Implementing the strategy of rural revitalization and promoting the priority development of agriculture and rural areas (in-depth study and implementation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Tho

　　Implementing the rural revitalization strategy is a major decision-making arrangement made by the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, focusing on the overall cause of the party and the country, conforming to the yearning of hundreds of millions of farmers for a better life, and is a major historical task to build a well-off society and a socialist modern country in an all-round way, and is the general starting point for doing a good job in the work of agriculture, rural areas and farmers in the new era. Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have taken a series of major measures to accelerate rural revitalization. Recently, the Supreme Leader made important instructions, emphasizing the priority of implementing the rural revitalization strategy, insisting on the five-level secretary to grasp rural revitalization, and making rural revitalization a common action of the whole party and society, which further pointed out the direction and provided follow-up for doing a good job in rural revitalization.

　　Take the important exposition of the Supreme Leader General Secretary on the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy as the fundamental follow.

　　The CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core insists on solving the "three rural issues" as the top priority of the whole party’s work, and accelerates the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. China’s agricultural and rural development has achieved historic achievements and achieved historic changes, which has provided basic support for comprehensively creating a new situation in the cause of the party and the state. However, we should also be soberly aware that the current problem of insufficient development imbalance in China is most prominent in rural areas. Implementing the rural revitalization strategy is an inevitable requirement to solve the contradiction between the people’s growing needs for a better life and the unbalanced development, to achieve the goal of "two hundred years" and to achieve common prosperity for all people.

　　Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Supreme Leader has made a series of important speeches and instructions on implementing the rural revitalization strategy. After putting forward the strategy of rural revitalization for the first time in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the central rural work conference held at the end of last year systematically explained the great significance and profound connotation of implementing the strategy of rural revitalization, and clearly pointed out that we should take the road of rural revitalization in Socialism with Chinese characteristics. When he participated in the deliberation of the Shandong delegation during the National People’s Congress this year, he stressed the need to promote the revitalization of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology and organization; During the inspection tour in Hubei and Shandong, we further put forward clear requirements for rural revitalization. Recently, on the occasion of the national conference to promote the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, the top leader comrades made important instructions, stressing the need to adhere to the all-round rural revitalization, focus on key points, fill shortcomings, strengths and weaknesses, realize the revitalization of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology and organizations, and promote the all-round upgrading of agriculture, the all-round progress of rural areas and the all-round development of farmers. It is necessary to respect the wishes of farmers, stimulate their enthusiasm, initiative and creativity, activate the endogenous power of rural revitalization, and let farmers have more sense of gain, happiness and security in rural revitalization. We must persist in promoting revitalization through hard work, follow the law of rural development, plan first, promote by classification, increase investment, work hard, and promote rural revitalization to achieve new results. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader’s important exposition on the implementation of rural revitalization strategy is far-sighted, rich in connotation and clear in requirements, which is to do a good job in "agriculture, countryside and farmers" in the new era.The fundamental follow-up and action guide to work and promote rural revitalization.

　　General Secretary Supreme Leader’s important exposition on the implementation of rural revitalization strategy has profoundly answered a series of important theoretical and practical questions, such as why and how to revitalize the countryside. It is the comprehensive implementation of the new development concept in agricultural and rural work, the innovative practice of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Road in rural areas, and has epoch-making milestone significance in the development process of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" in China. To promote the rural revitalization strategy in the new era, we must thoroughly study and implement the important exposition of General Secretary of the Supreme Leader on doing a good job in "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", deeply understand the profound feelings of Comrade Supreme Leader on "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", accurately understand the strategic intention, overall requirements and key tasks of the central government in implementing the rural revitalization strategy, mobilize all social forces, and jointly promote the rural revitalization to make a good start.

　　Give priority to the implementation of rural revitalization strategy.

　　Comrade Supreme Leader emphasized that priority should be given to the development of agriculture and rural areas, the allocation of cadres, the allocation of factors, the investment in public finance and public services. To implement the important instruction of the Supreme Leader that the rural revitalization strategy should be given priority, we must establish and improve the system, mechanism and policy system of urban-rural integration development, and put the priority development of agriculture and rural areas into the leadership of the party, planning and guidance, investment guarantee, supervision and assessment and farmers’ main body.

