Rural Revitalization in China: A Socialist Road with Chinese Characteristics

Contents
1 Introduction
1 Importance of Agriculture, Rural Areas and Rural People
1.1 The “Issues Relating to Agriculture, Rural Areas and the Wellbeing of Farmers” Are Fundamental Issues in the Progress of China’s Modernization and Realizing Great National Rejuvenation
1.2 China’s Food Security Is a Strategic Concern in National Economic Development
1.3 “If China Wants to Be Strong, Agriculture Must Be Strong”
1.4 “If China Wants to Be Beautiful, the Countryside Must Be Beautiful”
1.5 “If Countryside Wants to Be Improved, the Key Lies in Hundreds of Millions of Farmers”
1.6 “To Achieve Initial Prosperity in the Country, It Is Crucial to Raise the Rural Living Standard”
2 President Xi Jinping’s Exploration and Practice in the Field Concerning Issues Relating to Agriculture, Rural Areas and the Wellbeing of Farmers
2.1 Learning More About China from the Personal Experience Related to the “Issues Relating to Agriculture,Rural Areas and the Wellbeing of Farmers”
2.2 Being Courageous in Exploring, Developing and Bringing Forth New Ideas
3 Main Work Related to Tree Rural Issues for a New Era
3.1 Ensuring Food Security Is a Top Priority for Governing the Country
3.2 Stabilizing and Improving the Rural Basic Operation System
3.3 Taking the Road of Agricultural and Rural Modernization with Chinese Characteristics
3.4 Promoting Integration of Urban–Rural Development
3.5 Building New Socialist Countryside
3.6 Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Reduction
3.7 Accelerating Rural Ecological Civilization Construction
3.8 Strengthening Party Leadership and Rural Governance
2 Stabilizing and Improving the Basic Rural Operation System
1 Adhering to the Basic Rural Operation System
1.1 The Basic Rural Operation System Serves as the Cornerstone of the Party’s Rural Policy
1.2 Adhering to the Collective Ownership of Rural Land of Farmers Is the “Soul” of Adhering to the Basic Rural Operation System
1.3 Adhering to the Basic Status of Household Operation of Production and the Collective Land Contract Rights Belonging to Farmers Is the Fundamental Requirement for Stabilizing and Perfecting the Basic Rural Operation System
2 The Implementation of Separating Ownership, Contracting Right and Operation Right of Rural Land
2.1 Separating Ownership, Contracting Right and Operation Right is an Effective Form of Collective Land Ownership
2.2 Stabilizing the Contractual Operation Rights of Farmers Is the Key to Protecting the Interests of Farmers
2.3 Enlivening Land Operation Rights Is the Key to Guiding the Orderly Circulation of Land
3 Improving Unified Operation and Developing Appropriate Scale Operation in Various Forms
3.1 Improving Unified Operation
3.2 Developing Various Forms of Operation with Appropriate Scale
3.3 Sticking to Appropriate Scales, Respecting Farmers’ Wishes and Protecting Their Rights and Interests in Conducting Appropriate Scale Operation
3 Deepening Rural Reform
1 Main Content of Comprehensive Reform in Rural Areas
1.1 The Reform of the Rural Collective Property Rights System
1.2 The Construction of a New Agricultural Operation System
1.3 Improvement of the Agricultural Support and Protection System
1.4 The Innovation of the Institutional Mechanism for the Integration of Urban and Rural Development
1.5 The Innovation of the Rural Social Governance System
2 Deepening the Reform of Rural Collective Property Rights System
2.1 Promoting the Reform of the Land Stock Cooperation
2.2 Exploring the Development of a Rural Mixed Ownership Economy
2.3 Exploring the New Mechanisms for Collective Accumulation
3 Improving the Agricultural Support and Protection System
3.1 Adhering to the Direction of Market-Oriented Reform
3.2 Perfecting the Agricultural Subsidy System
4 Promoting the Comprehensive Reform of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives
4 Ensuring National Food Security
1 Background of Forming China’s New Food Security Strategy and Its Significance
1.1 The Issue of World Food Security Is Increasingly Prominent
1.2 The Total Supply and Demand of China’s Agricultural Products Is Basically Balanced but Structurally Scarce
