Photovoltaic power generation was included in the No. 1 Central Document of 2017

　　On February 5th, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council jointly issued "Several Opinions on Deepening the Supply-Side Structural Reform in Agriculture and Accelerating the Cultivation of New Driving Forces for Agricultural and Rural Development" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), which provides guidance for rural development and includes important information on energy and environmental protection that is of interest to Xiaonengshi. The Opinions point out the need to vigorously promote efficient and ecological circular farming and breeding models, accelerate the centralized processing of livestock and poultry manure, and promote the healthy development of large-scale biogas. Deepen the creation of green, high-yield, and high-efficiency agriculture, focusing on the promotion of high-quality specialized varieties and cost-reducing, energy-saving, and recycling technology models. Promote the conversion of rural machine wells from oil to electricity in plain areas as appropriate. Promote pilot projects for the resource utilization of agricultural waste. Implement rural new energy initiatives, promote photovoltaic power generation, and gradually expand the supply of rural electricity, gas, and clean coal.

　　The following is the full text of the Opinions.

　　After years of unremitting efforts, China's agricultural and rural development has continuously reached new heights and has entered a new historical stage. The main contradiction in agriculture has shifted from insufficient total quantity to structural contradictions, prominently manifested in the coexistence of temporary oversupply and undersupply, with the main aspect of the contradiction lying on the supply side. In recent years, China has actively explored agricultural transformation, adjustment of structure, and promotion of reforms, laying a certain foundation for further promoting agricultural transformation and upgrading. However, problems such as imbalance in the supply and demand structure of agricultural products, unreasonable allocation of factors, great pressure on resources and the environment, and weak sustained growth in farmers' income remain prominent. Contradictions such as increasing output and improving quality, rising costs and low prices, high inventories and sluggish sales, small-scale production and large markets, and inverted domestic and international prices urgently need to be resolved. It is necessary to adapt to new situations and requirements, adhere to a problem-oriented approach, adjust the focus of work, deepen the supply-side structural reform in agriculture, accelerate the cultivation of new driving forces for agricultural and rural development, and create a new situation for agricultural modernization.

　　To advance the supply-side structural reform in agriculture, we must, on the basis of ensuring national food security, closely focus on changes in market demand, take increasing farmers' income and ensuring effective supply as the main goals, take improving the quality of agricultural supply as the main direction of attack, and take institutional reform and mechanism innovation as the fundamental approach. Optimize the agricultural industrial system, production system, and operation system, improve land output rate, resource utilization rate, and labor productivity, and promote the transformation of agricultural and rural development from excessive reliance on resource consumption and mainly meeting quantitative needs to pursuing green, ecological sustainability and paying more attention to meeting qualitative needs.

　　Promoting the supply-side structural reform in agriculture is a long-term process, and there are many major challenges in handling the relationship between government and market and coordinating the interests of all parties. We must face difficulties and challenges directly, unswervingly advance reforms, bravely bear the pains of reform, strive to reduce the costs of reform, actively prevent reform risks, and ensure that grain production capacity does not decrease, that the momentum of farmers' income increase does not reverse, and that rural stability is not compromised.

　　In 2017, agricultural and rural work will fully implement the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Plenary Sessions of the 18th Central Committee, be guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "Three Represents," and the Scientific Outlook on Development, and thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches and the new concepts, ideas, and strategies for governing the country and managing state affairs. Adhere to the new development concept, coordinate the promotion of agricultural modernization and new urbanization, take the promotion of supply-side structural reform in agriculture as the main line, focus on increasing agricultural efficiency, farmers' income, and rural greenery, strengthen technological innovation leadership, accelerate the pace of structural adjustment, increase the intensity of rural reforms, improve the comprehensive efficiency and competitiveness of agriculture, promote new progress in the construction of socialist new rural areas, and strive to make greater strides in the construction of a comprehensive well-off society in rural areas.

　　I. Optimize the product industrial structure and focus on promoting the improvement of quality and efficiency in agriculture

　　1. Comprehensively adjust the planting structure of grain, economic crops, and feed. In accordance with the requirements of stabilizing grain production, optimizing economic crops, and expanding feed production, accelerate the construction of a ternary planting structure that coordinates the development of grain, economic crops, and feed. For grain crops, stabilize the production of rice and wheat, ensure absolute food security, focus on developing high-quality rice and strong and weak gluten wheat, continue to reduce grain maize in non-advantageous areas, and increase high-quality edible soybeans, potatoes, miscellaneous grains, and miscellaneous beans. For economic crops, optimize the variety quality and regional layout, consolidate the production of cotton, oil crops, and sugar crops in major producing areas, and promote the increase in value and efficiency of horticultural crops. For feed crops, expand the planting area, develop high-quality forage such as silage maize and alfalfa, and vigorously cultivate a modern forage industry system. Accelerate the structural adjustment of the northern agro-pastoral interlaced zone to form a planting structure that combines raising with planting, integrates animal husbandry, forestry, and agriculture, and combines grass, fruits, and vegetables. Continue to carry out pilot programs for grain-to-feed and grain-to-bean subsidies.

