Rural revitalization is not to build the same as the city, focusing on the unique functions of the countryside

The truly powerful countries in the world, without weaknesses, are able to solve their own food problems.

People have five organs, four limbs and five senses, each of which has its own function. The same is true of the state; the town has the special function of the town, and the country has the special function of the country.

To implement the rural revitalization strategy is not to make the countryside beautiful and build it like the city, but to give full play to the unique functions of the countryside.

On May 4, Chen Xiwen published the article "Comprehensively Promoting Rural revitalization and Accelerating the Construction of an Agricultural Power", which carried out an in-depth analysis on food security, rural revitalization and digital countryside.

The full text is as follows.

• Dialectically view the relationship between powerful agriculture and the modernization of agriculture and rural areas

A strong country must first strengthen farmers, and only when farmers are strong can the country be strong. A strong agricultural country is the foundation of a strong modern socialist country. Meeting the people's needs for a better life, achieving high-quality development, and consolidating the foundation of national security cannot be achieved without agricultural development.

The report to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the "implementation of the strategy of rural revitalization", which called for accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, and firmly grasped the main aspects of the social principal contradiction of unbalanced urban and rural development and inadequate rural development. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Party proposed to "accelerate the construction of an agricultural power", focusing on strengthening the confidence to cope with the changes in the international situation and safeguarding the bottom line of national security.

From "implementing the strategy of rural revitalization" to "accelerating the construction of an agricultural power", the two are both in line with each other and have their own priorities. Building a strong agricultural country and promoting agricultural and rural modernization are in themselves consistent. As a large country with more than 1.4 billion people, if it is not built into an agricultural power, it will be "stuck" on the issue of eating, and it is difficult for China's modernization to truly seize the initiative. China's natural endowment determines that there are more people and less land, and agriculture is one of the shortcomings of all industries. From this perspective, building an agricultural power is a difficult task.

Ensuring stable and secure supplies of food and important agricultural products has always been a top priority in building a strong agricultural country. The truly powerful and unvulnerable countries of the world have the ability to feed themselves. The food issue can not only be viewed from the economic perspective, ensuring national food security is an important basis for economic development, social stability and national security.

Big countries, especially populous ones, must be able to feed themselves. From the characteristics of agricultural power and the performance of the world today, the agricultural power must realize the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, and the country that has realized the modernization of agriculture and rural areas may not be an agricultural power. An important reason for this is that these countries cannot solve the problem of food supply for their own people by themselves.

At present, although China has achieved absolute food security, the self-sufficiency rate of soybean and oil is low, and the problem of food security still exists. On the whole, there are hidden dangers in China's food supply such as insufficient total amount, unbalanced grain pattern of "north grain transport to south", and prominent structural contradictions such as insufficient "three materials" of feed, oil and sugar.

"China's development has entered a period of coexistence of strategic opportunities, risks and challenges, and increasing uncertainties and unpredictable factors," said the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. "Various' black swan 'and' gray rhino 'incidents may occur at any time." At present, China's food security and food security issues are still in a complex background, and based on the lack of total food in China and the prominent structural contradictions, we must have a clear understanding of this, be prepared to fight a protracted war, and deal with the uncertainty of the external environment with the certainty of stable domestic production and supply. We must implement the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee and always tighten the "string" of ensuring national food security under any circumstances.

There is a strong substitution and conversion relationship between rations and other foods, and we must have an overall concept, not only satisfied with food security, but also see the gaps and existing problems in other important food supplies, enhance their own capabilities, and hold their own bottom line.

• Rural revitalization will focus on giving full play to the unique functions of rural areas

"The most arduous and onerous task in comprehensively building a modern socialist country is still in the countryside." Promoting rural revitalization is not only a matter for rural areas and farmers, but also for the whole Party and the people of the country.

Rural revitalization has two major goals: First, accelerate the development of a strong agricultural country with a population of more than 1.4 billion. Only by keeping the rice bowl firmly in our own hands can we seize the initiative in building a modern country. Second, we will build a livable, working and beautiful countryside to make farmers rich and happy and rural areas harmonious and beautiful. The former goal is "the great of the country", the latter is "the aspirations of the people", the two complement each other, and only by advancing simultaneously can they complement each other.

The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out: "Accelerate the building of an agricultural power, and solidly promote the revitalization of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology, and organizations." The "five major revitalization" is the general requirement, and "accelerating the construction of an agricultural power" is the general goal. To promote rural revitalization, we should not only increase the proportion of rural professionals, but also improve the cultural and scientific literacy of farmers. It is necessary to give full play to the leading role of rural grass-roots party organizations, revitalize rural collective economic organizations and villagers' self-governing organizations, develop new types of economic and social organizations needed by farmers, and improve the degree of organization of farmers in promoting rural revitalization. At the same time, we should focus on the unique functions of the countryside.