　　Put the requirements of the five-level secretary for rural revitalization in place. It is our tradition and advantage for the Party to govern rural work. The key to rural revitalization lies in the party. Comrades of the Supreme Leader clearly demanded that the top leaders of the Party and government should be the first responsible person, and the five-level secretary should focus on rural revitalization. Implementing the rural revitalization strategy is a systematic project, and it cannot be done by just one department or several departments. To give priority to rural revitalization, we must adhere to the party’s management of rural areas and give full play to the political advantages of the party’s leadership. The main responsible comrades of the party and government, especially the county party secretary, should be the first responsible person and turn rural revitalization into a top-ranking project.

　　Put the plan in place first. It is an important principle that rural revitalization must be planned first. The current rural construction determines the village style for a long time to come. In the future, with the development of villages, some central villages will become highland of population and resources gathering for rural revitalization, and some characteristic villages and famous historical and cultural villages will become highlights and signboards for rural revitalization. We should persist in focusing on construction with differences to avoid confusion and great waste. To give priority to rural revitalization, we must insist on planning first, establish the concept of urban-rural integration, integrated design and multi-regulation, and work out local planning and special planning schemes for rural revitalization according to local conditions in terms of industrial development, population distribution, public services, infrastructure, land use and ecological protection, give classified guidance and make precise policies, so as to ensure that rural revitalization has rules to follow, people at all levels are responsible, and a blueprint is drawn to the end for a long time.

　　Put the capital investment guarantee in place. Rural revitalization can’t be done without real money and money. It is far from enough for rural farmers to make up for the debts owed by rural construction and development for many years. To give priority to rural revitalization, we must make up our minds to adjust the allocation structure of urban and rural factors and establish and improve the investment guarantee mechanism for rural revitalization. Pay close attention to study and formulate, adjust and improve the scope of land transfer income and increase the proportion of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers". We will promote the inter-provincial transaction of supplementary cultivated land indicators and the increase and decrease of urban and rural construction land, and all the proceeds from the provincial adjustment of savings indicators will be used to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and implement the rural revitalization strategy. Broaden investment and financing channels, and guide and incite all kinds of social capital to invest in rural areas.

　　Put the supervision and assessment in place. It is necessary to implement the working mechanism of overall planning by the central government, overall responsibility by the province, and implementation by cities and counties, and establish a performance appraisal system for party and government leading bodies and leading cadres in cities and counties to promote the rural revitalization strategy. To give priority to rural revitalization, we must make good use of the sharp weapon of supervision and assessment, establish a list of responsibilities and work accounts, regularly carry out follow-up assessment and special supervision, take the results of supervision and assessment as an important basis for the appointment and removal of cadres and policy support, compact the responsibilities of various localities and departments to promote rural revitalization, promote county-level party committees and governments to be the "first-line headquarters" for rural revitalization, and build a strong "three rural" work team that understands agriculture, loves the countryside and loves farmers.

　　Adhere to the main position of farmers in place. Farmers are the main body of agricultural and rural development, and many reform achievements in the past 40 years of reform and opening up have been created by farmers. To implement the strategy of rural revitalization, we must unswervingly follow the mass line and fully rely on the peasants. To give priority to the implementation of rural revitalization strategy, we must adhere to the dominant position of farmers, respect their initiative, fully mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of the broad masses of farmers, and truly let them become participants, builders and beneficiaries of rural revitalization.

　　Let rural revitalization become the common action of the whole party and society.

　　This year’s Document No.1 of the Central Committee and the Rural Revitalization Strategic Plan (2018— In 2022), the work of rural revitalization was fully deployed. To implement the central decision-making and deployment, we should closely focus on the key tasks of "five revitalization", actively mobilize the whole party and society to form a joint force, and continue to promote rural revitalization and achieve new results.