　　2. Develop large-scale and efficient animal husbandry. Stabilize pig production, optimize the regional layout of pig farming in southern water network areas, and guide production capacity to areas with large environmental capacity and major maize producing areas. Accelerate breed improvement and vigorously develop cattle and sheep and other herbivorous livestock farming. Comprehensively revitalize the dairy industry, focusing on supporting moderately scaled family farms, guiding the expansion of fresh milk consumption, strictly enforcing the labeling system for reconstituted milk, and cultivating high-quality domestic brands. Reasonably determine the scale of aquaculture in inland waters such as lakes and reservoirs, and promote the reduction in quantity and increase in efficiency of aquaculture. Promote integrated rice-fish farming and aquaculture in low-lying saline-alkali land. Improve the limits on fishing, fishing bans, and areas in rivers, lakes, and seas, and take the lead in achieving a complete ban on fishing in aquatic biological protection areas in the Yangtze River Basin. Scientifically and orderly develop tidal flat resources. Support intensive and healthy offshore aquaculture, develop modern marine ranches, strengthen regional coordinated protection, and reasonably control offshore fishing. Actively develop distant-water fisheries. Establish a total quantity management system for marine fishery resources, regulate various types of marine use activities for fisheries, support fishermen in reducing ships and transferring industries.

　　3. Develop and strengthen advantageous and characteristic industries. Implement an action plan to improve the quality and efficiency of advantageous and characteristic agriculture, promote the upgrading of industries such as miscellaneous grains and beans, vegetables and melons, tea and sericulture, flowers and seedlings, edible fungi, Chinese medicinal materials, and characteristic animal husbandry, and turn local specialties and small varieties into large industries that drive farmers' income growth. Vigorously develop characteristic economic forests such as woody oil crops, valuable tree species timber forests, flowers, bamboo and rattan, forest foods, and other green industries. Implement the construction project for forest ecological logo products. Carry out standardized production demonstrations of characteristic agricultural products, and build a number of geographical indication agricultural products and origin protection bases. Promote the construction of regional public brands for agricultural products, support local areas in building regional characteristic brands based on advantageous enterprises and industry associations, and introduce modern elements to transform and upgrade traditional famous and high-quality brands.

　　4. Further optimize the regional layout of agriculture. Based on the planning of main functional areas and the layout of advantageous agricultural products, scientifically and reasonably delineate functional areas for the production of rice, wheat, and maize grains and protected areas for the production of important agricultural products such as soybeans, cotton, rapeseed, sugarcane, and natural rubber. All land plots in functional areas and protected areas will be registered, mapped, and stored in the database to achieve information-based and precise management. Urgently study and formulate construction standards for functional areas and protected areas, improve incentive mechanisms and support policies, and implement the responsibilities of construction and management entities at all levels. Formulate a construction plan for advantageous areas of characteristic agricultural products, establish evaluation standards and technical support systems, and encourage various places to strive to create advantageous areas for characteristic agricultural products such as horticultural products, livestock products, aquatic products, and forest products.

　　5. Comprehensively enhance the quality of agricultural products and food safety levels. Adhere to the principle of quality-oriented agriculture, implement the agricultural standardization strategy, highlight the orientation of high quality, safety, and green development, and improve the agricultural product quality and food safety standards system. Support new agricultural business entities in applying for "Three Products and One Standard" certification, promote the facilitation of agricultural product trademark registration, and strengthen brand protection. Guide enterprises to obtain international organic agricultural product certification and accelerate the improvement of the authority and influence of domestic green and organic agricultural product certification. Effectively strengthen the protection of the origin environment and source governance, implement good agricultural production practices, promote the production record account system, and strictly enforce relevant regulations on the production, sales, and use of agricultural inputs. Carry out in-depth investigations into the exceeding of pesticide and veterinary drug residues, especially the abuse of antibiotics in the livestock industry, and severely crack down on behaviors such as the illegal and excessive use of pesticides and veterinary drugs, illegal addition, and exceeding the scope and limit of food additives. Improve the regulatory system for agricultural product quality and food safety, strengthen risk-based management and local responsibilities, and increase the intensity of sampling and monitoring. Establish a comprehensive service platform for traceability and supervision that is fully traceable and interconnected. Encourage production and operation entities to purchase food safety liability insurance. Expedite the revision of the Agricultural Product Quality Safety Law.

　　6. Actively develop moderately scaled operations. Vigorously cultivate new agricultural business entities and service entities, and accelerate the development of land transfer-type and service-driven scaled operations through various methods such as transfer of operating rights, shareholding cooperation, contracted farming, and land entrustment. Actively guide farmers, on a voluntary basis, to achieve contiguous planting per household through methods such as land exchange within villages and groups. Improve the identification methods for family farms and support family farms of moderate scale. Strengthen the standardized construction of farmer cooperatives and actively develop integrated cooperation in production, supply and marketing, and credit. Summarize and promote the pilot experience of comprehensive socialization services for agricultural production throughout the process, and support the cultivation of business service organizations such as agricultural machinery operations, farmland irrigation and drainage, unified pest and disease control, and drying and storage. Support the supply and marketing, postal, and agricultural machinery systems in playing the role of a comprehensive service platform for agriculture, and promote the transformation of traditional agricultural materials distribution outlets into modern agricultural materials comprehensive service providers. Encourage local governments to explore land transfer performance guarantee insurance. Study the establishment of an evaluation index system for moderately scaled agricultural operations to guide the healthy development of scaled operations.

