China Issues 2025 No.1 Central Policy Document- Key Points and Translation
Yesterday, the Chinese central government published its annual No.1 document(中央一号文件). As part of Chinese political tradition, every year since 2004, the Chinese government has addressed farmers or rural-related issues through its annual "No. 1 Central Document." It’s also a way to highlight the central government’s focus on these matters.
When talking about rural areas, the most important issue is land ownership and the reforms surrounding it. Here is some background on Chinese rural land ownership:
Rural land in China is collectively owned, meaning the land belongs to rural collective economic organizations (village collectives), while farmers only possess land contracts (承包经营权) and use rights (使用权). The consideration behind this "separation of three rights" arrangement (ownership rights, contract rights, and management rights) is mainly to prevent the overconcentration of land while providing an institutional foundation for land transfer and scale operation.
Why? A classic explanation for the fall of ancient Chinese dynasties lies in the irreconcilable contradictions within the land system: over time, lands gradually concentrated in the hands of landlords, reducing the imperial court's tax base and weakening its ruling foundation. To maintain fiscal revenue, the imperial court was forced to increase tax burdens on remaining farmers, compelling more peasants to either seek protection from landlords or rise in rebellion, ultimately creating a vicious cycle that led to the dynasty's collapse.
Learning from this history, when the People's Republic was established in 1949, it deliberately chose collective land ownership over privatization, and even reforms touching that arrangement after opening up have always attracted extra caution.
This year’s No.1 document emphasizes utilizing rural land resources and assets more. In article 26:
Properly manage and utilize rural resources and assets. Solidly carry out the integrated registration and certification of rural residential land and housing rights. Explore effective ways to activate and utilize legally owned rural housing through methods such as rental, shareholding, and cooperation. Urban residents are prohibited from purchasing rural houses and homesteads, and retired officials are not allowed to occupy rural land for housing construction.
管好用好农村资源资产。扎实做好房地一体宅基地确权登记颁证。探索农户合法拥有的住房通过出租、入股、合作等方式盘活利用的有效实现形式。不允许城镇居民到农村购买农房、宅基地，不允许退休干部到农村占地建房。
In 2024, it was
Steadily and prudently advance the reform of rural homestead system. Deepen the reform of rural collective property rights system, promote the healthy development of new forms of rural collective economy, while strictly controlling operational risks in rural collective enterprises.
稳慎推进农村宅基地制度改革。深化农村集体产权制度改革，促进新型农村集体经济健康发展，严格控制农村集体经营风险。
Jin Wencheng, Director of the Rural Economy Research Center from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, believes this enabled rural residents to move into the urban area while keeping a fallback option. It’s also often referred to as "keeping one foot in the countryside" (留住农村的一条根). It’s also interesting to see they specifically emphasize preventing urban residents from buying land for real estate purposes. This comes at a time when "rural living" has gained popularity among urban retirees, who increasingly seek to rent countryside homes near cities to enjoy a more pastoral lifestyle.(a 20 year lease with about half million RMB)
Beyond land use reform, this year's document puts increased emphasis on the application of hard technologies in agriculture. While the 2024 policy document focused on industrializing seed breeding and cultivating talent through traditional agricultural universities, like
Strengthen the cultivation and utilization of agricultural scientific talent and rural highly-skilled personnel.
强化农业科技人才和农村高技能人才培养使用
Intensify research efforts on key core technologies for seed sources, and accelerate the breeding and promotion of urgently needed indigenous superior varieties for production.
加大种源关键核心技术攻关，加快选育推广生产急需的自主优良品种
The 2025 version places a stronger emphasis on integrating industrial technologies into agriculture - particularly the deployment of drones, AI, and other advanced technologies in farming operations (which brings to mind applications such as automated drone seeding and irrigation systems).
Support the development of smart agriculture by expanding the implementation of artificial intelligence, data technologies, and low-altitude operations across various agricultural scenarios.
支持发展智慧农业，拓展人工智能、数据、低空等技术应用场景。
Using financial tools is also among this year’s key points. Regarding monetary policy tools, the 2025 document provides more specific measures, explicitly mentioning the use of re-lending, rediscounting, and differentiated reserve requirement ratios to encourage financial institutions to increase funding for rural revitalization.