Cities and villages have different functions. Here it can be compared to a person, a person has five organs, four limbs and five senses, each of which has its own function. The same is true of the state; the town has the special function of the town, and the country has the special function of the country. As a community, urban and rural areas are integrated together, only to give full play to their respective unique functions, the modernization of the country is healthy.

The function of the city is more embodied in promoting various innovations on the basis of the agglomeration and integration of elements. The function of the countryside is mainly reflected in its unique function that the city does not have, but the development of the whole country cannot or lacks, which is largely reflected in the protection and inheritance of the survival and development of the country and the nation, that is, consolidating the agricultural foundation, protecting the green mountains and rivers, and inheriting the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. Therefore, rural revitalization cannot simply follow the path of urban construction.

To implement the rural revitalization strategy, we do not mean to make the countryside as beautiful as the cities, but to give full play to the unique functions of the countryside, pay attention to environmental protection, pay attention to the local flavor, reflect the characteristics of the countryside, and preserve the rural style.

Looking further, while rural areas play their unique functions, they should also realize the common prosperity of farmers. The report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC put forward many measures, including strengthening agricultural science and technology and equipment support, coordinating the distribution of rural infrastructure and public services, consolidating and improving the basic rural management system, and improving the agricultural support and protection system. At the same time, it was clearly proposed to improve the income guarantee mechanism for grain farmers and the benefit compensation mechanism for major producing areas, and develop rural characteristic industries. We will expand channels for farmers to increase their incomes and get rich. The effective implementation of these policies and measures will surely accelerate the improvement of farmers' wealth.

At the same time, the reality of unbalanced urban and rural development and inadequate rural development in our country cannot be underestimated. The income gap between urban and rural residents is an important indicator to measure the common prosperity of all people. It should be noted that China's economic growth and the distribution pattern of urban and rural residents have been greatly different from that of a decade ago, and the past experience may not be suitable for the present and future. We should lose no time in planning the prospects for the growth of farmers' per capita income and the narrowing of the income gap between urban and rural residents, so that these two targets are commensurate with our country's basic realization of socialist modernization and building into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful.

• Digital countryside to help build a strong agricultural country

The rapid development of digital technology and network technology is of great significance to comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and accelerating the construction of an agricultural power.

The integrated development of urban and rural areas is an important symbol of national modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "China's modernization is very different from that of Western developed countries. Western developed countries are a "series of" development process, industrialization, urbanization, agricultural modernization, information development sequence, development to the current level has taken more than 200 years. We must come from behind and bring back the 'lost 200 years', which determines that China's development is bound to be a' parallel 'process, with industrialization, IT application, urbanization and agricultural modernization developing in superposition."

In the process of industrialization and urbanization, agriculture is the short leg of the "four modernizations in sync". Without agricultural modernization, rural prosperity and strength, and without farmers living and working in peace and contentment, national modernization will be incomplete, incomplete, and weak. To basically achieve socialist modernization by 2035, the main focus will be on rural areas, rural areas, and farmers. We must focus on all-round rural development and push these areas to basically achieve modernization in step with the country. In the past, industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization failed to make use of information technology, but now we have this condition.

The development of information technology for decades, a strong promotion of today's economic and social development, and has been integrated into the field of agriculture, many countries will be agricultural information as a necessary stage of rural construction. It is necessary to increase investment, accelerate the pace of rural Internet construction, expand the effective coverage of optical fiber network and broadband network in rural areas, and put forward that we can do a good job in the deep integration of information technology and industrialization, develop intelligent manufacturing, and drive more people to innovate and start businesses. We can focus on the main direction of agricultural modernization, improve the level of intelligent agricultural production and network management, and help farmers increase their incomes. We can give full play to the advantages of the Internet, implement "Internet plus education", "Internet plus health care", "Internet plus culture", and promote equal access to basic public services. We can give full play to the role of the Internet in promoting poverty alleviation, promote targeted poverty alleviation, so that more people with difficulties can use the Internet, so that agricultural products can go out of the countryside through the Internet, and so that children in the mountains and valleys can receive quality education. We can accelerate the promotion of e-government, encourage government departments at all levels to break information barriers, improve service efficiency, let people run less errands, more information, and solve the problems of difficult, slow, and complicated affairs. The use of several "can" illustrates that informatization has great potential in enabling the development of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", which can not only improve agricultural production conditions, improve farmers' living standards, but also improve the public services accessible to farmers.

The construction of digital countryside is a long-term and complex systematic project, but it must be continuously promoted to explore the huge potential of informatization in rural revitalization. To add the wings of rural revitalization to take off, let digital technology play a greater role in the vast field of the countryside, so that farmers can live a better and happier life, more and more farmers will reap full benefits from the digital development of the countryside, and the construction of an agricultural power will make new progress and take it to a new level.