　　7. Construct modern agricultural industrial parks. Based on large-scale planting and breeding bases, relying on the leading role of agricultural industrialization enterprises, gathering modern production factors, and constructing modern agricultural industrial parks with "production, processing, and technology," to give full play to the functions of technology integration, industrial integration, entrepreneurial platforms, and core radiation. Scientifically formulate industrial park plans and comprehensively plan production, processing, logistics, research and development, demonstration, and service functional areas. Encourage local governments to comprehensively use funds from related projects such as high-standard farmland construction, comprehensive agricultural development, and the development of modern agricultural production to concentrate on the construction of industrial park infrastructure and supporting service systems. Attract leading enterprises and research institutions to construct and operate industrial parks, develop facility agriculture, precision agriculture, deep processing, and modern marketing, drive new agricultural business entities and farmers to achieve specialized, standardized, and intensive production, and promote the upgrading of all aspects of agriculture and the value-added of the entire chain. Encourage farmers and returned and rural personnel to participate in construction and share benefits through various methods such as order agriculture, shareholding cooperation, and in-park entrepreneurship and employment.

　　8. Create a favorable international trade environment for agricultural products. Make comprehensive use of international markets, optimize the domestic agricultural product supply structure, and improve the fair competition environment for the import of agricultural products. Improve the laws and regulations on anti-subsidy, anti-dumping, and safeguard measures for agricultural product trade, and conduct trade remedy investigations on imported agricultural products in accordance with the law. Encourage the expansion of exports of advantageous agricultural products and increase the intensity of overseas promotion. Strengthen agricultural external cooperation and promote the "going global" of agriculture. Focusing on countries and regions along the Belt and Road and surrounding areas, support agricultural enterprises in conducting transnational operations, establishing overseas production bases and processing, warehousing, and logistics facilities, and cultivating large enterprises and groups with international competitiveness. Actively participate in the formulation and revision of international trade rules and international standards, and promote the mutual recognition of agricultural product certification results. Carry out in-depth comprehensive governance of agricultural product smuggling and implement special crackdown actions.

　　II. Promote green production methods and enhance the sustainable development capacity of agriculture

　　9. Promote clean agricultural production. Deepen the action plan for zero growth of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, carry out pilot programs for replacing chemical fertilizers with organic fertilizers, and promote cost reduction and efficiency increase in agriculture. Establish and improve the production supervision and product traceability system for the chemical fertilizer and pesticide industry, and strictly manage industry access. Vigorously promote efficient and ecological circular planting and breeding models, accelerate the centralized treatment of livestock and poultry manure, and promote the healthy development of large-scale biogas. Promote pilot programs for the resource utilization of agricultural waste at the county level and explore the establishment of sustainable operation and management mechanisms. Encourage local governments to increase support for the comprehensive utilization of crop straw and improve the subsidy mechanism for diversified straw utilization. Continue to carry out pilot demonstrations of clean production of plastic film. Promote the creation of national demonstration areas for sustainable agricultural development.

　　10. Implement large-scale agricultural water-saving projects. Take agricultural water conservation as a directional and strategic matter, and accelerate the improvement of the national policy system supporting agricultural water conservation. Increase the intensity of water-saving transformation and construction of large and medium-sized irrigation and drainage backbone projects, simultaneously improve farmland water-saving facilities, and construct modern irrigation areas. Vigorously implement regional large-scale high-efficiency water-saving irrigation actions and concentrate on building a number of high-efficiency water-saving irrigation projects. Steadily promote the construction of high-efficiency water-saving irrigation forage land in pastoral areas and strictly restrict the extraction of groundwater for irrigation of artificial pastures in ecologically fragile areas. Establish and improve the technical and product standards system for agricultural water conservation. Accelerate the development of complete, series-matched, and reliable water-saving irrigation technologies and products, vigorously popularize water-saving irrigation technologies such as sprinkler irrigation and drip irrigation, and increase the promotion of agricultural water-saving technologies such as water-fertilizer integration. Comprehensively promote the comprehensive reform of agricultural water prices, implement the main responsibilities of local governments, and accelerate the establishment of a reasonable water price formation mechanism and a water-saving incentive mechanism. Comprehensively implement water quota management and conduct assessments of the construction of county-level water-saving societies. Implement the third national water resources survey and evaluation.

　　11. Concentratedly govern prominent issues in the agricultural environment. Implement planning for the rest and recuperation of cultivated land, grasslands, and rivers and lakes. Conduct a detailed investigation of soil pollution conditions, deeply implement the soil pollution prevention and control action plan, and continue to carry out pilot programs for the remediation of heavy metal-contaminated cultivated land and the adjustment of planting structures. Expand the pilot scope of comprehensive governance of agricultural non-point source pollution. Increase support for the protection of black soil in Northeast China. Promote pilot programs for the crop rotation and fallow system and reasonably set subsidy standards. Support local governments in focusing on soil improvement for facility agriculture and increasing soil organic matter. Expand the scope of comprehensive governance of groundwater overdraft areas in North China. Accelerate the implementation progress of the new round of returning farmland to forests and grasslands. After the expiration of the subsidy policy period for the previous round of returning farmland to forests, the qualified returned farmland to ecological forests will be included in the central and local forest ecological benefit compensation scope respectively. Continue to implement the returning grazing land to grassland project. Promote the governance of cultivated grasslands in the northern agricultural and pastoral interlaced zone. Implement wetland protection and restoration projects.

　　12. Strengthen the construction of major ecological projects. Promote the overall protection, systematic restoration, and comprehensive governance of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, and lakes, and accelerate the construction of a national ecological security barrier. Comprehensively promote large-scale land greening actions. Launch major ecological restoration projects in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and implement the requirements of "jointly grasping large-scale protection and not engaging in large-scale development." Continue to implement key forestry ecological projects and promote the construction of forest quality precision improvement projects. Improve the subsidy policy for the complete cessation of commercial logging of natural forests. Accelerate the construction of national parks. Strengthen the construction of national reserve forest bases. Promote the ban and restoration and governance of desertified land. Increase the protection of wildlife and rare germplasm resources, and promote the rescue protection of endangered wildlife and the construction of nature reserves. Strengthen the comprehensive governance of soil erosion and water ecological restoration in key areas, and continue to carry out the construction of river and lake water system connectivity projects.