In terms of financial product innovation, the 2025 document introduces new support for issuing special "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" financial bonds and rural revitalization bonds. It also promotes new forms of mortgage financing, particularly highlighting loans using livestock and agricultural facilities as collateral. For rural financial institution reform, the document introduces a "one province, one policy" approach to accelerate rural credit cooperative reform. It also adds new requirements for steady and orderly reform and restructuring of village and township banks while emphasizing the role of rural small and medium-sized banks in supporting agriculture and small businesses.
Of course, these are not without stricter supervision, It also talked about risk control measures by enhancing the collection and sharing of agricultural credit information, cracking down on illegal rural financial activities, and strengthening whole-process supervision of agricultural fund projects. It addressed issues such as fraud and misappropriation of rural benefit funds.
Below is the translation of this year’s document:
Opinion of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Further Deepening Rural Reform and Solidly Advancing Comprehensive Rural Revitalization
Achieving Chinese-style modernization requires accelerating comprehensive rural revitalization. Currently, while agriculture continues to yield abundant harvests and rural areas remain harmonious and stable, the international environment is complex and severe, with increasing uncertainties and unpredictable factors facing our nation's development. The greater the risks and challenges we face, the more we must strengthen the foundation of work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers ("three rural" issues).
For "three rural" work in 2025 and beyond, we must be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress and the Second and Third Plenums of the 20th Central Committee, thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourses and directives on "three rural" work, maintain and strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership over "three rural" work, comprehensively and accurately implement the new development concept, adhere to the general principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, prioritize agricultural and rural development, promote integrated urban-rural development, and uphold both tradition and innovation.
With reform, opening up, and technological innovation as driving forces, we must anchor our goals of advancing comprehensive rural revitalization and building a strong agricultural nation, consolidate and improve the basic rural operating system, thoroughly study and apply the experience of the "千万工程",（The "Demonstration in a Thousand Villages, Improvement in Ten Thousand Villages" Project (abbreviated as the "Thousand-Ten Thousand Project") ensure national food security, prevent large-scale return to poverty, enhance rural industrial development, construction, and governance levels, and use every possible means to increase agricultural efficiency, rural vitality, and farmers' income, thereby providing fundamental support for advancing Chinese-style modernization.
I. Continuously Strengthen Supply Security Capacity for Grain and Other Important Agricultural Products
(1) Deeply advance efforts to improve the large-scale unit yield of grain and oil crops. Maintain stable grain planting area and focus on improving unit yield and quality to ensure stable and abundant grain production. Further expand the scale of grain yield improvement projects, strengthen the promotion of high-yield and high-efficiency integrated models, advance water and fertilizer integration, and promote large-scale production increases. Intensify efforts to achieve the new round of trillion-jin grain production capacity enhancement. Take multiple measures to consolidate soybean expansion results, explore the potential for expanding rapeseed and peanut production, and support the development of oil tea and other woody oil crops. Promote stable production and quality improvement of cotton, sugar crops, and natural rubber.
(2) Support stable development of animal husbandry. Effectively monitor and regulate pig production capacity to promote stable development. Advance relief measures for beef and dairy cattle industries to stabilize basic production capacity. Implement national standards for sterilized milk and support integrated development of dairy farming and processing led by family farms and farmer cooperatives. Strictly enforce pig slaughter quarantine supervision and strengthen prevention and control of major animal diseases and key zoonotic diseases. Enhance forage production capacity and accelerate transformation and upgrading of grassland animal husbandry.
(3) Strengthen farmland protection and quality improvement. Strictly control total arable land and implement "occupation-compensation balance," including all types of farmland occupation under the unified management of occupation-compensation balance, ensuring a dynamic balance of annual total arable land within provinces. Improve supplementary farmland quality evaluation and acceptance standards. Continue rectifying issues like "greenhouse houses," illegal lake construction, and unauthorized housing on farmland, and resolutely curb illegal actions damaging farmland. Establish a basic crop catalog and monitoring system for farmland planting purposes. Systematically address "non-grain" conversion of farmland, set necessary transition periods considering industry development reality and crop growth cycles. Advance high-quality construction of high-standard farmland, optimize construction content, improve mechanisms for farmers' full-process participation in project implementation, and strengthen full-process supervision of engineering quality. Steadily promote the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land pilots, strengthen the treatment of erosion gullies in northeastern black soil areas, and acidified degraded farmland in southern regions. Promote classified reclamation of abandoned land. Under the premise of ensuring provincial farmland protection tasks are not reduced, steadily and orderly withdraw unstable farmland affecting flood safety in river channels. Strengthen protection of traditional terraced fields.
