Plan to Advance Agricultural and Rural Modernization during the 14th Five-Year Plan Period (2021-2025).

This Plan to Advance Agricultural and Rural Modernization during the 14th Five-Year Plan Period (2021-2025) is a plan at national level. The Plan includes the development features, general requirement, major goals, key tasks, major projects and policies of agricultural and rural modernization during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. The Plan outlines that by 2025, supply of grain and other staple agricultural products will be guaranteed, with quality, efficiency and competitiveness of agriculture industry enhanced, and new progress made in rural infrastructure construction. With better rural ecology environment and higher income of rural residents, anti-poverty achievements will be consolidated and expanded by 2025. China is expected to make decisive progress in comprehensive rural revitalization, and generally achieve agricultural and rural modernization by 2035, according to the Plan.
Infrastructure, intelligent agriculture and digital villages are three emphases of the plan. The Plan specifies tasks to stabilize grain acreage, optimize structure of grain species, beef up farmland protection to guard the red line of 1.8 billion mu (120 million hectares) of arable land and promote high-standard farmland construction. Modern husbandry, upgraded fishing industry and development of diversified vegetables, tea and fruits should also be developed to guarantee supply of other major agricultural products. To optimize layout of agricultural production, the nation will enhance construction of functional areas for grain production, protect zones for important agricultural products, and strengthen areas for special agricultural products. Disaster prevention and relief, market adjustment for important agricultural products must be strengthened with stabilized supply chains of international agricultural products to enhance anti-risk ability of the sector. The country will strengthen scientific and technological support for modern agriculture, boost development of seed industry, and improve abilities for agricultural equipment research and application.
The Plan also outlines establishment of a modern rural industry system to keep the main body of industrial chains in county regions to create more jobs and benefits for farmers. Rural construction with more convenient transportation and life, and better services and environment marks another task in the plan, which aims to provide farmers a better living. To modernize rural areas, the country will take steps to make the countryside more livable, greener, and more civilized and harmonious. It also advocates the establishment and application of a rural big data system, as well as in-depth integration between agricultural businesses and a new generation of information technologies, such as internet of things, big data, AI, and block chain. It calls for efforts to build a batch of digital farms, digital irrigation areas and intelligent ranches and fish farms, to constantly improve digital development in the agricultural sector. The Plan proposes to build a "click-and-mortar" digital service system for rural residents, extend the "Internet +" government services to primary levels in rural areas, further enhance the construction of intelligent rural communities, drive rural education, healthcare and culture sectors with digitalization, and make rural governance and services more intelligent and targeted.
According to the Plan, China will push forward transformation of rural production and living into a green and low-carbon style, increase resource utilization efficiency, work for cleaner environment at production places, stable ecological system and harmonious co-existence between man and nature.
Effective connection between consolidation of poverty eradication and rural revitalization, and integrated urban-rural development are also stressed in the Plan.