　　III. Develop new industries and new formats, and expand the value chain of agricultural industries

　　13. Vigorously develop the rural leisure tourism industry. Give full play to the unique advantages of the rich material and intangible resources in rural areas, and use models such as "tourism" and "ecological" to promote the deep integration of agriculture, forestry, tourism, education, culture, and health preservation industries. Enrich the types and products of rural tourism, create various themed rural tourism destinations and boutique routes, and develop rural-style homestays and health-care bases. Encourage rural collective economic organizations to establish rural tourism cooperatives or jointly run rural tourism enterprises with social capital. Raise construction funds through multiple channels, vigorously improve the public service facilities for leisure agriculture, rural tourism, and forest health preservation, and prioritize broadband full coverage in key villages. Improve industry standards for leisure agriculture and rural tourism, and establish and improve regulatory norms for food safety, fire safety, and environmental protection. Support the protection of traditional villages, maintain the overall appearance of ethnic minority villages, and implement contiguous protection and moderate development in areas with conditions.

　　14. Promote the development of rural e-commerce. Promote the comprehensive integration of new agricultural operators, processing and distribution enterprises, and e-commerce enterprises, and promote the interactive development of online and offline. Accelerate the establishment and improvement of a standard system suitable for agricultural product e-commerce development. Support the construction of agricultural product e-commerce platforms and rural e-commerce service sites. Promote interoperability between commerce, supply and marketing, postal services, and e-commerce, strengthen the construction of the logistics system from villages to townships, and implement the express delivery to rural areas project. Deeply implement the comprehensive demonstration project of e-commerce into rural areas. Encourage localities to develop e-commerce industrial parks in a standardized manner, focusing on functions such as Brand promotion, logistics distribution, talent cultivation, Powered by, and quality and safety. Fully implement the project of information into villages and households, and conduct province-wide demonstration promotion. Improve the national backbone network for agricultural product circulation, accelerate the construction of a public welfare agricultural product market system, strengthen the construction of the cold chain logistics infrastructure network such as the origin pre-cooling of agricultural products, and improve the direct supply and sales system for fresh agricultural products. Promote the "Internet +" modern agriculture action.

　　15. Accelerate the development of the modern food industry. Guide processing enterprises to concentrate in major producing areas, advantageous producing areas, and industrial parks, and create food processing industrial clusters in advantageous agricultural product producing areas. Increase support for technological transformation in the food processing industry and develop production and processing equipment with independent intellectual property rights. Encourage food companies to establish R&D institutions and develop new products that meet market demand around "original brands." Implement the action plan to improve the staple food processing industry, actively promote the industrialized and scaled production of traditional staple foods, and vigorously develop convenience foods, leisure foods, frozen foods, and potato staple food products. Strengthen the development and application of new food raw materials and food-medicine homologous foods. Vigorously promote production models such as "production base-central kitchen-catering store" and "production base-processing enterprise-supermarket sales." Strengthen research on modern biological and nutritional enhancement technologies, and explore and develop foods with health functions. Improve the registration and filing system for health foods, foods for special medical purposes, and infant formula. Improve the subsidy policy for the initial processing of agricultural products at Origin.

　　16. Cultivate livable and prosperous characteristic towns and villages. Based on industries with foundations, characteristics, and potential, construct a number of characteristic towns and villages that integrate agricultural, cultural, and tourism "three in one," improve production, life, and ecological conditions simultaneously, and deeply integrate the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. Support local governments in strengthening the construction of industrial support, infrastructure, public services, and environmental appearance in characteristic towns and villages. Create an upgraded version of "one village, one product," developing specialized villages with unique characteristics. Support the construction of rural areas with farmers' cooperatives as the main body, allowing farmers to fully participate and benefit, integrating circular agriculture, creative agriculture, and agricultural experience into a rural complex, and conducting pilot demonstrations through channels such as agricultural comprehensive development and rural comprehensive reform transfer payments. Deeply implement the pilot demonstration project for rural industrial integration development and support the construction of a number of rural industrial integration development demonstration parks.

　　IV. Strengthen technological innovation to drive and lead the accelerated development of modern agriculture

　　17. Strengthen agricultural scientific research and development. Adapt to the new requirements of agricultural transformation and structural adjustment, and adjust the direction and priorities of agricultural scientific and technological innovation. Integrate scientific and technological innovation resources, improve the national agricultural scientific and technological innovation system and the modern agricultural industrial technology system, establish a number of modern agricultural industrial scientific and technological innovation centers and agricultural scientific and technological innovation alliances, and promote the construction of resource open sharing and service platforms and bases. Strengthen basic and frontier research in agricultural science and technology, and enhance original innovation capabilities. Construct national agricultural high-tech industrial development zones. Increase efforts to implement major projects for independent innovation in the seed industry and joint research on fine varieties of major crops, and accelerate the breeding of new varieties suitable for mechanized production, high-quality, high-yield, multi-resistant, and widely adaptable varieties. Strengthen scientific research and development in the improvement of low-and medium-yield fields, economic crops, grass-eating animal husbandry, marine ranching, smart agriculture, deep processing of agricultural and forestry products, warehousing and logistics. Accelerate the research and development of agricultural machinery equipment suitable for hilly and mountainous areas, facility agriculture, and livestock and poultry and aquatic product breeding, and improve the independent research and development capabilities of core agricultural machinery components. Support local governments in carrying out scientific research and development of characteristic and advantageous industries.

