20 10 Central 1

* * * Opinions of the Central Committee of the State Council on Strengthening the Overall Planning of Urban and Rural Development and Further Consolidating the Foundation of Agricultural and Rural Development

Zhong Fa No.20101

(65438+3 February 20091)

2009 is the most difficult year for China's economic development since the new century. Faced with the severe impact of the international financial crisis which is rare in history, the major test of natural disasters that have not happened for many years, and the adverse effects of abnormal fluctuations in domestic and international agricultural products markets, all regions and departments, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, have faced difficulties and made efforts to consolidate and develop the good situation in agriculture and rural areas. Grain production has achieved another bumper harvest and increased production for six consecutive years; The employment of migrant workers has rebounded rapidly, and the income of farmers has increased rapidly for six consecutive years; The reform of collective forest right system has been comprehensively promoted, and new breakthroughs have been made in rural system innovation; The construction of rural water circuit gas houses continued to be strengthened, and the production and living conditions of farmers were accelerated; Rural education, medical care and social security systems have been continuously improved, and rural people's livelihood has improved significantly; Rural grass-roots organizations have been further consolidated, and rural society is harmonious and stable. This has won the strategic initiative for the party and the country to overcome difficulties and provided basic support for maintaining growth, people's livelihood and stability.

At present, China's agricultural openness is constantly improving, the correlation between urban and rural economies is significantly enhanced, the impact of climate change on agricultural production is increasing, the favorable conditions and positive factors for agricultural and rural development are accumulating and increasing, and various traditional and non-traditional challenges are also superimposed. Facing the complicated and changeable development environment, there are more and more restrictive factors to promote agricultural production to a new level, and it is more and more difficult to maintain the rapid growth of farmers' income. The requirements for changing the mode of agricultural development are getting higher and higher, and the task of breaking the dual structure of urban and rural areas is getting heavier and heavier. The whole party must be prepared for danger in times of peace, effectively prevent the tendency of neglecting and relaxing the work concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers, and strive to ensure that the grain output will not drop, the income of farmers will not wander, and the good momentum of rural development will not be reversed. It is necessary to continuously deepen the basic understanding that solving the "three rural issues" is the top priority of the whole party's work, stabilize and improve the party's basic policies in rural areas, highlight the construction of agricultural and rural infrastructure, establish and improve the grassroots system of agricultural socialization services, vigorously strengthen the construction of rural grassroots organizations with party organizations as the core, consolidate the foundation of agricultural and rural development, coordinate and promote industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, and strive to form a new pattern of integration of urban and rural economic and social development.

20 10 the general requirements of agricultural and rural work are: fully implement the spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 17th Central Committee and the Central Economic Work Conference, hold high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, take Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents as the guidance, thoroughly implement Scientific Outlook on Development, and take the overall planning of urban and rural development as the fundamental requirement of building a well-off society in an all-round way. Taking improving people's livelihood in rural areas as an important part of adjusting the pattern of national income distribution, taking expanding rural demand as a key measure to stimulate domestic demand, taking the development of modern agriculture as an important task to change the mode of economic development, taking building a new socialist countryside and promoting urbanization as a lasting driving force to maintain stable and rapid economic development, according to the basic idea of stabilizing food supply, increasing income and benefiting people's livelihood, promoting overall planning through reform, strengthening the foundation and increasing stamina, persistently doing a good job in agriculture and rural areas, and continuing to make new contributions to the overall situation of reform, development and stability.

First, improve the policy system of strengthening agriculture and benefiting farmers, and promote the allocation of resource elements to rural areas.