1.3 Food Security Is the Top Priority of Ensuring National Security
2 China’s New Food Security Strategy
2.1 The Bottom Line of the Food Security Strategy Is to Ensure the Basic Self-Sufficiency of Grain and Absolute Safety of Grain Rations
2.2 The Primary Principle of the Food Security Strategy Is to Rely on Domestic Food with Moderate Imports
2.3 The Endogenous Driving Force of the Food Security Strategy Is to Ensure Farmers to Profit from Growing Grains and to Keep the Continued Enthusiasm of Major Grain-Producing Areas
2.4 The Key Component of Ensuring a Food Security Strategy Is to Improve Crop Production Based on Farmland Operation and Technological Application
2.5 The Ultimate Goal of the Food Security Strategy Is to Protect the Safety of Every Bite of Food
3 Effective Ways to Ensure National Food Security
3.1 Accelerating the Promotion of Effective Food Supply
3.2 Accelerating the Optimization of Grain Industry Structure
3.3 Accelerating the Improvement of Food Quality
3.4 Accelerating the Promotion of Food Industry Integration and Technological Innovation
5 Realizing Agricultural Modernization with Chinese Characteristics
1 Significance of Realizing Agricultural Modernization
1.1 Agricultural Modernization Lays the Foundation for Socialist Modernization
1.2 Enormous Challenges Faced by Agricultural Modernization
1.3 Supports for Agricultural Modernization
2 Goals, Positioning and Fundamental Way of Agricultural Modernization
2.1 Goals of Agricultural Modernization
2.2 Positioning of Agricultural Modernization: Developing Scale Agriculture
2.3 The Fundamental Method: Accelerating the Transformation of Agricultural Developmental Models
2.4 The Motivation and Stance of Agricultural Modernization
3 Key Tasks of Agricultural Modernization
3.1 Establishing the Industrial System for Modern Agriculture
3.2 Establishing the Production System for Modern Agriculture
3.3 Establishing the Operation System for Modern Agriculture
4 Taking Technological Advancements as the Key for Agricultural Modernization
6 Promoting the Development of Urban–Rural Integration
1 Significance of Promoting the Development of Urban–rural Integration
2 Strategic Path of Promoting the Development of Urban–Rural Integration
2.1 Improving the Integration of Urban and Rural Development Shall Be Based on Local Culture
2.2 Promoting the Integration of Urban and Rural Development Shall Give the Top Priority to Planning
2.3 Promoting the Integration of Urban and Rural Development Shall Rely on the “Two-Wheel Drive”
3 Developing New Type of Industry-agriculture and Urban–rural Relationship
3.1 Product-Linked Integration of Urban and Rural Areas
3.2 Comprehensive Practice and Reflection on “Industry Promotes Agriculture, Urban Areas Support Rural Development”
3.3 Building a New Type of Industry-Agriculture and Urban–Rural Relationship
4 Perfecting the System and Mechanism for the Development of Urban–rural Integration
4.1 Intensifying Rural Reform to Establish the Urban and Rural Integration Development System and Mechanism
4.2 Steadily Propelling Rural Reform to Empower Farmers with More Property Rights
4.3 Deepening the Reform to Improve the Equal Exchange of Urban and Rural Factors and the Balanced Allocation of Public Resources
5 Enabling Farmers to Share the Fruits of Reform and Development
5.1 Enabling Farmers to Share the Fruits and Benefits of Reform and Development is the Starting Point and Objective for Integrated Urban and Rural Development
5.2 Enabling Farmers to Share the Fruits of Reform and Development Must Be Based on Upholding the “People-Oriented” Value Orientation of Urban–Rural Integration
7 Building a New Socialist Countryside
1 Taking the Road in Line with the Reality of Rural Areas
1.1 The Building of the New Countryside Should Fully Embody Rural Characteristics
1.2 The Building of the New Countryside Should Conform to the Law of Rural Development
1.3 The Building of the New Countryside Should Respect Farmers’ Wishes and Protect Their Interests
1.4 Urban and Rural Areas Development Should Be Balanced
2 Building a New Countryside in Light of Local Conditions
2.1 Making Plans According to the Reality
2.2 Basing on Realities and Carrying Out Classified Implementation