　　18. Strengthen agricultural technology promotion. Innovate public agricultural technology extension service methods, introduce project management mechanisms, promote government procurement of services, and support the broad participation of various social forces in agricultural technology promotion. Encourage local governments to establish agricultural science, education, production, research, and education integrated agricultural technology promotion alliances, and support agricultural technology extension personnel in conducting technical cooperation with family farms, farmers' cooperatives, and leading enterprises. Deeply promote the creation of green, high-yield, and high-efficiency, focusing on the promotion of high-quality and specialized varieties and technologies and models for reducing costs and consumption and recycling. Implement the smart agriculture project, and promote the experimental demonstration of the agricultural Internet of Things and the intelligent upgrading of agricultural equipment. Develop smart meteorology and improve the monitoring, forecasting, and early warning levels of meteorological disasters. Deeply promote the system of science and technology special envoys and build a number of "Star Creation Spaces." Strengthen the construction of rural science and technology public service.

　　19. Improve the incentive mechanism for agricultural science and technology innovation. Accelerate the implementation of regulations on the conversion of scientific and technological achievements, the part-time remuneration of scientific and technological personnel, etc. Support agricultural scientific and technological innovation through methods such as "post-subsidies." Implement the training plan for outstanding talents in agricultural research, and deepen the pilot reform of scientific research achievement rights. Develop new agricultural technology research and development, achievement transformation, and industrial incubation institutions oriented to the market. Improve the basic research support methods that comply with the laws of agricultural science and technology innovation, and establish a differentiated agricultural science and technology evaluation system. Strengthen the protection and application of agricultural intellectual property rights.

　　20. Improve the construction level of agricultural science and technology parks. Scientifically formulate park plans, highlight the functions of scientific and technological innovation, research and development applications, experimental demonstrations, scientific and technological services and training, and construct agricultural science and technology achievement transformation centers, scientific and technological personnel entrepreneurship platforms, and high-tech industrial incubation bases to create a modern agricultural innovation highland. Support park-industry-university-research cooperation in establishing various research institutions, testing and testing centers, academician and expert workstations, and technology transaction institutions, etc., scientific research and service platforms. Support park enterprises and research institutions to conduct research and development and promotion of key common technologies for characteristic and advantageous industries based on regional realities. Improve the management methods and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms of national agricultural science and technology parks.

　　21. Develop rural HR. Focusing on the cultivation of new professional farmers and the improvement of the occupational skills of rural workers, integrate training funds from various channels, and establish a training mechanism led by the government, coordinated by various departments, planned in a unified manner, and driven by industries. Explore methods such as government procurement of services, give play to the role of enterprise training entities, and improve the pertinence and effectiveness of vocational skills training for rural workers. Optimize the structure of agricultural workers, deeply promote the training plan for modern young farm owners and forest farm owners, and the training plan for leaders of new agricultural business entities, explore the cultivation of agricultural professional managers, and cultivate new farmers who meet the needs of modern agricultural development. Encourage colleges and universities, vocational schools to offer related majors and courses such as rural planning and construction, and rural residential design, cultivate a group of professionals, and support a group of rural craftsmen.

　　V. Make up for the shortcomings in agriculture and rural areas, and consolidate the foundation for shared rural development

　　22. Continuously strengthen the basic construction of farmland. Deeply implement the strategy of storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology, strictly adhere to the red line of cultivated land, and protect and optimize grain production capacity. Fully implement special protection policies and measures for permanent basic farmland, implement actions to protect and improve cultivated land quality, and continuously promote the transformation of low- and medium-yield farmland. Accelerate the construction of high-standard farmland and improve construction quality. In areas with conditions, supporting facilities such as drying yards, drying facilities, machinery warehouses, and organic fertilizer accumulation can be included in the scope of high-standard farmland construction. Guide financial institutions to provide credit support for the construction of high-standard farmland. Allow the increase in cultivated land obtained through land consolidation to be used as an indicator for supplementing cultivated land in the balance of occupation and compensation within the province, and obtain the benefits of indicator adjustment according to regulations or contract agreements. Promote the construction of major water conservancy projects, promptly repair agricultural facilities and water conservancy projects damaged by water disasters, strengthen the weak links of water conservancy and "five small water conservancy" projects. Promote the conversion of rural machine wells from oil to electricity in plain areas as appropriate.

　　23. Deeply carry out rural human settlements environment governance and the construction of beautiful and livable villages. Promote special actions for the governance of rural domestic waste, promote garbage classification and resource utilization, select appropriate models to carry out the governance of rural domestic sewage, and increase efforts to support the comprehensive governance and toilet renovation of concentrated and contiguous rural areas. Carry out a centralized investigation and rectification campaign for the indiscriminate dumping of urban and rural garbage. Implement rural new energy actions, promote photovoltaic power generation, and gradually expand the supply of rural electricity, gas, and clean coal. Accelerate the revision of regulations on the planning, construction, and management of villages and towns, and vigorously promote the preparation of county-level rural construction plans. Promote architectural design to rural areas and carry out demonstration projects for rural architecture. Deeply carry out the work of building, managing, protecting, and operating rural roads, deepen the reform of the rural road management and maintenance system, and actively promote the integration of urban and rural transportation. Implement the consolidation and improvement project for rural drinking water safety and the new round of renovation and upgrading project for rural power grids. Improve rural dilapidated house renovation policies, improve subsidy standards, and concentrate on supporting key groups such as registered poor households, low-income households, scattered subsistence allowance recipients, and families of poor disabled people. Carry out safety hazard investigation and governance work in rural areas in aspects such as dry wells, ponds, drinking water, self-built houses, passenger transport, and school buses. Promote the construction of fiber optic networks to villages and accelerate the realization of full 4G network coverage in rural areas. Promote direct mail delivery to administrative villages. Carry out demonstration and creation of rural human settlements environment and beautiful and livable villages. Strengthen the construction of rural public cultural service systems, coordinate the implementation of key cultural benefit projects for the people, improve basic comprehensive cultural service facilities, and carry out extensive activities to deliver local operas to rural areas. Support the protection of important agricultural cultural heritage.

