What new signals are released in the first document on "Agricultural New Productivity"?

In 2025, the Central Document No. 1 once again focuses on "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers," drawing up a new blueprint for further deepening rural reform, solidly promoting comprehensive rural revitalization, and accelerating agricultural and rural modernization. So what are the "new signals" in this year's Central Document No. 1? And how will it affect our lives? Let's take a detailed look at the highlights of the Central Document No. 1. Signal one: Reform is more prominent Director of the Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Jin Wencheng: This year's Central Document No. 1 focuses on implementing the decisions of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to promote comprehensive rural revitalization, so the emphasis on "reform" is the strongest! The use of reform is essential to solve the problems and challenges faced by high-quality agricultural and rural development and achieve comprehensive rural revitalization. The key point of the reform is to "deepen the reform of rural land system" and further work on the three key areas: "contracted land," "homesteads," and "collective construction land." For "contracted land," efforts will be made to extend the pilot work of extending the expiration of land contracts for 30 years and further expand the scope of the pilot projects from several provinces to the whole province to ensure the stability and extension of land contracts. For "homesteads," which are the legal houses owned by farmers, ways to activate and utilize them through equity cooperatives. However, while reforming homesteads, it is important to maintain certain red lines and bottom lines, such as preventing urban residents from buying homesteads in rural areas or retired cadres occupying land to build houses. For "collective construction land," reforms will focus on entering the market, with an emphasis on improving the distribution of interests between collectives and farmers to ensure the entry of existing construction land into the market and strictly control the increase, allowing farmers to share property benefits in the process of entering the market. Researcher at the Institute of Macroeconomic Research of the National Development and Reform Commission, Tu Shengwei: This year's Central Document No. 1 highlights "promoting comprehensive rural revitalization through deepening rural reform." The document mentions various reforms, but in essence, they are focused on the three key elements of land, money, and people. Regarding "money," the Central Document No. 1 proposes to "innovate the investment and financing mechanism for rural revitalization" to leverage the role of the government in financial allocation and guide and encourage more financial and social capital to invest in various fields of rural revitalization. Regarding "people," I believe it mainly involves two types of people. The first type is the part of the population willing to stay in rural areas and develop them, for whom we need to improve corresponding mechanisms for cultivation and development to let them fully display their talents in the vast rural areas. The other type is the migrant population, so the document mentions effectively addressing their concerns about education, healthcare, and other issues to help them settle in cities quickly and integrate into urban life. Reform is a systematic task, with reforms needed in terms of people, land, and money, and only by creating a synergistic effect can we ensure the steady progress of comprehensive rural revitalization. Signal two: Firmly uphold the bottom line of food security Director of the Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Jin Wencheng: Placing "food security and the safety and stability of important agricultural products" at the forefront of national security is an important signal. This year's Central Document No. 1 also has a special feature, as it devotes the most space to this issue, accounting for about one-third of the document, covering nine aspects and making systematic arrangements to consolidate and develop the policy system for food security. Among the nine aspects, the top priority is "increasing yield per unit area"! This year, there will be continued efforts to promote large-scale yield increases in grain and oil crops, focusing mainly on: - Expanding the area: Moving from previous focus on individual acres or tens of acres to large-scale promotion across entire townships and counties. - Paying attention to the entire process: Implementing actions to increase yields throughout the entire farming process, from plowing, planting, harvesting, pest control, and management to achieve overall improvements. - Combining the "four goods": Promoting the combination of good fields, good seeds, good machinery, and good practices to drive large-scale yield increases. - Fostering new entities and driving cooperation with small farmers, with new operating entities as important participants in large-scale yield improvement actions. Signal three: Uphold the bottom line of preventing large-scale poverty recurrence Director of the Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Jin Wencheng: This year is the fifth year of consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and effectively connecting them to rural revitalization, marking the final year of the transition period and the closing year. Therefore, this year's Central Document No. 1 focuses on the important node of "the end of the transition period approaching," making systematic arrangements to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation. There is a need to strengthen monitoring to ensure there is no large-scale recurrence of poverty, advance the hierarchical and classified assistance to low-income populations and underdeveloped areas, and plan how to effectively link policies after the transition period. In summary, the