1. Continue to increase state investment in agriculture and rural areas. In accordance with the requirements of continuous increase in the total amount and steady increase in the proportion, we will continue to increase investment in agriculture, rural areas and farmers. It is necessary to ensure that fiscal expenditure gives priority to supporting agricultural and rural development, fixed assets investment in the budget gives priority to supporting agricultural infrastructure and rural livelihood projects, and land transfer income gives priority to supporting agricultural land development and rural infrastructure construction. The growth rate of financial investment in agriculture at all levels is higher than the growth rate of recurrent fiscal revenue. Investment in fixed assets in the budget should continue to be tilted towards major construction projects in agriculture and rural areas. After the cultivated land occupation tax rate is raised, all the new income will be used for agriculture. In strict accordance with the relevant provisions, the land transfer income shall be accrued and used for agricultural land development, and the provisions that all the paid use fees for new construction land shall be used for cultivated land development and land consolidation shall be strictly implemented. Conduct special inspections on the collection and use of various land revenue funds for agriculture and rural areas. Continue to increase the scale of modern agricultural production development funds and comprehensive agricultural development funds.

2. Improve the agricultural subsidy system and market regulation mechanism. Adhere to direct subsidies to grain farmers. Increase subsidies for improved varieties, expand the scope of potato subsidies, start subsidies for improved varieties of green trees, and implement pilot subsidies for improved varieties of peanuts. Further increase subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery and tools, expand the types of subsidies, and include animal husbandry, forestry, drought-resistant and water-saving machinery and equipment into the scope of subsidies. Implement and improve the dynamic adjustment mechanism of comprehensive agricultural subsidies. In accordance with the principle of fixed stock and incremental tilt, new agricultural subsidies are appropriately tilted to large grain growers and farmers' professional cooperatives. Gradually improve the agricultural subsidy policies suitable for pastoral areas, forest areas and reclamation areas. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of the objects, types and fund settlement of agricultural subsidies, ensure that the subsidy policy is implemented, and prohibit the use of subsidy funds to deduct farmers' contributions. Implement the minimum purchase price policy for wheat and continue to raise the minimum purchase price for rice. Expand the scale of grain reserves in sales areas. Timely adopt temporary purchasing and storage policies for corn, soybeans, rapeseed, etc., support enterprises to participate in purchasing and storage, improve the national purchasing and storage auction mechanism for agricultural products, and make good control plans for cotton, sugar, pork, etc., so as to maintain market stability and reasonable prices of agricultural products.

3. Improve the quality and level of rural financial services. Strengthen the effective connection between fiscal and taxation policies and rural financial policies, guide more credit funds to invest in agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and effectively solve the problem of rural financing difficulties. Implement and improve policies such as tax incentives, targeted cost subsidies, and incremental incentives for agricultural loans. Further improve the policy that the newly-increased deposits of banking financial institutions in the county are mainly used for local loans. We will increase the support of policy finance for key areas and weak links in rural reform and development, expand the support of the Agricultural Development Bank for agriculture, and vigorously carry out medium-and long-term policy credit business for agricultural development and rural infrastructure construction. Agricultural banks, rural credit cooperatives, postal savings banks and other banking financial institutions should further increase agricultural credit. Actively promote rural micro-credit loans. Accelerate the cultivation of village banks, loan companies and rural mutual funds cooperatives, develop microfinance organizations in an orderly manner, and guide social funds to invest in the establishment of various new financial organizations that meet the needs of agriculture, rural areas and farmers. We will promptly formulate measures such as subsidies for the expenses of newly established rural financial institutions in remote areas to ensure the elimination of blank towns and villages in basic financial services within three years. According to the characteristics of agriculture and rural areas, we should innovate financial products and services, do a good job in building rural credit environment, and strengthen and improve rural financial supervision. Establish an agricultural industry development fund. Actively expand the variety and regional coverage of agricultural insurance premium subsidies, and increase the central government's premium subsidies to the central and western regions. Encourage all localities to give premium subsidies to insurance such as characteristic agriculture and rural houses. Develop rural micro-insurance, improve the agricultural reinsurance system, and establish a financial support catastrophe risk dispersion mechanism. Support qualified agriculture-related enterprises to go public.

