Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Encourage regions to steadily develop new rural collective economies.

The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the economic operation of agriculture and rural areas in the first quarter of 2026. Xu Jianmin, Director of the Assistance Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, stated that in the next step, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will work with relevant departments to effectively promote various measures to increase farmers' income from four aspects. Firstly, promoting income growth through industrial development. Insist on focusing on production capacity, production ecology, increasing production, and increasing income together, coordinate the development of technology agriculture, green agriculture, quality agriculture, and brand agriculture, promote the appropriate sales and high quality of agricultural products. Secondly, promoting income growth through stabilizing employment. Thirdly, deepening reforms to promote income growth. Encourage regions to steadily develop new rural collective economies, and take appropriate measures to revitalize and utilize collective assets resources through autonomous operation, lease operation, and shareholding operation. Explore effective forms of revitalizing idle rural households through methods such as rental, investment, cooperation, and deepen the reform of rural collective property rights system, promote the standardized construction and operation of rural property rights trading market, and enable farmers to gain more property income. Fourthly, effectively utilizing policies to promote income growth.