National Development and Reform Commission: agricultural supply-side structural reform to accelerate progress

Agricultural and Rural Economy Maintaining Steady Development

In the first half of this year, all regions and departments conscientiously implemented the central government's policies to strengthen agriculture and benefit farmers and rich farmers, vigorously promoted the transformation of agricultural structure, and actively promoted the structural reform of agricultural supply side and the reform of rural key areas. The overall development of agricultural production was stable, the infrastructure construction continued to strengthen, the rural industrial integration momentum was good, the farmers' income continued to grow, and the rural reform and innovation were steadily promoted, it has laid a good foundation for the development of rural economy during the 13th Five Year Plan period.

1. agricultural production is generally stable and structural adjustment is proceeding in an orderly manner.

One is the summer grain harvest again. The total output of summer grain was 139.26 million tons, a decrease of 1.621 million tons or 1.2 percent over the previous year, but it was still the second highest in history; the sown area of summer grain was 0.4145 billion mu, an increase of 0.03 percent; and the yield per unit area was 336kg/mu, a decrease of 1.2 percent. It is expected that the area and yield of early rice will decrease slightly this year.

Second, the production of cash crops is basically stable. The output of rapeseed in summer harvest was flat and slightly decreased. The total output is expected to be about 13 million tons, a decrease of 500000 tons over the previous year. Cotton planting continues to be reduced. According to the survey of planting intention of the development and Reform Commission, the sown area of cotton this year is about 56.2 million mu, 5.3 million mu less than that of the previous year. Vegetable production is basically stable. According to the Ministry of Agriculture's monitoring of information monitoring points in 580 key counties, vegetable production in May was flat year-on-year, an increase of 19.3 percent from the previous month.

Third, the production of animal husbandry has steadily declined slightly. In the first half of the year, the output of pigs, cattle, mutton and poultry was 38.53 million tons, down 1.3 percent from the same period last year, of which pork output was 24.73 million tons, down 3.9 percent. There were 402.03 million pigs on hand, down 3.7 percent from the same period last year, and 319.59 million pigs, down 4.4 percent from the same period last year. Since December last year, with the rise in pork prices, pig profits rose for six consecutive months. Affected by the decrease in consumer demand for live pigs in summer, the slaughter price of live pigs fell in June, and the average profit of breeding live pigs was 573 yuan, which was still a historically high level. In June, the stock of breeding sows reversed the previous 30 consecutive months of decline, pig production capacity gradually recovered, and pork supply was guaranteed in the second half of the year.

Fourth, initial results have been achieved in agricultural restructuring. Actively promote the adjustment of planting structure in the "sickle bend" area, and promote the coordinated development of planting and breeding. It is estimated that the corn planting area will be reduced by more than 3000 million mu this year. The control of outstanding problems in the agricultural environment has been further strengthened, the pilot scale of heavy metal pollution of cultivated land and groundwater overexploitation has been further expanded, and pilot projects such as the treatment of reclaimed grasslands in the ecotone of agriculture and animal husbandry, the comprehensive treatment of agricultural non-point source pollution, and the protection of black land in Northeast China have been launched.

The structural reform of the supply side of 2. agriculture has been accelerated, and the reform of key rural areas has been steadily promoted.

First, the agricultural and rural areas to make up for the short board to increase. This year, more than 230 billion yuan will be invested in the central budget for agriculture and rural construction to ensure that the investment in agriculture and rural areas will not weaken and the total amount will increase. Vigorously promote the construction of high-standard farmland. This year, a total of 76 billion million yuan has been allocated from the central government, which can build about 64 million mu of high-standard farmland. The construction of major water conservancy projects is progressing smoothly. Of the 172 major water conservancy projects, 88 have been started. Six projects, including Xiajiang in Jiangxi and Hekou Village in Henan, have been basically completed and brought into full play. Eight main projects, including the second phase of new river regulation in Yongding, Tianjin and Wuxikou, Jiangxi, have been basically completed. Key forestry ecological projects to accelerate the first half of the completed afforestation area of 63.33 million mu. The reform of the "three subsidies" in agriculture and the reform of the integration of agricultural funds have been actively promoted, the benefit compensation mechanism for major grain producing areas has been studied and improved, and the establishment of a green ecology-oriented agricultural subsidy system has been accelerated.