4. Actively guide social resources to invest in agriculture and rural areas. When making plans, arranging projects and increasing funds, all departments and industries should take the initiative to serve agriculture, rural areas and farmers and tilt to the countryside. Large and medium-sized cities should play a leading role in rural areas. Encourage all kinds of social forces to carry out pairing assistance with rural areas and participate in rural industrial development and public facilities construction. Donation expenses for the construction of rural public welfare projects by enterprises through public welfare social organizations, people's governments at or above the county level and their departments or the establishment of special rural public welfare foundations are allowed to be deducted before calculating enterprise income tax. Relevant departments should pay close attention to improving the system of supporting agriculture in science, technology, education, culture and health, and guide more urban teachers to teach in rural areas, urban cultural and scientific research institutions to expand their services in rural areas, and urban doctors to teach in rural areas through measures such as improving spiritual and material rewards, promotion of professional titles, and targeted free training. Improve the agricultural meteorological service system and the rural meteorological disaster prevention system, and give full play to the important role of meteorological services for agriculture, rural areas and farmers.

2009 is the most difficult year for China's economic development since the new century. Faced with the severe impact of the international financial crisis which is rare in history, the major test of natural disasters that have not happened for many years, and the adverse effects of abnormal fluctuations in domestic and international agricultural products markets, all regions and departments, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, have faced difficulties and made efforts to consolidate and develop the good situation in agriculture and rural areas. Grain production has achieved another bumper harvest and increased production for six consecutive years; The employment of migrant workers has rebounded rapidly, and the income of farmers has increased rapidly for six consecutive years; The reform of collective forest right system has been comprehensively promoted, and new breakthroughs have been made in rural system innovation; The construction of rural water circuit gas houses continued to be strengthened, and the production and living conditions of farmers were accelerated; Rural education, medical care and social security systems have been continuously improved, and rural people's livelihood has improved significantly; Rural grass-roots organizations have been further consolidated, and rural society is harmonious and stable. This has won the strategic initiative for the party and the country to overcome difficulties and provided basic support for maintaining growth, people's livelihood and stability.

At present, China's agricultural openness is constantly improving, the correlation between urban and rural economies is significantly enhanced, the impact of climate change on agricultural production is increasing, the favorable conditions and positive factors for agricultural and rural development are accumulating and increasing, and various traditional and non-traditional challenges are also superimposed. Facing the complicated and changeable development environment, there are more and more restrictive factors to promote agricultural production to a new level, and it is more and more difficult to maintain the rapid growth of farmers' income. The requirements for changing the mode of agricultural development are getting higher and higher, and the task of breaking the dual structure of urban and rural areas is getting heavier and heavier. The whole party must be prepared for danger in times of peace, effectively prevent the tendency of neglecting and relaxing the work concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers, and strive to ensure that the grain output will not drop, the income of farmers will not wander, and the good momentum of rural development will not be reversed. It is necessary to continuously deepen the basic understanding that solving the "three rural issues" is the top priority of the whole party's work, stabilize and improve the party's basic policies in rural areas, highlight the construction of agricultural and rural infrastructure, establish and improve the grassroots system of agricultural socialization services, vigorously strengthen the construction of rural grassroots organizations with party organizations as the core, consolidate the foundation of agricultural and rural development, coordinate and promote industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, and strive to form a new pattern of integration of urban and rural economic and social development.

20 10 the general requirements of agricultural and rural work are: fully implement the spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 17th Central Committee and the Central Economic Work Conference, hold high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, take Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents as the guidance, thoroughly implement Scientific Outlook on Development, and take the overall planning of urban and rural development as the fundamental requirement of building a well-off society in an all-round way. Taking improving people's livelihood in rural areas as an important part of adjusting the pattern of national income distribution, taking expanding rural demand as a key measure to stimulate domestic demand, taking the development of modern agriculture as an important task to change the mode of economic development, taking building a new socialist countryside and promoting urbanization as a lasting driving force to maintain stable and rapid economic development, according to the basic idea of stabilizing food supply, increasing income and benefiting people's livelihood, promoting overall planning through reform, strengthening the foundation and increasing stamina, persistently doing a good job in agriculture and rural areas, and continuing to make new contributions to the overall situation of reform, development and stability.

First, improve the policy system of strengthening agriculture and benefiting farmers, and promote the allocation of resource elements to rural areas.

