GuShiio.com ① Signal 1: Reform means stronger.
② Signal 2: Firmly maintain the bottom line of food security.
③ Signal 3: Maintain the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty.
④ Signal 4: First mention of “new agricultural productivity”.
③ Signal 5:”Comprehensive rural revitalization in the context of urban-rural integration.
In 2025, the Central Committee’s No. 1 Document will arrive as scheduled, once again focusing on “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” and drawing up a new blueprint for further deepening rural reform, solidly promoting comprehensive rural revitalization, and accelerating agricultural and rural modernization. So what are the “new signals” in this year’s Central Committee Document No. 1? How will it affect our lives? A detailed interpretation will show you the highlights of Central Document No. 1.
Signal 1:
Reform means stronger
Jin Wencheng, Director of the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: This year’s Central Committee Document No. 1 focuses on implementing the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee to promote comprehensive rural revitalization, so “reform” has the strongest meaning! It is to use the magic weapon of “reform” to solve the problems and challenges faced by high-quality agricultural and rural development, so as to achieve comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.
The focus of the reform is first and foremost to “deepen the reform of the rural land system”, and further efforts must be made on the “three plots of land”.
For “contracted land”, we must do a good job in the pilot work of land contracting to expire in 30 years and extend it for another 30 years. We must further promote the expansion of the scope of the entire province’s pilot projects from the original several provinces to ensure the overall stable extension of contracted land to achieve the stability and improvement of land contracting relations.
“Homestead” is the housing legally acquired by farmers, which can be revitalized through shareholding cooperation and other methods. However, in the process of reforming homestead, attention must be paid to maintaining the red lines and bottom lines. City people cannot go to the countryside to buy homestead in the countryside, and retired cadres cannot go to the countryside to occupy land and build houses. This bottom line must be maintained.
“Collective construction land” requires market entry reform. The focus is on improving the interest distribution relationship between collectives and farmers, ensuring that the stock of construction land enters the market, strictly controlling the increment, and allowing farmers to share property benefits in the process of entering the market.
Tu Shengwei, a researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission: This year’s Central Committee Document No. 1 highlights “deepening rural reform to promote comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.” The document mentions many reform matters, but in summary, they still focus on land, money and people. Three key elements.
Regarding “money”, the Central Committee’s No. 1 Document proposed to “innovate the investment and financing mechanism for rural revitalization.” The purpose is to give full play to the role of fiscal resources in allocating thousands of pounds, and then guide and encourage more financial and social capital to invest in various areas of rural revitalization.
Regarding “people”, I think there are mainly two types of people involved. The first category is the group who is willing to stay in and build rural areas. We must improve the corresponding cultivation and development mechanisms so that they can each display their abilities and skills in the vast world of rural areas. Another category is agricultural transfer population, so this time the document mentioned the need to effectively solve the education, medical and other issues that they are most concerned about, so that they can settle down in the city as soon as possible and integrate into the city.
Reform is a systematic project. People, land, and money each have its own reform tasks. Only by forming a synergistic effect can we fully ensure that we promote the steady and long-term progress of comprehensive rural revitalization.
Signal 2:
Firmly maintain the bottom line of food security
Jin Wencheng, director of the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Putting “food security and the safe and stable supply of important agricultural products” at the top of national security is an important signal. This year’s Central Committee Document No. 1 also has another feature. It uses the longest length of this paragraph, accounting for about one-third of the space, and talks about nine aspects. This provides a systematic deployment and arrangement for consolidating and developing the food security policy system.
Among the nine aspects, the first one is “improvement in yields”! This year, it is proposed to continue to promote the increase in large-scale yields of grain and oil crops. The main focus is:
The first is “area expansion”. From the past thousand acres and ten thousand acres, it is now moving towards a large area for the entire township and county;
The second is to “focus on all links”, promote the yield improvement action, and scientifically arrange the entire process of farming, planting, harvesting, prevention and management to achieve overall improvement;
The third is to achieve the combination of the “four good things” and promote the combination of the “four good things” of good farmland, improved seeds, good opportunities, and good methods to promote the increase of yields in large areas;
The fourth is to focus on the combination of cultivating new entities and driving small farmers, and cultivate new business entities as important entities in large-scale yield improvement actions.