(4) Advance collaborative agricultural technology research. Use technological innovation to lead the aggregation of advanced production factors and develop new agricultural productivity according to local conditions. Target accelerated breakthroughs in key core technologies, strengthen coordination of agricultural research resources, and cultivate leading agricultural technology enterprises. Deeply implement seed industry revitalization actions, leverage major agricultural research platforms like "Nanfan Silicon Valley," and accelerate development of breakthrough varieties. Continue promoting industrialization of biological breeding. Promote high-quality development of agricultural machinery and equipment, accelerate R&D and application of advanced domestic agricultural equipment, and promote replacement of old machinery. Support smart agriculture development and expand application scenarios for artificial intelligence, data, and low-altitude technologies.
(5) Strengthen agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities. Enhance meteorological services for agriculture, strengthen disaster risk monitoring and early warning, effectively utilize regional agricultural socialized service centers and other forces to minimize disaster losses. Build modern flood control and disaster reduction systems, comprehensively conduct reinforcement of dangerous reservoirs, strengthen management of small and medium-sized rivers and construction/renovation of large and medium-sized irrigation districts, advance construction of key facilities in flood storage areas and reform management mechanisms. Strengthen waterlogging control in plain areas, advance construction of agricultural water conservancy facilities and channel improvement, accelerate restoration of disaster-damaged farmland and irrigation/drainage facilities. Strengthen farmland shelter forest construction. Effectively conduct crop pest monitoring, early warning and unified prevention and control. Enhance forest and grassland fire prevention and control capabilities.
(6) Improve grain production support policy system. Implement minimum purchase price policies for rice and wheat, improve corn and soybean producer subsidies and rice subsidy policies, stabilize farmland fertility protection subsidy policies. Reduce the proportion of county-level premium subsidies for agricultural insurance in major grain-producing counties, promote expansion of full-cost insurance and planting income insurance coverage for rice, wheat, corn and soybeans. Encourage local pilot programs for special grain and oil planting loan interest subsidies. Improve reward and subsidy incentive systems for main grain-producing areas, increase support for major grain-producing counties. Launch implementation of inter-provincial horizontal benefit compensation for grain production and sales areas under central coordination, properly manage fund raising and distribution. Gradually expand the scope of public service capacity enhancement actions in major grain-producing counties.
(7) Perfect agricultural product trade and production coordination mechanisms. Take comprehensive measures to maintain reasonable prices for grain and other important agricultural products, stabilize market supply and demand, protect grain farmers' enthusiasm, and safeguard farmers' interests. Severely crack down on agricultural product smuggling and other illegal activities. Strengthen port biosecurity systems. Improve agricultural product industry damage early warning systems. Orderly conduct grain procurement and strengthen supervision of grain reserves. Enhance agricultural product market information release and expectation guidance.
(8) Construct a diversified food supply system. Practice broad views on agriculture and food, develop food resources through multiple channels. Strengthen construction of vegetable emergency supply bases, implement modern agricultural facility renewal projects around large and medium-sized cities. Promote high-quality fishery development, support deep-sea and offshore aquaculture, build marine ranches. Develop forest foods, enrich the "forest granary." Promote quality and efficiency improvement in edible fungus industry, promote algae food development. Cultivate and develop biological agriculture, explore new food resources. Accelerate establishment of grain and comprehensive food statistical monitoring systems. Strengthen food safety and agricultural product quality safety supervision, deepen control of agricultural product drug residues, promote reduced use of veterinary antimicrobials.
(9) Establish long-term mechanisms for grain and food conservation. Solidly advance grain conservation and anti-food waste actions, establish and improve incentive and constraint mechanisms. Strongly advocate healthy diets, strengthen guidance on oil use in public cafeterias and catering institutions, promote reduced oil, salt and sugar diets and whole grain consumption. Promote grain mechanical harvest loss reduction, appropriate processing and scientific storage.
II. Continuously Consolidate and Expand Poverty Alleviation Achievements
(10) Maintain the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty. Continuously consolidate and improve the "three guarantees" (housing, education, healthcare) and drinking water safety achievements, strengthen post-relocation support, and prevent ideological and work relaxation. Enhance monitoring and assistance effectiveness for preventing return to poverty, promptly include households at risk of returning to poverty in assistance programs. Deeply implement employment-focused actions to prevent return to poverty, enhance employment absorption capacity of assistance workshops, maintain stable employment scale and income for people who have escaped poverty. Following principles of consolidation, upgrading, revitalization, and adjustment, improve quality and efficiency of assistance industries by category. Deeply implement "group-style" assistance by technical, medical, and educational personnel. Strengthen management of consumption assistance platforms and products.