1. Continue to increase state investment in agriculture and rural areas. In accordance with the requirements of continuous increase in the total amount and steady increase in the proportion, we will continue to increase investment in agriculture, rural areas and farmers. It is necessary to ensure that fiscal expenditure gives priority to supporting agricultural and rural development, fixed assets investment in the budget gives priority to supporting agricultural infrastructure and rural livelihood projects, and land transfer income gives priority to supporting agricultural land development and rural infrastructure construction. The growth rate of financial investment in agriculture at all levels is higher than the growth rate of recurrent fiscal revenue. Investment in fixed assets in the budget should continue to be tilted towards major construction projects in agriculture and rural areas. After the cultivated land occupation tax rate is raised, all the new income will be used for agriculture. In strict accordance with the relevant provisions, the land transfer income shall be accrued and used for agricultural land development, and the provisions that all the paid use fees for new construction land shall be used for cultivated land development and land consolidation shall be strictly implemented. Conduct special inspections on the collection and use of various land revenue funds for agriculture and rural areas. Continue to increase the scale of modern agricultural production development funds and comprehensive agricultural development funds.

2. Improve the agricultural subsidy system and market regulation mechanism. Adhere to direct subsidies to grain farmers. Increase subsidies for improved varieties, expand the scope of potato subsidies, start subsidies for improved varieties of green trees, and implement pilot subsidies for improved varieties of peanuts. Further increase subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery and tools, expand the types of subsidies, and include animal husbandry, forestry, drought-resistant and water-saving machinery and equipment into the scope of subsidies. Implement and improve the dynamic adjustment mechanism of comprehensive agricultural subsidies. In accordance with the principle of fixed stock and incremental tilt, new agricultural subsidies are appropriately tilted to large grain growers and farmers' professional cooperatives. Gradually improve the agricultural subsidy policies suitable for pastoral areas, forest areas and reclamation areas. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of the objects, types and fund settlement of agricultural subsidies, ensure that the subsidy policy is implemented, and prohibit the use of subsidy funds to deduct farmers' contributions. Implement the minimum purchase price policy for wheat and continue to raise the minimum purchase price for rice. Expand the scale of grain reserves in sales areas. Timely adopt temporary purchasing and storage policies for corn, soybeans, rapeseed, etc., support enterprises to participate in purchasing and storage, improve the national purchasing and storage auction mechanism for agricultural products, and make good control plans for cotton, sugar, pork, etc., so as to maintain market stability and reasonable prices of agricultural products.

3. Improve the quality and level of rural financial services. Strengthen the effective connection between fiscal and taxation policies and rural financial policies, guide more credit funds to invest in agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and effectively solve the problem of rural financing difficulties. Implement and improve policies such as tax incentives, targeted cost subsidies, and incremental incentives for agricultural loans. Further improve the policy that the newly-increased deposits of banking financial institutions in the county are mainly used for local loans. We will increase the support of policy finance for key areas and weak links in rural reform and development, expand the support of the Agricultural Development Bank for agriculture, and vigorously carry out medium-and long-term policy credit business for agricultural development and rural infrastructure construction. Agricultural banks, rural credit cooperatives, postal savings banks and other banking financial institutions should further increase agricultural credit. Actively promote rural micro-credit loans. Accelerate the cultivation of village banks, loan companies and rural mutual funds cooperatives, develop microfinance organizations in an orderly manner, and guide social funds to invest in the establishment of various new financial organizations that meet the needs of agriculture, rural areas and farmers. We will promptly formulate measures such as subsidies for the expenses of newly established rural financial institutions in remote areas to ensure the elimination of blank towns and villages in basic financial services within three years. According to the characteristics of agriculture and rural areas, we should innovate financial products and services, do a good job in building rural credit environment, and strengthen and improve rural financial supervision. Establish an agricultural industry development fund. Actively expand the variety and regional coverage of agricultural insurance premium subsidies, and increase the central government's premium subsidies to the central and western regions. Encourage all localities to give premium subsidies to insurance such as characteristic agriculture and rural houses. Develop rural micro-insurance, improve the agricultural reinsurance system, and establish a financial support catastrophe risk dispersion mechanism. Support qualified agriculture-related enterprises to go public.

