No.1 Central Document of 2023.

This China’s No.1 Central Document of 2023 is a sectoral policy document. As the first policy statement released by China's central authorities each year, the No.1 Central Document is seen as an indicator of policy priorities. The No.1 Central Document of 2023 outlines key tasks for rural vitalization.
The document calls for enhanced efforts to stabilize production and ensure the supply of grain and important agricultural products, to boost the construction of agricultural infrastructure, to strengthen support for agricultural science, technology, and equipment, to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, and to promote the high-quality development of rural industries. It emphasizes building a beautiful countryside, improving rural governance, and ensuring policy support and innovation. With global uncertainties, China prioritizes self-sufficiency in grain supply and technological independence. Efforts will focus on transforming basic farmland, developing advanced agriculture technologies, and preventing a return to poverty. To ensure the stable production and adequate supply of grain and other important agricultural products, the document underlined efforts to keep annual grain production over 650 billion kg, expand the acreage of soybeans and oil crops, and develop modern facility agriculture. China will make plans for transforming all of its permanent basic farmland to high-quality farmland, invigorate its seed industry and strive to make key technological breakthroughs in agriculture. To these ends, the document calls for more progress in building permanent observation stations and sites for agricultural studies. It also urged the completion of a national census on germ plasm resources and more efforts on developing advanced farm machinery. In addition, the document highlights job creation for those lifted out of poverty, enhancing rural living conditions, and modernizing rural infrastructure.