task is to "prevent large-scale recurrence of poverty." Vice President of China Agricultural University Lin Wanlong: To firmly prevent large-scale poverty recurrence, one of the most basic tasks is to uphold the bottom line of "three guarantees" and ensure water safety. The "three guarantees" refer to compulsory education, medical care, and housing security. Efforts should also be made to increase support for industrial and employment efforts, to raise the income levels of poverty-stricken populations. Special attention should be paid to relocated households, and their follow-up support policies must be implemented effectively to ensure that they can move out, stay stable, and prosper. Finally, it is crucial to strengthen the effective management of support assets, allowing the large number of support assets formed during the poverty alleviation and transition periods to be effectively and continuously utilized to provide strong support for the transition to comprehensive rural revitalization. Signal four: First mention of "new agricultural productive forces" Director of the Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Jin Wencheng: The connotation of new agricultural productive forces is quite rich, including technologies such as biostimulating breeding, drones, artificial intelligence, and digital technologies that can effectively change the development of agricultural production and play an important role in accelerating the modernization of agriculture. We must seize the opportunity of this technological and industrial revolution and focus on top-level design in developing new productive forces, constructing systems adapted to technological and industrial needs through institutional and policy measures to promote agricultural modernization. Additionally, the Central Document No. 1 mentions deepening the reform of the agricultural science and technology system, promoting the transformation and implementation of scientific and technological achievements, strengthening the construction of rural talent teams, and improving the quality and technological level of rural labor to provide better support and guarantees for agricultural production.Establish an institutional mechanism for the development of quality production forces to support the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. At the same time, we need to build a system for agricultural scientific and technological innovation, enhance the ability and level of scientific and technological innovation, create our own independent innovation platform, and use these platforms to promote the development of new quality production forces, and enable technology to propel the modernization of agriculture and rural areas in our country.Vice President of China Agricultural University Lin Wanlong: An important feature of Chinese-style modernization is a large population in modernization. How to ensure China's food security and the supply of important Shenzhen Agricultural Power Group? In this regard, we need to significantly increase our agricultural productivity. Therefore, the application of modern cutting-edge technology is very important for us, only in this way can we build a "strong agricultural country." Researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission Tu Shengwei: When we talk about new productive forces, the first is technological innovation, the promotion of disruptive technologies, as well as the optimization of resource allocation and the transformation and upgrading of industries. Therefore, we see the application of digital technology in the agricultural field and rural areas. It not only brings changes to traditional production modes but also brings a new development model, that is, the reverse-driving of demand from urban and rural residents, thereby promoting standardized and large-scale agricultural production. Signal five: "Comprehensive Revitalization of Rural Areas under the Background of Rural-Urban Integration" Director of the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Jin Wencheng: This year, the central government specifically emphasized the "development of industry to enrich the people in counties" in the No. 1 central document. Why did this emphasize the counties particularly? Because our country's development of rural-urban integration has entered a new stage, and counties have become a main battlefield for us to promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, serving as a carrier and entry point for promoting rural-urban integration. Vice President of China Agricultural University Lin Wanlong: When we talk about the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, we must be clear that this is under the background of rural-urban integration. So when we talk about industry for enriching the people, we must consider the development of rural industries within the county. Its industrial chain, its industrial infrastructure is not limited to rural areas only, it must be coordinated within the county for development, so the development of industry to enrich the people in the county is actually to promote the development of rural industries. Researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission Tu Shengwei: Developing industries in counties to enrich the people is a good point of connection between rural and urban economies. Only by vigorously developing industries in counties with outstanding advantages, large job opportunities, and significant driving benefits, can we enhance the comprehensive carrying capacity and governance capacity of our counties, thereby promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas. The No. 1 central document of 2025 has sounded the horn for the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. Let us look forward to, under the guidance of policies, the realization of a beautiful vision where the agricultural foundation is more solid, rural areas are more prosperous, and farmers' lives are more prosperous!