China improves the service level of green channel policy for the transportation of fresh and live agricultural products. The General Office of the Ministry of Transport, the General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission, the General Office of the Ministry of Finance and the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development issued the Notice on Further Improving the Service Level of Green Channel Policy for the Transportation of Fresh and Live Agricultural Products. The Notice on the inconsistent understanding of varieties of fresh and live agricultural products and the controversy of inconsistent grasp of inspection scale, supplements and improves the Catalogue of Varieties of Fresh and Live Agricultural Products, focusing on the identification of specific varieties of fresh and live agricultural products.
Source: Farmers Daily Jan.31, 2023
The 4th ChineseEducation and Training of Farmers Development Forum was held in Zhengding. The Forum released the 2022 China Highly Qualified Farmers Development Report and announced six typical education and training of farmers for 2022. The Forum set up a main forum and two sub-forums, and Hebei Province organized three special events at the same time, and produced a VR panoramic online virtual exhibition hall to combine online and offline, with 200 people on site and 150,000 people online attending the Forum.
Source: Hebei Daily Feb.2, 2023
The Central Internet Information Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the People's Government of Zhejiang Province signed a memorandum of cooperation to build a digital countryside leading area. The memorandum implements the decision and deployment of the 20th Party Congress report, supports Zhejiang Province to take digital reform as the traction, further releases digital dividends to generate endogenous power of rural development, improves the happiness index of rural residents' life, and explores the formation of innovation of Zhejiang, nationally shared digital village construction model. The memorandum proposes the implementation of six major actions, such as agricultural and rural digital reform, rural industry digital efficiency, rural digital service quality improvement, rural network culture revitalization, rural four governance integration promotion, rural digital infrastructure enhancement, etc.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Feb.3, 2023
The size of populationof YunnanProvinceout of poverty and the scale of work for monitoring targets reached 3,446,000, ranking first in China. Data show that in 2022, the per capita disposable wage income of population of Yunnan Province out of poverty will reach a new high of CNY 9,538, an increase of CNY 1,452 or 17.9% over 2021. In the next step, Yunnan Province will prevent the risk of returning to poverty in key areas through the following points. First, strengthen the role of policy support, continue to deepen labor collaboration, upgrade the development of employment assistance workshops, implement food-for-work projects, support entrepreneurship for people out of poverty, and develop rural public service jobs to stabilize the scale of work for people out of poverty. Second, optimize employment services, strengthen skills training, enhance labor branding, and strengthen the protection of rights and interests. Third, improve the service mechanism for key people, improve the mechanism for coordinating urban and rural employment assistance, and improve the mechanism for tilting support in key areas.
Source: China News Network Feb.1, 2023
Suzhou strengthensseed supervision and enforcement to ensure the safety of agricultural seeds. The 2022 is the second year of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to carry out a three-year China Seed Industry Supervision and Enforcement Year activities. The Suzhou Comprehensive Agricultural Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment issued the Special Enforcement Action Program for Crop Seed Law Enforcement and Supervision in 2022 and the 2022 Agricultural Material Anti-Counterfeiting Special Remediation Action Plan, targeting the two key areas of seeds and arable land, to make the deployment of the seed industry supervision and enforcement work in Suzhou. 2022 Suzhou accumulated 1922 law enforcement officers were deployed/times, inspecting enterprises, stores and individuals 868 (people)/times, investigating and handling 5 cases, cracking down on lawbreakers, regulating the production and operation of seeds, and providing an effective guarantee of the rule of law for abundant grain production and harvest.
Source: Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Development Feb.1, 2023
Guangdong Province acceleratesthe construction of a strong agricultural province. The agricultural and rural system of Guangdong Province will implement the work plan of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, implement high-quality development projects, focus on filling the shortcomings and strengthening the weaknesses, promote rural revitalization, accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural province, promote the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, release the creation of momentum, consumption potential and development space for the high-quality development of Guangdong Province, and build a stronger foundation for high-quality development in Guangdong Province. The main work is as follows. First, ensure stable grain area and production growth. Second, cultivate the modernization of the whole industry chain of marine pasture. Third, promote the rural areas gradually and basically with modern living conditions. Fourth, promote the key core technologies of agriculture research.
Source: South Plus Feb.1, 2023
Kecheng District, Zhejiang Province promotesthe transfer of rural contracted land. In recent years, Kecheng District explores the flow of land management rights, the transformation of agricultural business methods, and promotes the optimal allocation of land resources. First, innovate land concentration in a row. The innovative establishment of the land management model has achieved the goals of increasing the greenness of farmland, increasing food production, increasing income of farmers and increasing collective efficiency. Second, highlight the key projects. They promote the development of agricultural modernization based on the projects of comprehensive land improvement in the whole area, construction of poetry and painting scenery belt, centralized and continuous improvement of permanent basic farmland and construction of high-standard farmland. Third, focus on cultivating industrial demonstration villages. Zhejiang Province introduced the Incentive Measures for Promoting of Farmers Incomes by Developing Model Villages of Agricultural Special Industries in Ke Cheng District to form a multi-win situation.
Source: Zhejiang Agricultural Information Network Feb.1, 2023
Hainan Province studiesthe policy of helping fishermen and boat people to change production and industry. Recently, the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the Hainan Province 2023 ship cleaning and remediation work points, will be from the development of supporting policies and measures and other aspects, the combination of anti-smuggling and fisheries quality development, and constantly promote the governance of the ship. In the development of supporting policies and measures, Hainan Province will carry out legislative follow-up and social risk assessment, develop implementation plans, carry out assessments of basic safety and technical conditions of ships, introduce temporary management measures for own ships of fishermen, optimize the work procedures for ship dismantling, study the policy of helping fishermen and boat people to change production and industry, and strengthen production skills training of fishermen.