　　24. Improve the level of basic public services in rural areas. Fully implement the mechanism for ensuring compulsory education funding that is unified in urban and rural areas and focuses on rural areas, and strengthen the construction of the rural teacher team. Continue to improve the level of fund-raising for the basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents, accelerate the integration of the urban and rural residents' medical insurance system, and promote the national networking and cross-regional medical treatment settlement of basic medical insurance. Strengthen the training of rural grassroots health personnel. Improve the method for identifying recipients of rural low-income subsidies and scientifically and rationally determine the standards for rural low-income subsidies. Solidly promote the effective linkage between the rural low-income subsidy system and poverty alleviation policies, and do a good job in providing a safety net for rural low-income households. Improve the funding and guarantee mechanisms for urban and rural residents' endowment insurance. Improve the care service system for left-behind children and women, the elderly, and the disabled in rural areas.

　　25. Solidly advance the fight against poverty. Further promote the implementation of various policies and measures for targeted poverty alleviation to ensure that more than 10 million people will be lifted out of poverty in 2017. Deeply advance major poverty alleviation projects, strengthen the support and guarantee system for poverty alleviation, make unified arrangements for the use of poverty alleviation resources, pay attention to improving the quality of poverty alleviation, stimulate the initiative and enthusiasm of the poor population to get rid of poverty and become rich, and establish and improve a long-term mechanism for stable poverty alleviation. Strengthen the supervision and management of poverty alleviation funds, and integrate agricultural funds in all poverty-stricken counties. Strictly implement the systems of assessment, supervision, and inspection and supervision of poverty alleviation efforts, and fully implement responsibilities. Resolutely stop formalism in poverty alleviation work, avoid adding layers upon layers of requirements, strictly prohibit fabrication of false information, and strive for the effectiveness of the fight against poverty.

　　VI. Increase the intensity of rural reforms and activate the endogenous development momentum of agriculture and rural areas

　　26. Deepen the reform of the Price formation mechanism and the collection and storage system for important agricultural products such as grain. Adhere to and improve the minimum purchase Price policy for rice and wheat, reasonably adjust the minimum purchase Price level, and form a reasonable Price ratio. Resolutely promote the reform of market Price and subsidy separation for corn, improve the producer subsidy system, encourage multiple market entities to enter the market for acquisition, and prevent difficulties in selling grain. Adopt comprehensive measures to promote feed conversion and processing conversion, explore consumer demand through multiple channels, and accelerate the digestion of corn and other inventories. Adjust and improve the target Price policy for Xinjiang cotton and improve the subsidy method. Adjust the target Price policy for soybeans. Scientifically determine the scale of national reserves for important agricultural products such as grain, optimize the variety structure and regional layout of central reserve grain, reform and improve the management system for central reserve grain, give full play to the policy functions, strictly supervise and manage policy grain, strictly prevent losses, and ensure storage safety. Support family farms and farmers' cooperatives in scientific grain storage.

　　27. Improve the agricultural subsidy system. Further improve the orientation and accuracy of agricultural subsidy policies, focusing on supporting major production areas, moderately scaled operations, farmers' incomes, and green ecology. Deeply promote the reform of the "three subsidies" system in agriculture. Improve the benefit compensation mechanism for major grain-producing areas, stabilize the reward policy for major grain-producing counties, adjust the scope of use of reward funds for major grain-producing provinces, and revitalize the grain risk fund. Improve the policy for subsidies for agricultural machinery purchases, and increase the subsidy for machinery needed for the full mechanization of grain, cotton, oil, sugar, and fodder production. Deeply implement a new round of grassland ecological protection subsidy and reward policies. Improve forestry subsidy policies and expand the implementation scope of wetland ecological benefit compensation.

　　28. Reform the mechanism for fiscal investment in agriculture. Adhere to the principle of giving priority to agriculture and rural areas in fiscal expenditures, ensure that investment in agriculture and rural areas increases appropriately, focus on optimizing the investment structure, innovate the methods of use, and improve the efficiency of supporting agriculture. Fixed asset investment will continue to tilt towards agriculture and rural areas. Give play to the guiding role of planning, and promote the integration of agricultural funds in multiple levels and forms. Promote the reform of the source integration of special transfer payment budget preparation, and explore the implementation of the "major special project task list" management method. Innovate the methods of using fiscal funds, promote cooperation between the government and social capital, implement rewards in lieu of subsidies and interest subsidies, support the establishment of guarantee mechanisms, encourage local governments to establish risk compensation funds, and leverage more financial and social capital into agriculture and rural areas. Establish and improve a national agricultural credit guarantee system, promote the extension of provincial credit guarantee institutions to cities and counties, support qualified cities and counties to establish guarantee institutions as soon as possible, and achieve substantive operation. Broaden the financing channels for agricultural and rural infrastructure, and support social capital to participate in the construction and operation of forestry, water conservancy, and agricultural reclamation projects through franchise operation, equity participation, and controlling stakes. Encourage local governments and social capital to set up various agricultural and rural development investment funds. Increase the support of local government bonds for rural infrastructure construction. Under the premise of complying with relevant laws and regulations, explore market-based methods to raise funds for agricultural and rural construction. Study and formulate specific opinions on guiding and regulating the investment of industrial and commercial capital in agriculture and rural areas. For various small projects supported by the finance at all levels, prioritize rural collective economic organizations and farmer cooperatives as the construction and management entities, strengthen farmer participation and full supervision.

