State strengthening agricultural capacity growth
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-01-31 06:32

The central authorities publicized yesterday a set of ideas to strengthen overall agricultural production capacity.

The ideas adopted by the central authorities aim to improve agricultural infrastructure, make faster progress in agro-science and technology, and increase capacity of agricultural production as a major, urgent strategic task for the country at present and in a period to come.

The requirements for China's agricultural work for 2005 involves co-ordinated development between urban and rural areas with a scientific concept on development.

The government will persevere in stabilizing, improving and intensifying policies that support rural development, effectively stepping up comprehensive farming production, continuing to adjust agricultural and rural economic structure and carrying out in-depth reforms in rural areas.

It will also strive for stable food growth, sustaining farmers increased incomes and improved all-round development in the rural economy.

The ideas, adopted by the central authorities, listed policies in nine aspects, including:

Further motivate farmers' enthusiasm by stabilizing, improving and beefing up policies to prop up agricultural development;

Resolutely implement the most rigid practices for the protection of farmland and effectively raise quality in farmland use;

Strengthen water conservancy and ecological construction, increase the capacity of agriculture in resisting natural adversity;

Accelerate agricultural tech-nology innovation and raise the science and technology contents in agriculture;

Speed up construction work of rural infrastructure and improve development environment for agriculture;

Continue to advance the adjustment of agriculture and rural economic structure and increase competitive power of agriculture;

Reform and improve invest-ment and financing systems in rural areas;

Improve the competency of rural labourers and promote the all- round development of farmers and rural society, and;

Reinforce and improve the leadership of the CPC over rural work.

(China Daily 01/31/2005 page5)

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