Guangdong to further drive rural vitalization

The government of Guangdong province is making every effort to build a beautiful countryside suitable for both living and working while accelerating rural vitalization, according to a senior official.

Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said relevant departments should highlight the key points and overcome difficulties to make great efforts to promote the construction of agricultural and rural modernization.

Huang, also Party secretary of Guangdong province, made the remarks at the province's rural work conference and the mobilization conference to comprehensively promote the high-quality development projects of 100 counties, 1,000 townships and 10,000 villages in the province.

Huang urged relevant departments to fully ensure the stable and safe supply of grain and other important agricultural products, make efforts to stabilize and increase production of grain, and speed up the construction of a diversified food supply system to help achieve the goal.

Meanwhile, Guangdong would fully promote the construction of modern marine pastures, improve the backbone network of grain and agricultural products circulation and try to accelerate construction of pig and vegetable projects to constantly improve the ability to guarantee supply of agricultural products, he said.

Those attending the conference held in the Guangdong provincial capital on Monday included Wang Weizhong, deputy Party secretary and governor of Guangdong, Huang Chuping, director of Guangdong Provincial People's Congress, Lin Keqing, chairman of Guangdong Provincial Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Party secretary of Guangzhou, and Meng Fanli, deputy Party secretary of Guangdong and Party secretary of Shenzhen special economic zone.

Wang said the provincial government would comprehensively promote rural vitalization and vigorously promote the orderly transfer of industries to rural areas while paying special attention to the development of county economies in the months to come.

Meanwhile, his government would strengthen overall planning and coordination, reform and innovation, and enhance the protection of resource elements in all aspects to promote the formation of a sound policy support system and ensure all arrangements are implemented and effective in constructing a new socialist countryside.

Qin Weizhong, mayor of Shenzhen, said his city would further advance cooperation with Shantou, Heyuan, Shanwei, Chaozhou and Huizhou in the eastern part of Guangdong to construct industrial parks to promote the development of the local economy.

The city government would encourage and guide local companies to set up their production facilities in rural areas in the months ahead, he said.

Liu Zonghui, Party chief of Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said his department would spare no effort to develop modern facility agriculture and deep-processing of agricultural products to help build a number of counties of precooked dish production and supply and a number of raw material supply villages in the following years.

Lu Feihong, Party chief of Lianzhang village of Jiangkou township in Yingde city, said her village would seize development opportunities to vigorously develop the tea, bamboo shoot, rice and related characteristic industries that the village has rich resources and advantages in to promote rural vitalization and help villagers increase their incomes.