(11) Establish comprehensive rural mechanisms to prevent return to poverty and layered assistance systems for low-income populations and underdeveloped regions. Conduct overall assessment of poverty alleviation achievements' consolidation and rural revitalization connection, research and formulate post-transition period assistance policy system. Comprehensively identify rural low-income populations and those at risk of returning to poverty. Focus on stimulating internal motivation, strengthen development-oriented assistance for rural low-income populations with labor capacity, enhance social assistance safety nets, support revitalization of underdeveloped regions, establish layered assistance systems, and provide differentiated support through east-west cooperation and targeted assistance mechanisms.
(12) Establish long-term management mechanisms for assets formed by national poverty alleviation investments. Comprehensively investigate assets formed by national poverty alleviation investments, establish unified asset registration management accounts. Formulate assistance project asset management measures, improve full-process supervision systems for asset formation, rights confirmation and transfer, management and operation, and benefit distribution, promote value preservation and appreciation of operational assets and sustained effectiveness of public welfare assets. Improve asset classification and disposal systems, support local revitalization of inefficient idle assets.
III. Focus on Strengthening County-level Industries for People's Prosperity
(13) Develop distinctive rural industries. Adhere to market principles, vigorously develop green and distinctive agricultural products cultivation and breeding, promote transformation and upgrading of agricultural processing industry, implement agricultural brand excellence cultivation plan, create distinctive agricultural industry clusters, enhance agricultural industrialization level. Deeply implement rural industry integration development projects, cultivate new rural industries and business forms. Promote deep integration of rural culture and tourism, conduct cultural industry empowerment pilots for rural revitalization, enhance specialization, refinement, and standardization of rural tourism. Accelerate construction of modern distribution networks for agricultural products and materials, support various entities in collaborative supply chain construction. Promote high-quality development of rural e-commerce.
(14) Improve mechanisms linking and benefiting farmers. Improve linkage mechanisms between support policies for new agricultural business entities and increasing farmer household income, make farmer linkage and benefits a key basis for policy preference. Guide enterprises, farmer cooperatives, family farms and farmers to closely unite and cooperate through guaranteed dividends, shareholding participation, service driving and other methods, allowing farmers to share more industrial value-added benefits. Regulate and guide social investment in agriculture and rural areas, improve risk prevention mechanisms.
(15) Broaden farmers' income channels. Guide farmers to develop industry projects suitable for family operations, develop courtyard economy, under-forest economy, and homestay economy according to local conditions. Increase support for employment stabilization policies, strengthen employment services and labor cooperation, cultivate and promote distinctive labor service brands. Advance household services for rural prosperity action. Strengthen employment support for older migrant workers. Promote comprehensive coverage and effective operation of migrant workers' wage payment guarantee system, legally rectify various wage arrears issues. Develop distinctive county economies, support development of labor-intensive industries that benefit people, promote nearby employment and income increase for farmers. Implement special digital rural actions to strengthen, benefit and enrich farmers. Expand implementation scale of work-relief projects, promote work-relief in key engineering projects and agricultural rural infrastructure construction.
IV. Focus on Advancing Rural Construction
(16) Coordinate county-level urban-rural planning layout. Following population change trends, promote organic combination of comprehensive rural revitalization and new urbanization, leverage spatial coordination and resource guarantee role of county and township territorial space planning, promote integration of urban-rural industrial development, infrastructure, and public services. Improve quality and effectiveness of village planning, without requiring full coverage of village planning; for villages not requiring planning, provide control guidance through county and township territorial space planning or issue general management regulations. Reasonably determine village construction priorities and sequence, coordinate construction and management, explore region-specific rural construction models. Under the premise of maintaining total farmland area and basic permanent farmland layout stability, conduct comprehensive land improvement with county as coordination unit and township as basic implementation unit.