Second, the reform of the agricultural product price formation mechanism has been further deepened. According to the deployment of the State Council, on the basis of basically stabilizing the minimum purchase price of rice and wheat, the minimum purchase price of early indica rice was lowered for the first time in 2016, gradually changing the market expectation of rigid price increase. Promote the reform of the corn purchasing and storage system, and adjust the temporary corn purchasing and storage policy in Northeast China to a new mechanism of "market-oriented acquisition" and "subsidy. We will further promote the pilot reform of the target price of cotton in Xinjiang, Northeast China and Inner Mongolia, reduce operating costs, and ensure that subsidy funds are paid to farmers in full and on time.

Third, pilot reforms in key rural areas have been carried out in an orderly manner. Rural land expropriation, collective operating construction land entering the market, and pilot reforms of the homestead system have been carried out in 33 counties (cities, districts). The ownership of rural collective assets to households and the reform of the joint-stock cooperative system have been promoted in different categories, and the pilot project of farmers' joint-stock cooperation has continued. The innovation of the rural financial system has been actively promoted. Pilot measures for mortgage loans for rural contracted land management rights and farmers' housing property rights have been introduced, pilot projects for mortgage loans for rural collective operating construction land have been launched, agricultural insurance regulations have been revised, and administrative approval items for agricultural insurance market access have been canceled.

3. rural industrial integration has a good momentum of development, and farmers' income continues to grow

First, new models of rural industrial integration and development are emerging. Support for the development of rural industrial integration has been continuously increased. Since last year, the state has allocated a total of more than 21 billion billion yuan of special construction funds to drive social capital of more than 300 billion billion yuan to invest in the construction of rural industrial integration development parks and key projects. Sichuan, Hunan and other provinces have actively promoted the establishment of investment funds for the integrated development of rural industries, further leveraging social capital investment, accelerating the development of efficient, three-dimensional and circular agriculture focusing on the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry and agriculture and fishery, accelerating the integration of industry and city with the integration of rural industries and new urbanization, and the rapid development of "Internet agriculture" supported by information technology and e-commerce, the combination of farming and tourism characterized by pastoral landscape tours, farming experience tours, and folk customs tours is booming.

Second, migrant workers and other personnel are returning to their hometowns to start businesses in the ascendant. Attracted by the national policy of strengthening farmers and benefiting farmers and supporting migrant workers to return to their hometowns to start businesses, some migrant workers have a certain amount of capital or technology accumulation and return to their hometowns to start businesses. Employment, some industrialists and businessmen return to their hometowns to invest in modern agriculture to achieve enterprise transformation and development after completing capital accumulation, agriculture and rural areas are becoming an important area for entrepreneurship and employment and showing their skills. In the first half of the year, the primary industry completed fixed asset investment of 746 billion billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21%, which was 12, 17, and 9 percentage points higher than the growth rate of fixed asset investment in the whole society and the secondary and tertiary industries.

Third, the income of farmers continued to grow. In the first half of the year, the per capita disposable income of rural residents was 6050 yuan, an increase of 6.7 percent in real terms, keeping pace with economic growth. The relative income gap between urban and rural residents has further narrowed, and the per capita disposable income has doubled by 2.80, a 0.03 smaller than the same period last year. Farmers' wage income continued to increase. At the end of the second quarter, the total number of rural migrant workers was 175.09 million, an increase of 730000 over the same period last year. In the first half of the year, the average monthly income of migrant workers was 3202 billion yuan, an increase of 6.7 percent over the same period last year.

While fully affirming the achievements, we must also be soberly aware that the current agricultural and rural economic development is still facing some problems that require great attention. The losses caused by floods continue to increase, and the tight grain storage capacity has increased the risk of farmers' difficulties in selling grain. The impact of weaker prices has gradually emerged, and the slowdown in farmers' income growth urgently needs to create new momentum.

In the second half of the year, we should continue to focus on the stable development of agriculture and the continuous increase of farmers' income, earnestly do a good job in flood control and post disaster recovery, and strive to reduce the losses caused by flood and waterlogging disasters. Coordinate and do a good job in grain purchase and inventory digestion to ensure that there is no "difficulty in selling grain" for farmers ". We will continue to solidly promote the transformation of agricultural structure, and promptly start the implementation of the plan for the rest and recuperation of cultivated land, grasslands, rivers and lakes. We will continue to strengthen the construction of agricultural and rural infrastructure, and actively guide social capital to participate in the construction and operation of rural infrastructure. Vigorously support the development of new formats such as rural industrial integration, and achieve a win-win situation for farmers to become rich and industrial development. We will improve the policy system to support farmers' income growth and ensure that farmers share the fruits of reform and development.