4. Actively guide social resources to invest in agriculture and rural areas. When making plans, arranging projects and increasing funds, all departments and industries should take the initiative to serve agriculture, rural areas and farmers and tilt to the countryside. Large and medium-sized cities should play a leading role in rural areas. Encourage all kinds of social forces to carry out pairing assistance with rural areas and participate in rural industrial development and public facilities construction. Donation expenses for the construction of rural public welfare projects by enterprises through public welfare social organizations, people's governments at or above the county level and their departments or the establishment of special rural public welfare foundations are allowed to be deducted before calculating enterprise income tax. Relevant departments should pay close attention to improving the system of supporting agriculture in science, technology, education, culture and health, and guide more urban teachers to teach in rural areas, urban cultural and scientific research institutions to expand their services in rural areas, and urban doctors to teach in rural areas through measures such as improving spiritual and material rewards, promotion of professional titles, and targeted free training. Improve the agricultural meteorological service system and the rural meteorological disaster prevention system, and give full play to the important role of meteorological services for agriculture, rural areas and farmers.

Third, accelerate the improvement of rural people's livelihood and narrow the gap between urban and rural public utilities.

13. Strive to promote farmers' employment and entrepreneurship. Establish a public employment service system covering urban and rural areas, actively carry out agricultural production technology and skills training for migrant workers, integrate training resources, standardize training work, and enhance farmers' scientific farming and employment and entrepreneurship capabilities. Develop characteristic and efficient agriculture and under-forest planting and aquaculture according to local conditions, and tap the employment potential within agriculture. Promote the structural adjustment and industrial upgrading of township enterprises, support the development of agricultural products processing industry, actively develop leisure agriculture, rural tourism, forest tourism and rural service industries, and expand the space for non-agricultural employment in rural areas. We will improve policies and measures to promote entrepreneurship and employment, and include migrant workers returning home to start businesses and farmers starting businesses nearby in the scope of policy support. Strengthen the guidance and service for farmers to go out to work, earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of migrant workers, and promote the smooth and orderly transfer of rural labor force. We will improve the social security system for migrant workers, deepen the coverage of industrial injury insurance, strengthen the prevention and health services for migrant workers' occupational diseases, incorporate migrant workers who have established stable labor relations with enterprises into the basic medical insurance for urban employees, and pay close attention to the implementation of the transfer and continuation methods for the basic old-age insurance for urban enterprise employees, including migrant workers. We will implement the policy of giving priority to public schools, supplemented by the introduction of quotas, solve the enrollment problem of migrant workers' children, and care for left-behind children in rural areas.

14. improve the development level of rural education, health and cultural undertakings. Consolidate and improve the funding guarantee mechanism for rural compulsory education, and implement the teacher training system and performance pay system. The layout of rural schools should be practical, convenient for students to go to school and ensure the safety of students. Continue to implement the safety project of primary and secondary school buildings. Gradually improve the nutritional status of rural students in poor areas. Vigorously develop secondary vocational education and continue to promote the process of free secondary vocational education in rural areas. Gradually implement free labor preparation training for new rural labor force. We will improve the three-level medical and health service network in rural areas, implement the performance pay policy in township hospitals and the subsidy policy for rural doctors' public health services, and gradually implement the plan of training rural general practitioners and recruiting practicing doctors free of charge. Do a good job in rural maternal and child health care and disease prevention, and strengthen rural food and drug supervision. Actively develop rural distance education and telemedicine. Stabilize the low birth rate in rural areas, continue to promote the project of family planning in new rural areas and have fewer children and get rich quickly, improve the reward and assistance system for some rural family planning families and the special assistance system for family planning families, and strengthen and innovate the management of family planning services for rural floating population. Establish a stable rural cultural investment guarantee mechanism, promote the construction and comprehensive utilization of key cultural projects such as radio and television coverage, sharing of cultural information resources, township comprehensive cultural stations and village cultural rooms, rural film screening, farmer's bookstores, and extensively carry out mass spiritual civilization creation activities and farmers' fitness activities.