(17) Extend infrastructure to rural areas. Categorically advance urban-rural water supply integration, centralized water supply scaling, and small-scale water supply standardization; where conditions permit, implement county-level unified management and professional maintenance of rural water supply. Implement new round of rural road improvement actions, conduct risk investigation and rectification of rural roads, bridges and tunnels, continuously promote high-quality development of "four-good rural roads." Consolidate achievements in passenger vehicle access to qualified townships and administrative villages, improve rural waterway transportation conditions, advance integrated development of rural passenger, cargo and postal services. Deepen express delivery to villages, strengthen construction of village-level delivery and logistics comprehensive service stations. Deepen county-level commercial system construction, support chain operations layout in county markets, promote extension of cold chain distribution and instant retail to townships. Promote trade-in of rural consumer goods, improve recycling networks for waste household appliances. Consolidate and enhance rural power supply levels, strengthen rural distributed renewable energy development and utilization, encourage construction of public charging facilities where conditions permit. Enhance universal telecommunication service levels in rural areas. Continue implementing rural dilapidated housing renovation and earthquake resistance improvement, properly handle post-disaster housing reconstruction.
(18) Improve rural basic public service levels. Optimize regional education resource allocation, enhance boarding school conditions and management levels including fire safety, maintain necessary small rural schools. Comprehensively strengthen management of rural compulsory education student nutrition improvement program, ensure food safety and standardized use of funds. Focus on personnel deployment to advance construction of closely-knit county-level medical communities, enhance service capacity of central township health centers, promote telemedicine service system construction. Strengthen rural infectious disease control and emergency response capacity, deeply conduct national fitness and patriotic health campaigns. Improve long-term basic medical insurance participation mechanisms, increase next year's maximum payment limit for serious illness insurance for rural residents with continuous participation and zero claims in current year. Gradually increase basic pension for urban and rural residents' basic pension insurance. Improve county-township-village three-level elderly care service network, conduct county-level elderly care service system innovation pilots, encourage village-level mutual assistance elderly care services. Develop rural infant care services. Expand coverage of minor protection institutions, improve care service quality for left-behind and disadvantaged children. Strengthen protection and rehabilitation assistance for disabled persons.
(19) Strengthen rural environmental governance. Deeply fight agricultural and rural pollution control battle, continuously advance rural living environment improvement, build beautiful villages. Improve rural toilet renovation implementation mechanisms, perfect socialized management and service systems. Select appropriate rural domestic sewage treatment models according to local conditions, promote coordinated treatment of toilet waste and domestic sewage, basically eliminate large-scale black and odorous water bodies in rural areas. Promote rural domestic waste source reduction, local treatment and resource utilization. Strengthen systematic treatment in prominent agricultural non-point pollution areas, enhance resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure and aquaculture tail water treatment. Advance safe utilization of contaminated farmland, strengthen tracing and treatment of heavy metal pollution in agricultural land. Support comprehensive utilization of crop stalks, precisely delineate burning prohibition areas, and legally implement burning control requirements. Vigorously advance the Great Green Wall, strengthen resource coordination and joint prevention and control, and enhance comprehensive sand prevention and control effects. Strengthen grassland ecological protection and restoration. Advanced ecological clean small watershed construction. Firmly advance ten-year fishing ban in Yangtze River, strengthen endangered species rescue and important habitat ecological restoration in Yangtze River.
V. Focus on Improving Rural Governance Systems
(20) Strengthen rural grassroots Party organizations. Deeply advance rural revitalization through Party building, maintain Party building's leading role in grassroots governance, and enhance the leadership capacity of grassroots Party organizations. Maintain the stability of county-level Party and government leadership terms, continuously strengthen township leadership teams and cadre forces, and focus on solving young cadres' adaptation issues at the rural grassroots level. Successfully conduct national village "two committees" elections, concentrate on rectifying weak and disorganized village Party organizations, promote first secretaries and work teams to fulfill their responsibilities. Strengthen education and training of rural Party members and cadres. Improve grassroots supervision systems and strictly manage and supervise village cadres, especially those holding multiple positions. (“一肩挑” refers to one person serving as both the Party branch secretary and village committee chair, along with other key village leadership positions, hence the Chinese metaphor of "carrying multiple responsibilities on one shoulder.") Further improve village affairs transparency and democratic discussion systems, support multiple channels for farmers' participation in village-level consultations. Continuously deepen rectification of misconduct and corruption in rural revitalization, solidly conduct village inspections, and refine and improve new-era rural grassroots cadres' integrity standards.
