Great rejuvenation and magnificent voyage ｜ China’s agricultural modernization has reached a new level.

Cctv news(News Network): China’s modernization cannot be separated from agricultural modernization. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has embarked on a road of agricultural modernization with China characteristics, focusing on accelerating the pace of agricultural modernization, accelerating the transformation of agricultural development mode and accelerating the pace of agricultural technological innovation.

In the autumn season, a picture of high-quality agricultural development is unfolding: in the vast fields, 30 million sets of various agricultural machinery are rushing to harvest and scramble for seeds; In the rows of greenhouses, all kinds of vegetables and fruits are growing sturdily, fertilizing and irrigating, adjusting temperature and humidity, and realizing automatic control throughout.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Supreme Leader General Secretary has attached great importance to the development of agricultural modernization. From the granary in the northeast to the Silicon Valley in the south, from the land of Sanqin to the south of the Yangtze River, the general secretary inspected the protection of cultivated land, understood the research and development of agricultural science and technology, and investigated the development of characteristic agricultural industries. He pointed out that efforts should be made to adjust and optimize the agricultural industrial structure and improve the overall quality of agriculture. Efforts should be made to upgrade agriculture with modern science and technology and improve agricultural production efficiency and product quality. Efforts should be made to improve the degree of intensification, specialization, organization and socialization of agricultural production and management, and enhance the vitality of agricultural management.

In this decade, the foundation of modern agricultural production has been further consolidated. The state has continuously strengthened the construction of agricultural infrastructure focusing on farmland water conservancy, and increased investment in the construction of farmland water conservancy. The state’s financial expenditure on agriculture, forestry and water affairs has increased by 7.1% annually, and more than 900 million mu of high-standard farmland has been built. The comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvest increased by nearly 15 percentage points, reaching 72%.

In this decade, the modern agricultural industrial system has gradually become a trend. A total of 140 industrial clusters with advantages and characteristics, 250 national modern agricultural industrial parks, more than 1,300 strong agricultural towns and more than 3,600 "one village, one product" demonstration villages and towns have been created, creating a number of rural industrial development highlands with distinctive local characteristics, prominent leading industries and high quality and efficiency. The total number of green, organic and geographical indication agricultural products reached 62,000.

In this decade, the modern agricultural management system has been accelerated. On the basis of clarifying the policy of "separation of the three powers" of rural land ownership, contracting right and management right, all localities have accelerated the cultivation of new business entities such as family farms and farmers’ cooperatives, and cultivated 950,000 agricultural socialized service organizations, serving more than 78 million small farmers.

In the past ten years, China’s agricultural development has shifted from relying mainly on increasing the input of resource elements to a new stage of relying mainly on scientific and technological progress to drive high-quality development. The contribution rate of agricultural scientific and technological progress has increased from 54.5% to over 61%.

Today, China has established a seed supply system with Hainan, Gansu and Sichuan as the core, 52 seed production counties and 100 regional excellent breeding bases as the backbone, providing more than 70% of crop seeds for the whole country, and the coverage rate of improved varieties exceeds 96%.

Today, the facilities for producing agricultural products are more complete. A total of 51,000 cold storage and preservation facilities have been built nationwide, and the low-temperature treatment and commercialization of agricultural products in the producing areas have been significantly improved; 156,000 primary processing facilities were built, and the conversion rate of agricultural products processing reached 70.6%.

Nowadays, the circulation of agricultural products is smoother. There are 44,000 agricultural products markets in China, and there are more than 30,000 e-commerce companies involved in agriculture. Since 2014, the state has implemented a comprehensive demonstration of e-commerce in rural areas, building 2,400 county-level e-commerce public service centers and logistics distribution centers and 148,000 village-level e-commerce service stations.

The vigorous development of modern agricultural industry drives farmers to increase their income continuously. In 2021, the per capita disposable income of rural residents was 18,931 yuan, more than double that of 2012, and the living standards of farmers reached a big step.

Stepping into a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, under the guidance of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, hundreds of millions of farmers are striding forward along the road of intensive, efficient, safe and sustainable modern agricultural development and writing a new chapter in agricultural modernization.