　　29. Accelerate rural financial innovation. Strengthen incentive and constraint mechanisms to ensure sustained growth in agricultural loans. Support financial institutions in increasing their county-level branches and appropriately delegating business approval authority to county-level branches. For financial institutions with a large volume of agricultural business, further improve differentiated assessment methods. Implement incentive policies for increased agricultural loans. Support rural commercial banks, rural cooperative banks, and village banks and other small and medium-sized rural financial institutions to be based in counties and increase their efforts to serve agriculture and rural areas, and improve internal control and risk management systems. Regulate the development of rural mutual aid organizations, and strictly implement regulatory entities and responsibilities. Conduct pilot programs for internal credit cooperation among farmer cooperatives and encourage the development of agricultural mutual insurance. Support the State Development Bank in innovating its credit lending methods. Improve the risk compensation mechanism and capital supplement system of the Agricultural Development Bank, and increase credit support for the entry of multiple market players into grain acquisition. Deepen the reform of the Agricultural Bank's agricultural and rural financial business department, and implement preferential deposit reserve ratios for qualified county-level institutions. Accelerate the improvement of the Postal Savings Bank's agricultural and rural financial business department's operation mechanism and study the provision of relevant preferential policies. Expedite the development of a reform plan for provincial associations of rural credit cooperatives. Optimize the establishment model of village banks and improve county-level coverage. Encourage financial institutions to actively use internet technology to provide small-value deposits and loans, payment settlements, and insurance and other financial services to agricultural business entities. Promote the creation of credit users, credit villages, and credit towns. Support financial institutions in conducting order financing and accounts receivable financing business suitable for new agricultural business entities. Deeply promote pilot programs for mortgages using the operating rights of contracted land and the property rights of farmer housing, and explore the development of mortgage loan business for large agricultural machinery and agricultural production facilities. Accelerate the identification of ownership of various rural resources and assets, and promote the networking and sharing of departmental ownership information with banking financial institutions. Continuously promote the expansion of coverage, increased varieties, and improved standards of agricultural insurance, develop insurance products that meet the needs of new agricultural business entities, and adopt a reward-for-subsidy approach to support local governments in developing characteristic agricultural product insurance. Encourage local governments to raise funds through multiple channels to support the expansion of pilot programs for agricultural product price index insurance. Explore the establishment of an agricultural product income insurance system. Support eligible agricultural enterprises in listing for financing, issuing bonds, and mergers and acquisitions. On the premise of a sound risk prevention mechanism, improve the collaborative model between finance and agriculture and rural areas. Encourage financial institutions to issue special financial bonds for agriculture and rural areas. Expand cooperation between banks and insurance companies and develop guarantee insurance loan products. Deeply promote the development of agricultural futures and options markets, actively guide agricultural enterprises to use futures and options to manage market risks, and steadily expand the pilot program for “insurance futures.” Severely crack down on illegal fundraising and financial fraud in rural areas. Actively promote rural financial legislation.

　　30. Deepen the reform of the rural collective ownership system. Implement the “three-rights separation” approach of collective ownership of rural land, farmer contracting rights, and land management rights. Accelerate the confirmation of rights, registration, and issuance of certificates for rural contracted land, and expand the scope of pilot programs for the entire province. Coordinate and comprehensively promote pilot programs for rural land acquisition, the entry of collectively-owned commercial construction land into the market, and the reform of the homestead system. Fully accelerate the confirmation of rights, registration, and issuance of certificates for rural homesteads and collectively-owned construction land in a ‘land and housing combined’ manner. Carefully summarize the experiences of pilot programs for rural homestead system reform; on the premise of fully guaranteeing the usufructuary rights of farmers’ homesteads and preventing encroachment and control by external capital, implement the collective ownership of homesteads, maintain the occupancy and use rights of homesteads legally obtained by farmers, and explore ways for rural collective organizations to revitalize the use of idle farm houses and homesteads through leasing and cooperation to increase farmers’ property income. Allow local governments to raise funds through multiple channels and use them, in accordance with regulations, for compensation to farmers who voluntarily withdraw from contracted land and homesteads upon moving to cities. Expedite the development of relevant laws for rural collective economic organizations and grant them legal person status. Conduct a comprehensive inventory of rural collective assets. Steadily and orderly promote the reform of the shareholding cooperative system for rural collective commercial assets from a few points to the whole area, confirm membership status, quantify commercial assets, and guarantee the rights of farmers to collective assets. Explore effective ways to develop the collective economy based on actual situations, encourage local governments to carry out reforms such as transforming resources into assets, funds into equity, and farmers into shareholders, and enhance the vitality and strength of collective economic development. Develop tax policies to support the reform of the rural collective ownership system. Deepen the reform of the collective forest ownership system. Accelerate the development of water rights and water markets, and promote the confirmation of rights and market transactions of water resource usage rights. Accelerate the construction of rural property rights transaction markets.

