Comprehensively promoting rural revitalization on a new journey
The most arduous and arduous task of comprehensively building a socialist modernized country still lies in the countryside, and the most extensive and profound foundation still lies in the countryside. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made important arrangements to comprehensively promote rural revitalization while drawing up the grand blueprint for building a socialist modernized strong country in all respects.
From the perspective of the overall strategy of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, if the nation wants to revive, the countryside must be revitalized. In the new era and new journey, we must adhere to a grand historical perspective and deeply understand the issues of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, and comprehensively promote rural revitalization with more powerful measures.
The connotation of the historic shift in the focus of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work
Taking this as a guide, accurately grasping the scientific connotation of the historical shift in the focus of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work is conducive to a deep understanding of the current focus of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work, and striving to create a new situation of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization.
After the reform and opening up, a series of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" policies were introduced to continuously liberate and develop productivity, and improve the level of rural productivity and the income level of rural population. But in this process, the development gap between urban and rural areas in China has also continued to widen. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has clearly proposed that the most arduous and arduous task of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects is in rural areas, especially in poverty-stricken areas. Without a moderately prosperous society in rural areas, especially in poverty-stricken areas, there would be no comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, and made precise poverty alleviation one of the three major battles for comprehensive deployment, anchoring the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, focusing on conquering the fortress of deep poverty, and making a decisive victory in poverty alleviation. Through the joint efforts of the whole Party and people of all ethnic groups in the country, China has achieved a comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty. Under the current standards, 98.99 million rural impoverished people have been lifted out of poverty, 832 poverty-stricken counties have all been removed from their ranks, and 128000 poverty-stricken villages have all been removed. It can be said that the historic shift in the focus of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work has a solid development foundation, which is a concrete manifestation of the achievements of the new era's development in the field of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" in the past 10 years.
The shift in the focus of work on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers to comprehensively promote rural revitalization does not mean that rural revitalization is the only central work in the field of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. Entering a new stage of development, the foresight and strategic initiative of the work on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers are constantly increasing.This is a strategic deployment made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with a focus on building a socialist modernized strong country in all respects.
The various tasks of the "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work in the new development stage are closely related and interrelated, and each has its own emphasis. The implementation of the rural revitalization strategy is the overall focus of the "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work in the new era. Its purpose is to simultaneously promote the "five major revitalizations" of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology, and organization, stimulate rural vitality, fill the gaps in rural areas, and achieve industrial prosperity, ecological livability, rural civilization, effective governance, and prosperous life. The modernization of agriculture and rural areas is the fundamental guarantee of national modernization and the overall goal of implementing the rural revitalization strategy. Agricultural power is the foundation of socialist modernization and an important goal for promoting comprehensive rural revitalization and modernization of agriculture and rural areas. All three inherently contain the inherent requirements of promoting the comprehensive development of farmers and the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas. To do a good job in the work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers in the new stage of development, we must anchor the strategic goal of achieving modernization of agriculture and rural areas and building a strong agricultural country, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and make gradual and long-term contributions.
A Historical Survey on the Comprehensive Promotion of Rural Revitalization
The comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty marks a solid step for our party in uniting and leading the people to create a better life and achieve common prosperity. At the same time, it is necessary to effectively connect the consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements with rural revitalization. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has decided to establish a 5-year transition period from the date of poverty alleviation for counties that have lifted themselves out of poverty after the completion of the poverty alleviation goals and tasks. During the transition period, the overall stability of the main assistance policies should be maintained.
By utilizing transitional policies, we have not only effectively defended the bottom line of preventing large-scale poverty return and food security, but also consolidated the foundation for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization. On the new journey, we must climb high and look far, recognize the historical position, and then grasp the historical confidence and initiative in implementing the rural revitalization strategy.
Firstly, the development goals of agriculture and rural areas have gradually been clarified in the new era and new journey. We have achieved the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects as scheduled, historically solved the problem of absolute poverty, and now we have embarked on a new journey of building a socialist modernized country in all respects. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has gradually clarified the development strategy for agriculture and rural areas in the new stage of development, which is highly consistent with the strategic arrangement of achieving basic socialist modernization by 2035 and building China into a socialist modernized strong country by the middle of this century.
Secondly, promoting rural revitalization needs to be considered in conjunction with the stage of economic growth. The premise of rural revitalization is the priority development of agriculture and rural areas, which requires a large amount of financial resources and a certain economic growth rate. Our country's economic growth remains generally stable, but two points also need to be fully considered. Firstly, after China's economic development entered a new normal, the growth rate of the economy has slowed down, and in recent years, the downward pressure on the economy has increased. Secondly, China's per capita GDP has exceeded 12000 US dollars, ranking among upper middle income economies and moving towards high-income countries, but there is still a significant gap compared to the standards of moderately developed countries. This also means that promoting rural revitalization cannot overly rely on the development of cities to drive rural areas and cities to feed back rural areas, but must also take the path of cultivating endogenous driving forces.
Again, at present, the comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization still faces many challenges such as significant regional and urban-rural disparities. Although the development gap between the central and western regions and the eastern regions is narrowing, and the income and consumption level gap between rural and urban residents is also narrowing, the three major disparities of regional, urban-rural, and income are still significant. To comprehensively promote rural revitalization, it is necessary to coordinate the development of urban and rural areas.
Comprehensively promoting rural revitalization through adjustment and optimization
During the transitional period established for poverty-stricken counties, China has completed the phased task of consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation. It is possible to further optimize and adjust existing assistance policies item by item, reasonably grasp the pace, intensity, and time limit of adjustment, consolidate the foundation of economic development and institutional construction in poverty-stricken areas, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and accumulate conditions for promoting common prosperity of farmers and rural areas.
From the situation in recent years, relevant departments have formed a relatively rich experience in monitoring and assistance. It can be said that China has the conditions to further improve assistance policies and assistance systems, by establishing clear and actionable poverty prevention standards, while reducing governance costs and ensuring effectiveness.
Some economically developed provinces in the eastern coastal areas of our country have formed relatively successful experiences in assisting low-income populations. The common feature is to determine the local low-income standard based on the provincial and local conditions, gradually achieving an increase in the income level of local low-income households. Other regions can also use development based assistance to help low-income households achieve a leap in income level based on their actual income level and local government financial resources.
It should be noted that promoting the revitalization of rural industries should comply with basic laws: first, respect market laws, focus on local specialties, leverage local comparative advantages, and shape industrial advantages; The second is to establish a long-term mechanism for industrial revitalization to drive employment, entrepreneurship, and income growth for farmers. Under the premise of continuously promoting the development of rural industries, we will improve the policies for revitalizing rural industries from multiple aspects.