(21) Continuously rectify formalism to reduce grassroots burden. Comprehensively establish township (street) duty item lists, strengthen supervision and evaluation of implementation, improve dynamic adjustment mechanisms. Establish long-term strict control mechanisms for borrowing staff from county and township levels. Strictly control inspections and assessments at the grassroots level, streamline and optimize agricultural assessments. Consolidate results of cleaning up "one-vote veto" and responsibility statement items. Clean up and integrate government applications targeting the grassroots level, continuously deepen rectification of "formalism at fingertips." Promote "multiple grid integration" in rural grassroots grid governance. Through "reducing above and supplementing below" and other methods, promote allocation of administrative resources to townships (streets), strengthen classified management, and coordinate use.
(22) Strengthen construction of civilized rural customs. Further strengthen new era rural spiritual civilization construction, enhance ideological and political guidance, implement civilized rural customs construction projects, promote deeper penetration of Party's innovative theories and widespread practice of socialist core values. Cultivate new era trends, deepen practical activities like "I Do Practical Things for the Masses," promote harmonious family and neighborly relations construction. Strengthen ethnic unity and progress publicity and education, forge consciousness of Chinese nation community. Establish mechanisms for quality cultural resources to reach grassroots, enrich rural cultural services and product supply, innovatively conduct cultural benefit activities like "Opera to Villages," strengthen support for local cultural talents, guide healthy development of mass cultural and sports activities. Advance construction of traditional village characteristic protection areas, strengthen protection, inheritance and active utilization of rural cultural heritage, deeply implement rural cultural relics protection projects.
(23) Promote rural customs reform. Advance comprehensive governance of high bride price issues in rural areas, leverage roles of the Women's Federation, Communist Youth League, and other organizations, strengthen public marriage services, and care for rural marriageable groups. Increase crackdown on illegal activities like marriage fraud. Strengthen standardized management of ancestral halls. Deepen funeral reform and promote the construction of public welfare ecological burial facilities. Continuously rectify prominent issues like comparison of social favors, extravagant ceremonies, neglect of elderly care, scattered burials, improve constraining norms, and advocating standards. Regulate rural performance market, deeply rectify vulgar performances. Strengthen rural science popularization positions and oppose feudal superstition.
(24) Maintain rural stability and tranquility. Uphold and develop new era "Fengqiao Experience," strengthen investigation and resolution of rural conflicts and disputes, improve information sharing and collaborative solution mechanisms, create positive and healthy social atmosphere. Improve normalized mechanisms for combating organized crime in rural areas, prevent and curb the growth of "village tyrants" and clan-based criminal forces. Strengthen rural religious affairs management. Deeply combat and rectify rural gambling, build strong rural drug prevention lines, and severely crack down on economic crimes like pyramid schemes and fraud in agricultural areas. Improve rural emergency management organizational systems, strengthen source control and investigation rectification of safety risks in rural road traffic, gas, fire prevention, self-built houses and other areas.
VI. Focus on Improving Resource Guarantee and Optimization Allocation Systems and Mechanisms
(25) Stabilize and improve rural land contract relationships. Adhere to "major stability, minor adjustments," orderly advance pilots for thirty-year extension after second-round land contracts expire, expand the province-wide pilot scope, properly resolve extension-related conflicts, and ensure most farmers' contracted land continues and remains stable. Improve management service systems for contracted land operation rights transfer and prohibit pushing land transfer through quotas or assigned tasks. Encourage transfer fee stabilization at reasonable levels through publishing transfer price indices and in-kind rent calculation. Cultivate new agricultural business entities, improve agricultural socialized service quality and effectiveness, and enhance the ability to lead farmers.
(26) Properly manage and utilize rural resources and assets. Solidly complete unified registration and certification of rural homestead rights including both house and land. Explore effective ways for farmers to activate legal housing through rental, shareholding, cooperation, and other methods. Prohibit urban residents from purchasing rural houses and homesteads, and prohibit retired officials from occupying rural land for house construction. Orderly advance reform of rural collective operational construction land entering the market, improve income distribution and rights protection mechanisms. Develop a new rural collective economy according to local conditions, avoid rigid collective income targets, and strictly control collective operation risks and debt. Continuously deepen special governance of rural collective funds, assets, and resources management. Advance standardized management and rational utilization of newly added farmland.
