non-point source pollution have become prominent. it has reached the stage that we must vigorously promote the sustainable development of agriculture. The fundamental way out is to change the mode of agricultural development and improve the ability of agricultural sustainable development. It is necessary to make the production process greener, basically build a resource-saving, environment-friendly, and ecological conservation agriculture, stop flooding, fertilizing and enriching drugs in agricultural production, and make great progress in the control of agricultural non-point source pollution and the utilization of waste resources. the agricultural ecological environment has improved significantly. By the end of the 13th five-year Plan, the coverage rate of soil testing and formula fertilization for major crops will reach more than 90%, and the coverage rate of green prevention and control will reach more than 30%.

Fourth, the strength of agricultural science and technology should be strong.

Advanced technology is not only a symbol of agricultural modernization, but also a symbol of a country's agricultural strength. In recent years, China's agricultural scientific and technological achievements continue to emerge, and the contribution rate of science and technology has increased steadily, but compared with developed countries, compared with the requirements of modern agricultural development, there is still a big gap. At present, a new round of global scientific and technological revolution and industrial change is in the ascendant. The accelerated infiltration of the latest science and technology in the fields of life science, information science, advanced manufacturing and intelligent control into agriculture will have a revolutionary impact on agricultural scientific and technological innovation. We should seize the opportunity, vigorously promote agricultural scientific and technological innovation, and achieve technological leapfrogging in the core and key technological fields of modern agriculture. By the end of the 13th five-year Plan, the contribution rate of agricultural scientific and technological progress will reach more than 60%, and the comprehensive mechanization level of crop cultivation and harvest will reach 70%.

Fifth, the vitality of the main body should be strong.

The key to promoting agricultural modernization lies in people. With the continuous mass transfer of the rural young and middle-aged labor force and the structural decline in the quality of the agricultural labor force, the problems of "who will farm the land" and "how to farm the land" are already at hand in the future. In order to solve these problems, we must give full play to the main role of new operators such as large farmers, family farms, farmers' cooperatives and agricultural enterprises, and rely on new operators and new professional farmers to develop various forms of moderate scale operation, so that the leading role of appropriate scale operation in modern agricultural construction can be brought into full play. By the end of the 13th five-year Plan, the proportion of appropriate scale operation of various forms of land will reach 40%, scale operation has become the dominant mode of agricultural production, and all kinds of new operators have become the leading force of agricultural operation. The degree of intensification, specialization, organization and socialization of agricultural production has been significantly improved.