East China’s Jiangsu province will focus on innovative and leading exploration around agricultural and rural modernization construction, and provide experience and demonstrations for the nation to promote agricultural and rural modernization, according to a document “Jointly Promoting Jiangsu to Take the Lead in Basically Realizing Agricultural and Rural Modernization in 2020” issued recently by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government.
Jiangsu will make arrangements for the work related to agriculture, rural areas and farmers in terms of agriculture, rural areas, modernization of farmers and coordinated development of urban and rural areas in a bid to build the province into a leading area for industrial prosperity, a model area for good governance in rural areas, a demonstration area for people's livelihood, and a pioneering area for urban-rural integration.
In order to achieve the goal of agricultural modernization, Jiangsu will focus on improving the comprehensive production capacity of important agricultural products such as grain and focus on building 8 industries with an output value of 100 billion yuan and cultivating 25 provincial modern agricultural industrial technology systems.
The province will promote the construction of agricultural and rural big data platforms and digital agricultural bases to ensure that its large-scale facility agricultural Internet of Things technology will account for 20% of the total areas and digitalize 65% of agricultural production.
Highlighting the task of rural modernization, Jiangsu will fully complete the three-year action for rural residential environment improvement and the task of building 100 thousand rural houses in northern Jiangsu.
It will also promote social governance in 10 thousand villages, guide the standard construction of pilot counties and villages in rural governance while increase 5 thousand medical and health workers in the rural areas.
In the meantime, Jiangsu will focus on the goals of modernization for the farmers, help farmers gain income growth averaging 10 thousand yuan a year, support 50 thousand farmers to startup businesses, transfer 100 thousand rural laborers to non-agricultural sectors, cultivate 200 thousand high-quality farmers, start vocational skills training for 120 thousand new-generation migrant workers and improve the farmers’ comprehensive quality.
The province will also launch 100 bookstores and stage more than 10 thousand cultural activities in the rural areas.
Efforts will be made to promote the reform of the social mobility system of labor and talents, carry out pilot projects at the provincial-level urban-rural integration development pilot zone, focus on promoting the free flow of urban and rural factors, equal exchanges, and rational allocation of public resources, and build a coordinated development mechanism between urban and rural areas.
（source：ourjiangsu.com）