Signal 3:
Maintain the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty
Jin Wencheng, Director of the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: This year is the fifth year to consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation and effectively connect rural revitalization. It is also the last year of the transition period and the final year. Therefore, this year’s Central Document No. 1 focuses on the important node of “the transition period is coming to an end” and makes systematic arrangements for consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation. It is necessary to strengthen monitoring to ensure that there is no large-scale return to poverty and poverty; it is necessary to promote hierarchical and classified assistance for low-income populations and underdeveloped areas; and it is necessary to plan how to effectively connect policies after the transition period. In general, it is necessary to “guard against large-scale return to poverty”.
Lin Wanlong, Vice President of China Agricultural University: To maintain the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty, one of the most basic tasks is to maintain the bottom line of “three guarantees” and drinking water safety. The “three guarantees” are compulsory education guarantees, medical guarantees and housing security guarantees. At the same time, we should also increase assistance for industrial employment and do everything possible to increase the income level of people who have been lifted out of poverty in poverty-stricken areas. Special attention should also be paid to relocated households. Their follow-up support policies must be implemented so that everyone can move, live stably, and get rich. The last one is very important to strengthen the effective management of assistance assets, so that the large number of assistance assets we have formed during the poverty alleviation period and transition period can effectively and continuously play a role, providing us with strong support for the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.
Signal 4:
First mention of “new agricultural productivity”
Jin Wencheng, Director of the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: The connotation of new agricultural productivity is relatively rich, including current biological breeding technology, drone technology, artificial intelligence technology and digital technology. These applications can effectively change the development of agricultural production. The situation is of great significance to us accelerating the process of agricultural modernization. We must seize the opportunity of this scientific and technological revolution and the industrial revolution, do a good job in top-level design in developing new quality productivity, and build systems and mechanisms that adapt to the development of new quality productivity from the institutional and policy levels to support agricultural and rural modernization. At the same time, we must build an agricultural scientific and technological innovation system, enhance the ability and level of scientific and technological innovation, create our independent innovation platform, use these platforms to promote the development of new productive forces, and add the wings of science and technology to my country’s agricultural and rural modernization.
Lin Wanlong, Vice President of China Agricultural University: An important feature of China’s modernization is modernization with a large population. How to ensure China’s food security and supply of important agricultural products? In this regard, we need to greatly improve our agricultural productivity. Therefore, the application of modern cutting-edge technology is very important to us. Only in this way can we build ourselves into an “agricultural power.”
Tu Shengwei, a researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission: When we talk about new quality productivity, the first is technological innovation, the promotion of disruptive technologies, the optimal allocation of resources and the transformation and upgrading of industries. Therefore, we see the application of digital technology in the agricultural and rural fields, which not only brings traditional changes. The change in production model has also brought about a new development model, which is the reverse drive of the demand side of urban and rural residents, thereby promoting agricultural standardization and large-scale production.
Signal 5:
“Comprehensive rural revitalization” in the context of urban-rural integration
Jin Wencheng, Director of the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: This year’s Central Document No. 1 specifically proposed to “develop counties to enrich the people.” Why special emphasis was placed on counties this time? It is because our country’s urban-rural integrated development has entered a new stage, and counties have become our promotion. A main battlefield for comprehensive revitalization of rural areas is a carrier and entry point for promoting urban-rural integration.
Lin Wanlong, Vice President of China Agricultural University: When we talk about comprehensive rural revitalization, we must be clear that this is “comprehensive rural revitalization in the context of urban-rural integration.” Therefore, when we talk about industries that enrich the people, we must consider the development of rural industries from a county perspective. Its industrial chain and its industrial infrastructure are not limited to rural areas. They must be coordinated within the county. Therefore, in my opinion, the development of industries that enrich the people in the county is actually to promote the development of rural industries.
Tu Shengwei, a researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission: Developing county-level industries to enrich the people is a good combination of the rural economy and the urban economy. Only by vigorously developing these county-level industries to enrich the people with outstanding advantages, large employment capacity, and outstanding driving benefits can we enhance the comprehensive carrying capacity and governance capabilities of our county, thereby promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas.
The No. 1 Document of the Central Committee in 2025 sounded the clarion call for comprehensive rural revitalization. Let us jointly hope that under the guidance of policies, the beautiful picture of a more solid agricultural foundation, more prosperous rural areas, and more prosperous farmers ‘lives will be realized as soon as possible!