15. improve the level of rural social security. Gradually improve the financing level, government subsidy standards and security level of the new rural cooperative medical system. Do a good job in the policy convergence of new rural cooperative medical care, rural medical assistance, basic medical insurance for urban residents and basic medical insurance for urban workers. Continue to do a good job in the pilot work of the new rural social endowment insurance, and the pace of the pilot can be accelerated where conditions permit. Actively guide school-age rural residents in the pilot areas to participate in insurance, and ensure that elderly residents who meet the prescribed conditions receive pensions in full and on time. Reasonably determine the rural minimum living standard and subsidy level to achieve full coverage under dynamic management. Implement and improve the social security policy for landless peasants. Improve the temporary assistance system. Gradually improve the level of centralized support for rural five-guarantee households. Do a good job in the construction of rural nursing homes, develop rural old-age services, and explore effective ways to deal with the aging of rural population. Increase production assistance and life assistance for rural disabled people, and give priority to the inclusion of disabled people in the coverage of rural social security policies. Do a good job in rural disaster prevention and mitigation.

16. Strengthen the construction of rural water circuit gas room. Do a good job in guiding the planning of new rural construction, rationally arrange, improve functions, and accelerate the change of rural appearance. Increase investment in rural drinking water safety projects, strengthen water source protection, water quality monitoring and project operation management, and ensure that the planning tasks are completed as scheduled. Encourage qualified places to promote urban and rural water supply. To adapt to the rapid growth trend of rural power demand, combined with the promotion of rural power system reform, we will promptly implement a new round of rural power grid transformation and upgrading projects to improve the reliability and capacity of rural power grid power supply. Continue to implement the project of replacing fuel with small hydropower, and promote the construction of new rural electrification counties with hydropower. Complete the task of rural highway construction in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, implement the responsibility of rural highway management and maintenance, and promote the integration of urban and rural passenger transport. Accelerate the construction of rural household biogas, large and medium-sized biogas and centralized gas supply projects, and strengthen biogas technology innovation, maintenance management and supporting services. Support the development and utilization of new energy in rural areas, and promote the recycling and clean utilization of agricultural and forestry wastes. Accelerate the transformation of dilapidated houses and shanty towns in state-owned forest areas (fields) and reclamation areas, and continue to implement nomadic settlement projects. Seize the opportunity of rapid growth of rural housing and sufficient supply of building materials, take supporting farmers to build houses as an important measure to expand domestic demand, take effective measures to promote the construction of new countryside, and encourage qualified places to support farmers to build houses in accordance with laws and regulations through various forms. Strengthen urban planning and guide farmers to build safe, energy-saving and environmentally-friendly houses with local, national and traditional characteristics. We will implement the policy of promoting governance with awards, steadily promote the comprehensive improvement of rural environment, carry out pilot projects such as rural drainage and river dredging, do a good job in garbage and sewage treatment, and improve the rural living environment. Take effective measures to prevent urban and industrial pollution from spreading to rural areas. Promote rural informatization, actively support the construction of rural telecommunications and Internet infrastructure, and improve the rural comprehensive information service system.

17. continue to do a good job in poverty alleviation and development. Adhere to the rural development-oriented poverty alleviation policy, increase investment, gradually expand the pilot project of effective connection between poverty alleviation and development and the rural minimum living security system, fully implement the poverty alleviation policy for rural low-income people, focus on improving the self-development ability of people in poverty-stricken areas, and ensure that the per capita net income of farmers in key poverty alleviation and development counties is higher than the national average. According to local conditions, we will intensify poverty alleviation work such as whole village promotion, labor transfer training, industrialization poverty alleviation, and work-based surrogacy, and accelerate infrastructure construction and social development in poverty-stricken areas. Actively and steadily implement poverty alleviation and relocation, and properly solve the problem of follow-up development of immigrants. Comprehensive management of special poverty-stricken areas. Expand mutual aid funds in poor villages, develop contiguous destitute areas, and support the construction of old revolutionary base areas with lottery public welfare funds. Mobilize all sectors of society to participate in poverty alleviation, give full play to the role of the industry in poverty alleviation, and actively carry out international exchanges and cooperation in the field of anti-poverty. To study and formulate the outline of poverty alleviation and development in the future 10 and related plans.