　　31. Explore the establishment of a land guarantee mechanism for agricultural and rural development. Optimize the layout of urban and rural construction land and reasonably allocate land for various industries in agriculture and rural areas. Improve the mechanism for guaranteeing new construction land, and allocate a certain proportion of the annual new construction land plan indicators to support the development of new industries and new formats in rural areas. Accelerate the development of village-level land use plans. On the premise of controlling the total amount of rural construction land and not occupying permanent basic farmland, increase efforts to revitalize the existing stock of rural construction land. Allow the construction land saved through village improvement and homestead consolidation to be used in equity investment and joint ventures, focusing on supporting industries such as rural leisure tourism and elderly care and the integrated development of the three industries in rural areas, and strictly prohibit illegal and irregular real estate development or the construction of private villas and clubs. Improve agricultural land policies and actively support the construction of cold chain facilities, primary processing, leisure picking, and storage for agricultural products. Improve the management methods for cultivated land compensation and strictly implement the responsibilities for cultivated land compensation and exploration of national coordination for supplementing cultivated land in resource-scarce provinces.

　　32. Improve the system for the transfer of agricultural labor and employment and rural entrepreneurship and innovation. Improve the system for equal employment of urban and rural workers, improve the service system for the transfer of agricultural labor and employment, encourage employment through multiple channels, effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of migrant workers, and focus on solving prominent problems faced by the new generation and migrant workers with occupational diseases. Support migrant workers returning to their hometowns to start businesses and drive the development of modern agriculture and new industries and formats in rural areas. Encourage college graduates, entrepreneurs, agricultural science and technology personnel, and returned overseas students and other types of talent to return to their hometowns and villages to start businesses and innovate, and introduce modern technology, production methods, and business models into rural areas. Integrate and implement preferential policies in terms of market access, fiscal and tax policies, financial services, land and electricity use, entrepreneurship training, and social security to support rural entrepreneurship and innovation. Encourage local governments to establish returning entrepreneur parks, entrepreneurship incubation bases, and maker service platforms, open open service windows, and provide one-stop services.

　　33. Coordinate and promote reforms in various aspects of rural areas. Continue to deepen the comprehensive reform of supply and marketing cooperatives and enhance their ability to serve agriculture. Steadily promote the reform of state-owned forest areas and state-owned forest farms and accelerate their transformation and upgrading. Deepen the reform of state-owned farms and cultivate competitive modern agricultural enterprise groups. Deepen the reform of the administrative system of economically developed towns. Fully implement the river chief system and ensure the establishment of a four-level river chief system at the provincial, municipal, county, and township levels by the end of 2018. Expand the pilot program for water resource tax reform. Continue to strengthen the work of rural reform pilot zones and national modern agricultural demonstration zones. Carry out pilot programs and experiments on comprehensive rural reform. Respect the practical creations of farmers, encourage grass-roots initiatives, and improve incentive and error-correction mechanisms. Strengthen guidance and supervision of pilot programs and experiments on various types of rural reforms, and timely summarize replicable and generalizable experiences to promote the development of related policies and amendments to laws and regulations to provide legal guarantees for promoting the supply-side structural reform of agriculture. Do a solid job in the third national agricultural census.

　　All levels of Party committees and governments must always adhere to the unwavering principle of prioritizing the resolution of rural issues as a top priority for the entire Party. The focus on strengthening agriculture and rural areas must not waver, and efforts must not be reduced. We must ensure that our understanding and actions align with the central decisions and deployments, shifting the focus of agricultural and rural work to promoting structural reform of agricultural supply. This must be implemented in all aspects, including policy formulation, work deployment, financial allocation, and cadre allocation. We must thoroughly implement the spirit of the 18th Sixth Plenum of the 18th CPC Central Committee, strengthen our "four consciousnesses," and implement the requirements of comprehensive and strict Party governance in rural grassroots areas. We must strictly implement the responsibility system for rural grassroots Party building, adhering to the approach of comprehensive township-level and county-level improvements. We must strengthen rural grassroots Party organizations, standardize rural grassroots Party organization life, continuously rectify weak and scattered village Party organizations, select, manage, and utilize rural grassroots Party organization leaders effectively, implement county-level filing management for village Party secretaries, strengthen financial support for village-level organizational operations, and develop and expand village-level collective economies. We must solidly advance the work of strengthening Party building to promote poverty alleviation, giving full play to the important role of the first secretaries of village Party organizations. County and township disciplinary committees must take the investigation and handling of unhealthy trends and corrupt practices that harm the interests of the masses as their primary task. We must strengthen the supervision of farmer burdens. We must improve the effective implementation forms of village self-governance led by village Party organizations, strengthen the construction of village affairs supervision committees, improve practical and effective village affairs supervision mechanisms, and carry out pilot programs for village self-governance using villager groups and natural villages as basic units. We must deepen pilot programs for rural community construction. We must cultivate excellent family traditions, civilized village customs, and new rural elite culture that are in line with the socialist core values and are suitable for the construction of a new socialist countryside. We must improve the ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural literacy of farmers, strengthen rural work to correct unhealthy practices, and guide the masses to resist outdated customs such as extravagant weddings, funerals, and other interpersonal debts. We must strengthen rural social security management, legal publicity, education services, and letters and visits work. We must increase the publicity efforts for rural work, creating a good atmosphere for rural reform, development, and stability.

　　Let us unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, forge ahead with determination, overcome difficulties, and solidly advance the structural reform of agricultural supply, achieving outstanding results to greet the 19th National Congress of the CPC!