Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Solidly improve per unit area output, fully achieve the expected target of around 1.4 trillion jin of grain production for the full year.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Jun chaired the executive meeting of the Ministry on July 15, analyzing the current agricultural and rural situation and re-deploying and promoting key agricultural and rural work for the second half of the year. The meeting emphasized the need to focus on target tasks, implement them with greater intensity, effectively manage the early harvest of rice and agricultural disaster prevention and reduction, strengthen the construction of high-standard farmland and irrigation channels, implement large-scale single yield increase, and fully achieve the expected target of around 1.4 trillion catties of grain production for the whole year. The meeting also stressed the need to continue consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation efforts, satisfactorily complete the objectives for the last year of the transition period, and firmly guard against the bottom line of no large-scale return to poverty. It is important to focus on outstanding issues, implement corrective measures more rigorously, and intensify the special rectification work on high-standard farmland construction, supervision of funds for rural revitalization, and management of rural collective assets. It is necessary to improve the long-term mechanisms for discovering problems, warning of risks, and responding to situations, further urging local authorities to fulfill their responsibilities and carry out their work effectively. It is crucial to address key constraints, solve difficult problems more practically, continuously advance key core agricultural technologies, vigorously cultivate leading agricultural technology enterprises, accelerate the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements, and effectively address the underlying issues in the high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas. It is important to focus on practical needs, improve efficiency with innovative ideas, deepen the application of experiences from the "Million Engineer" project, focus on nurturing rural industrial clusters, guide localities to carry out rural construction according to local conditions, strengthen and improve rural governance, and build livable, employment-friendly, and beautiful rural areas. Paying attention to strategic matters, seek development with a broader perspective, and formulate high-quality planning for the agricultural and rural areas during the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan", plan a series of major projects and actions. It is essential to focus on bottom lines and red lines, prevent risks through finer work, guide localities to accurately understand policy requirements, resolutely rectify the illegal occupation of arable land for building houses, prevent the resurgence of "greenhouse houses" and "houses with small property rights", and effectively improve agricultural safety production.