On February 23, 2025, the Central Document No. 1 was issued, proposing to further deepen rural reform and solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.
China unveiled its “No. 1 central document” for 2025 on February 23, outlining priorities to deep rural reforms further and solid steps to advance all-around rural revitalization.
On February 20, 2025, in high-standard farmland in Yumin Village, Shizong Town, Tongzhou District, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, farmers drove plant protection machinery to carry out pest control operations on wheat that has entered the rebirth period (drone photos). Image source: Xinhua News Agency
【Knowledge Points】
The Central Document No. 1 originally referred to the first document issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China every year. Now the Central Document No. 1 has become a proper term for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to attach importance to rural issues. From 1982 to 1986, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the Central Document No. 1 with the theme of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” for five consecutive years. Entering this century, from 2004 to 2024, the Central Document No. 1 with the theme of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” was issued for 21 consecutive years, emphasizing the “top priority” of the “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” issues in China’s socialist modernization period. status.
On February 23, 2025, the 13th Central Document No. 1 that guides the “Three Rural Issues” since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was authorized by Xinhua News Agency, proposing to further deepen rural reform and solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. The document is titled “Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Further Deepening Rural Reform and Solidly Promoting the Comprehensive Revitalization of Rural Areas”. The full text has six parts, including: Continuously enhancing the supply guarantee capacity of important agricultural products such as grain, Continuously consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation, and striving to strengthen counties and enrich the people. Industry, focus on promoting rural construction, focus on improving the rural governance system, focus on improving factor guarantees and optimize allocation systems and mechanisms.
The document proposes that to achieve Chinese-style modernization, it is necessary to accelerate the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. Anchoring the goal of promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas and building a strong agricultural country, taking reform and opening up and scientific and technological innovation as the driving force, consolidate and improve the basic rural management system, deeply study and apply the experience of the “Ten Million Project” to ensure national food security and ensure that large-scale poverty relapses Poverty will improve the level of rural industrial development, rural construction, and rural governance, and do everything possible to promote agricultural efficiency, rural vitality, and farmers’ income, providing basic support for promoting Chinese-style modernization.
【Important Speech】
We must comprehensively promote coordinated development of urban and rural areas and improve the coverage of the domestic circulation. Give full play to the important role of rural areas as consumer markets and factor markets, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, promote urbanization construction with county towns as important carriers, promote urban-rural integrated development, enhance urban-rural economic ties, and smooth the urban-rural economic circulation.
Coordinated development between urban and rural areas and between regions should be promoted to increase the coverage of domestic circulation. We should give full play to rural areas as a consumer market and factors market and comprehensively promote rural revitalization. We should also promote urbanization with county towns as a pivot, promote integrated urban and rural development, strengthening economic ties between urban and rural areas, and smooth economic circuitry between urban and rural areas.
——On January 31, 2023, Xi Jinping’s important speech during the second collective study session of the 20th Central Political Bureau
【Related Words】
Comprehensive revitalization of rural areas
all-around rural revitalization
Rural Reform
rural reforms
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