Source: Hainan Daily Feb.2, 2023
Gansu Province will carry out investment promotion in agriculture and agricultural products. According to reports, in order to carry out agricultural and agricultural products investment promotion work, Gansu Province Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the 2023 Gansu Province Agricultural and Agricultural Products Investment Promotion Work Program. Gansu Province Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and 14 cities and states in Gansu Province and Lanzhou New Area signed the Target Responsibility for Attracting Investment in Agriculture and Agricultural Products in 2023, and the task will be included in the rural revitalization assessment. Gansu Province Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will establish the National Agricultural Leading Enterprise Investment Target Bank, Investment Project Reserve Bank, Gansu Province Agricultural Advantageous Characteristic Industry Investment Promotion Book and Local Investment Promotion Book.
Source: China Agriculture Network Feb.2, 2023
Anhui Provincehas issued a rural water purification attack action program. Recently, the Anhui provincial party committee rural work leading group issued the Anhui Province Rural Water Purification Action Plan, put forward to 2025 to completely eliminate rural black smelly water bodies and other work objectives. The action plan requires all places to control the target requirements, decompose the rectification task year by year, and formulate the governance implementation plan. The counties (cities, districts) in accordance with 2023, 2024, the cumulative elimination of the number of black smelly water bodies in rural areas, respectively, the proportion of not less than 45%, 70%, 2025, the full elimination of progress requirements, in an in-depth investigation, based on full traceability, the preparation of remediation programs. The Action Plan puts forward requirements for the source management and ecological restoration of rural black smelly water bodies.
Source: China Review Network Feb.2, 2023
Yanji cultivates agricultural products processing enterprises to create special food industry clusters. In recent years, Yanji creates Yanbian rice, Changbai Mountain ginseng, Yanbian cattle, folk food four industrial clusters. In 2022, Yanji agricultural products processing enterprises to 243, the total output value of CNY 16.765 billion. First, construct mechanisms to lead the overall planning. The municipal government has introduced a series of policies and measures such as Yanji City Ten Industry Cluster Enhancement Action Plan. Second, cultivate enterprise to solidify the basis for development, including strengthening policy support, strengthening precision services, strengthening radiation and other measures. Third, Develop parks to promote industrial clustering. This includes measures such as highlighting integrated development and highlighting joint agriculture with agriculture. Fourth, construct project to accumulate development momentum. Around the development of agricultural products processing industry and food industry clusters, give full play to the project leading and industry-driven role.
Source: Yanji City Agricultural and Rural Bureau Feb.3, 2023
Five enterprises in Hainan Province were awarded national eco-farms for the year 2022. In 2022, the General Station of Agricultural Ecology and Resource Conservation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in conjunction with the China Association of Agricultural Ecology and Environmental Protection, carried out the evaluation of eco-farms in China. Recently, according to the evaluation results announced, five enterprises recommended by Hainan Province were awarded the honorary title of national eco-farm. In recent years, Hainan Province has promoted the construction of ecological farms, encouraged and guided business entities to introduce ecological agricultural technology, modern advanced equipment and green low-carbon concepts into agricultural development, and implemented input reduction, production cleanliness and industrial modeling. The green development of agriculture has been effective, up to now there are 7 national ecological farms.
Source: Hainan Daily Feb.3, 2023
Datong County plans to implement 14 rural revitalization projects. In order to consolidate and expand the results of poverty eradication, effectively connect the work of rural revitalization, and play the role of project construction as an important support and carrier of rural revitalization strategy, Datong County plans to implement 14 projects. Daitong County takes project construction as an important foundation to promote rural revitalization and reserves projects around key contents such as characteristic industry development, infrastructure improvement, pilot village construction and support for consolidation of poverty eradication achievements subsidies. Datong County will speed up the project construction and promote the implementation of the decision making of the county party committee with practical measures. Datong County plans to arrange the first batch of 2023 co-ordinated integration of articulated funds CNY 131.11 million, plans to implement 14 projects. Among them, 9 industrial projects and 5 infrastructure projects.
Source: West Ocean City News Feb.3, 2023
200 villages in Qinghai Province carry out rural revitalization pilot projects. Up to now, Qinghai Province has selected 200 villages to carry out rural revitalization pilot projects, and all of them have compiled and completed multi-regulation village planning or implementation plans, integrated industry departments rural construction funds, and a number of representative, replicable models of rural revitalization experience have been formed. Since the promotion of rural revitalization, Qinghai Province has taken the lead in realizing rural construction assessment covering the whole province by integrating funds and projects from various departments in response to the problems of large gaps in rural construction reality and high input costs. At the same time, Qinghai Province has completed the handover of work between rural revitalization and agricultural and rural departments at all levels, and arranged special funds of CNY 155 million to implement 44,200 rural household toilets and 40 public sanitary toilet reconstruction projects. At present, 40,200 household toilets and 25 public toilets have been completed.
Source: West Ocean City News Feb.3, 2023
Chongqing strengthens8 key areas of work to help agricultural and rural work. In 2023, Chongqing will have a grain production target of 21.61 billion pounds or more, and 70% of the village collective economic organizations will have an annual operating income of CNY 50,000 or more. 8 key areas of work are the following. First, carry out grain and oil production. Second, strengthen the supply of product production. Third, consolidate and enhance the special industries in the areas out of poverty. Fourth, consolidate and build a solid foundation for modern agricultural development. Fifth, promote the upgrading of the whole chain of rural industries. Sixth, strengthen agricultural science and technology innovation. Seventh, comprehensively deepen rural reform. Eighth, promote the key tasks of rural revitalization.
Source: China Agriculture Network Feb.3, 2023
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