(27) Innovate rural revitalization investment and financing mechanisms. Prioritize general public budget input in agriculture and rural areas and strengthen performance management incentives and constraints. Increase support for major agricultural and rural projects through central budget investment, ultra-long-term special treasury bonds, and local government special bonds. Use monetary policy tools like re-lending, rediscounting,and differentiated reserve requirements to promote financial institutions' increased funding for rural revitalization. Support financial institutions' issuance of special "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" financial bonds. Encourage qualified enterprises to issue rural revitalization bonds. Deeply advance rural credit system construction, strengthen agricultural credit information collection and sharing. Promote livestock and agricultural facility mortgage financing loans. Maintain rural small and medium banks' position supporting agriculture and small businesses, accelerate rural credit cooperative reform with "one province one policy," steadily and orderly advance village and township bank reform and restructuring. Improve multi-level agricultural insurance system and support the development of specialty agricultural product insurance. Severely crackdown on rural illegal financial activities. Strengthen whole-process supervision of agricultural funds and projects, focusing on rectifying fraud and misappropriation of rural benefit funds.
(28) Improve rural talent cultivation and development mechanisms. Implement a rural revitalization talent support plan, strengthen farmer technical skills training, and expand rural professional and practical talent teams. Advance rural craftsman cultivation project. Optimize and adjust agricultural-related disciplines based on industry demands. Enhance agricultural-related vocational education and encourage vocational schools to form industry-education alliances with agricultural enterprises. Solidly advanced grassroots service projects like "Three Supports and One Assistance," science and technology special commissioners, special position plan, and college student volunteer service western plan. Deeply implement rural women's dream-chasers plan(Women's vocational education) and rural revitalization youth contribution action. Support science and technology small institutes to take root in rural areas helping farmers. Encouraging college-graduate doctors to go to rural areas. Encourage and guide urban talents to serve rural areas, and improve evaluation, appointment, and incentive mechanisms.
(29) Coordinate advancement of forestry, state farms, and supply and marketing cooperative reforms. Deepen collective forest rights system reform, adjust and optimize forest harvesting management system, grant rights holders more complete disposal and income rights over forest resources. Deepen state farm reform, improve asset supervision and corporate governance mechanisms. Perfect state-owned agricultural land rights system, promote standardized management and utilization. Advance comprehensive reform of supply and marketing cooperatives. Deepen agricultural water price comprehensive reform and water rights reform, strengthen water use management, continuously advance groundwater over-extraction treatment, promote application of water-saving irrigation technologies.
(30) Improve urbanization mechanisms for agricultural transfer population. Link transfer payments, new construction land quotas, infrastructure investment with agricultural population urbanization. Improve national unified household registration management service platform, implement basic public services provision based on permanent residence registration. Encourage qualified cities to gradually include stable employed agricultural transfer population in urban housing security policies. Further increase proportion of migrant children receiving compulsory education in public schools at destination. Completely remove household registration restrictions for social insurance participation at employment location. Legally protect land contract rights, homestead use rights, and collective income distribution rights of farmers settling in cities, explore establishing voluntary compensated exit methods.
Success in rural affairs and comprehensive rural revitalization depends on Party leadership. Must persistently maintain solving "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" issues as top priority of entire Party's work, strengthen political responsibility of five levels of Party secretaries for rural revitalization, improve urban-rural integrated development mechanisms, perfect support systems benefiting agriculture and farmers, promote deep implementation of "Ten Million Project" experience, improve long-term mechanisms for comprehensive rural revitalization. Maintain historical patience, do our best within our capabilities, concentrate on successfully completing key practical matters, let farmer masses tangibly benefit. Fully implement the "four down to grassroots" system, follow the new era Party mass line, and strengthen Party-masses and cadre-masses relationships. Adhere to rural realities, fully respect farmers' wishes, improve work methods, and prevent policy implementation oversimplification and "one-size-fits-all" approaches. Encourage local practice exploration and reform innovation, fully mobilize Party members, cadres, and farmer masses' initiative, and stimulate rural revitalization vitality.
("Four Down to Grassroots" ("四下基层") system refers to four key tasks that officials must carry out at the grassroots level:
Publicity down to grassroots - Promoting and explaining Party's lines, guidelines, and policies at grassroots level
Research down to grassroots - Conducting investigations and research at grassroots level
Petition reception down to grassroots - Handling complaints and petitions at grassroots level
On-site work down to grassroots - Conducting office work and solving problems on-site at grassroots level)
Let us unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, maintain confidence, overcome difficulties, work practically and persistently, accelerate agricultural and rural modernization, promote a more solid agricultural foundation, more prosperous rural areas, better farmer lives, and advance steadily toward building an agricultural strong country.