2.3 Adapting Measures to Local Conditions and Highlighting Key Points
3 Promoting the Building of Beautiful Countryside
3.1 Building a Beautiful Countryside is the Deepening and Upgrading of Building the New Countryside
3.2 Building a Beautiful Countryside is the Inheritance and Development of Traditional Chinese Ecological Culture
3.3 Building a Beautiful Countryside Should Realize the Protection and Continuation of Excellent Local Culture
4 Improving the Quality of Farmers in All-Round Way
4.1 To Train and Bring Up a New Type of Farmers
4.2 To Run Rural Compulsory Education Well
4.3 To Strengthen Rural Vocational Education
4.4 To Strengthen the Ideological Education of the Farmer Masses
8 Implementing Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy
1 Significance of Poverty Alleviation
1.1 The Essential Requirements of Socialism
1.2 The Top Priority of the Party’s Work and the Historical Mission of the Communist Party of China
1.3 The Inevitable Requirements for Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects and Realizing the Chinese Dream of Great Rejuvenation
2 Adhering to the Road of Poverty Alleviation with Chinese Characteristics
2.1 Adhering to the Philosophy of Emancipating the Mind in Poverty Alleviation
2.2 Following a Pragmatic Approach to Poverty Alleviation
2.3 Giving Full Play to Endogenous Development Power and External Input Power on Poverty Alleviation
3 Implementing Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Reduction Strategy
3.1 Targeted Poverty Alleviation is the Essence of President Xi Jinping’s Important Exposition on Poverty Alleviation
3.2 Following a Practical Path of Targeted Poverty Alleviation
4 Innovating the System and Mechanism of Poverty Alleviation
4.1 Breakthroughs and Innovations of the Local Assessment System and Mechanism
4.2 Breakthroughs and Innovations of the System and Mechanism of Assistance and Support for Officials Settled in Villages
4.3 Breakthroughs and Innovations of the Poverty Alleviation Investment System and Mechanism
4.4 Breakthroughs and Innovations in the System and Mechanism of Supervision and Assessment of Poverty Alleviation Funds
9 Accelerating Ecological Civilization Construction in Rural Areas
1 Strengthening Ecological and Environmental Protection in Rural Areas
1.1 Regarding Ecological and Environmental Quality as a Key for Measuring the Progress of Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects
1.2 Protecting the Ecological Environment to Benefit Generations to Come
1.3 Green Mountains are Mountains of Gold
1.4 Taking Holistic Measures of  Protecting the Environment to Ensure National Ecological Security
2 Promoting Green Development of Agriculture
2.1 Paying Attention to Balancing the Speed, Quality and Efficiency of Green Development of Agriculture
2.2 Paying Attention to Coordinating the Protection of Water and Soil Resources
3 Accelerating Forestry Reform and Development
3.1 Forests Take at a Strategic Position in Ecological Civilization Construction
3.2 Forest Resources Still Face Severe Challenges
3.3 Forests are the Core of National Ecological Security
3.4 Ecological Protection and Economic Development Shall Be Considered as Whole in the Development of Forestry
4 Strengthening Water Resource Utilization and Protection
4.1 Recognizing the Strategic Importance of Water Resources From the Perspective of Overall Development
4.2 Following the Instructions for Water Governance by President Xi Jinping
4.3 Taking Scientific Planning as the Guidance for Water Governance
4.4 Taking the Improvement of Water Resource Utilization Efficiency as the Premise of Water Governance
4.5 Taking Water Ecological Construction and Protection as the Core of Water Governance
4.6 Taking the Management Mechanism and System Innovation as the Guarantee of Water Governance
10 Strengthening Social Governance in Rural Areas
1 The Significance of Strengthening Social Governance in Rural Areas
2 People-Centered Development Orientation Shall Be Taken
3 Attention Shall Be Paid to the Effective Connection Between the Systematic Governance and the Source Governance
4 Attention Shall Be Paid to the Effective Combination of Law-Based Governance and Comprehensive Governance
Postscript
References
Index