　　Focus on promoting industrial revitalization and vigorously promote the high-quality development of agriculture. Industrial revitalization is the material basis of rural revitalization. After years of efforts, China’s agricultural industrial system construction has made great progress, but the problems such as insufficient agricultural intensive processing, short industrial chain and low agricultural quality and efficiency are still outstanding. To promote the revitalization of rural industries, in accordance with the requirements of high-quality agricultural development, we should continue to deepen the structural reform of the agricultural supply side, vigorously sing the main theme of promoting agriculture by quality, promoting agriculture by green, and strengthening agriculture by brand, promote the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries, accelerate the development of new industries and formats such as intensive processing of agricultural products, rural tourism, leisure and health care, and e-commerce, promote the expansion of agricultural functions to production and life ecology, and continuously extend the industrial chain and upgrade the value chain. We should persist in putting rural industries in towns and villages, and leave the generated benefits, solved employment and income in rural areas, so as to truly increase the value of agriculture on the spot and increase farmers’ income nearby. At the same time, we will unswervingly do a good job in grain production, implement the strategy of "storing grain on the ground" and "storing grain in technology", and ensure that the grain production capacity is stable at 1.2 trillion Jin.

　　Focusing on promoting the revitalization of talents and cultivating new professional farmers. Without people, rural revitalization is empty talk. With the acceleration of urbanization, a large number of young and middle-aged laborers have left the countryside, and the problems of aging farmers, lack of talents and retention in rural areas have become more and more prominent. To promote the revitalization of rural talents, we must try our best to create conditions and attract more talents to participate in rural revitalization. Insist on walking on two legs, on the one hand, cultivate on the spot, establish a professional peasant system in an all-round way, and cultivate a group of "local experts", "Tian Xiucai" and agricultural professional managers rooted in the countryside; On the other hand, we will build nests to attract phoenix, guide migrant workers, veterans and rural college graduates to return home to start businesses and innovate, so that all kinds of talents, capital and other elements can play a role and show their talents in the vast countryside.

　　Focusing on promoting cultural revitalization and accelerating the construction of modern rural civilization. Rural revitalization should not only shape, but also cast souls. Excellent traditional cultures, such as filial piety, caring for the elderly, helping the poor, honesty and trustworthiness, and neighborhood watch, are valuable assets to boost the rural spirit in the new era. In recent years, a few rural areas, such as high-priced bride price, poor care and thick burial, have prevailed, and in some places, the rise of evil forces and clan forces in rural areas has seriously affected the rural social atmosphere. To promote the revitalization of rural culture, we must vigorously inherit and carry forward excellent traditional culture, strive to promote the integration of socialist core values into the countryside, transform them into farmers’ emotional identity and behavior habits, promote the change of customs, cultivate civilized rural customs, good family style and simple folk customs, and make the countryside truly a happy home with local flavor and inheritance of rural civilization.

　　Focusing on promoting ecological revitalization and building an ecologically livable beautiful countryside. Good production and living environment, perfect infrastructure and convenient public services are the ardent expectations of farmers, and also the hardware requirements for revitalizing the countryside and gathering popularity. At present, the gap between urban and rural areas is large, not only in income, but also in infrastructure and public services, especially in roads, communications, education, medical care and other aspects, and the poor living environment in rural areas is prominent. To promote rural ecological revitalization, we should conscientiously sum up and popularize the experience of "demonstration of thousands of villages and renovation of thousands of villages" in Zhejiang, solidly promote the improvement of village appearance, the treatment of rural garbage and sewage, the toilet revolution and the resource utilization of agricultural waste, and vigorously improve the rural living environment; Vigorously promote the construction of water circuits, gas communication and other infrastructure to extend to the countryside, and public services such as science, education, culture, health and sports are inclined to the countryside, so as to build a beautiful countryside that adapts to modern life, reflects the local features, has beautiful scenery and is blue and green.

　　Focusing on promoting organizational revitalization, we will continuously consolidate the party’s ruling foundation in rural areas. The countryside is the foundation of our party’s ruling building. In recent years, with the constant changes of rural population structure and community form, farmers’ ideas, values and interests are increasingly diversified, and the construction of rural party organizations and rural governance are facing some new problems and challenges. To promote the revitalization of rural organizations, we must unswervingly give full play to the leading core role of rural grass-roots party organizations, improve the rural governance system that combines autonomy, rule of law and rule of virtue, strive to create a vibrant, harmonious and orderly well-governed village, and lay a solid foundation for the party’s governance in rural areas.

　　(The author is Han Changfu, Director of the Central Agricultural Office and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs)