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Consecutive No 1 central documents target rural issues
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-01 17:35
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-- The No 1 central document issued on Feb 21, 2006, took "constructing a new socialist countryside" as its theme.
The document said "constructing a new socialist countryside is an important historic task in the process of China's modernization."
The document stressed the importance of rural issues, saying the resolution to rural issues was of great significance and difficulty in the process of China's industrialization and urbanization.
Constructing a new socialist countryside was the foremost task facing China in the 2006-2010 five-year period, said the document.
To achieve the goals, China must step up efforts in coordinating the development of urban and rural areas, developing modern agriculture, boosting farmers' incomes, enhancing rural infrastructure, promoting social causes in rural areas and deepening rural reforms, it said.
-- The No 1 central document issued on Jan 30, 2005, took "strengthening rural work and improving the overall production capacity of agriculture" as its theme.
To solve the problems, China should bring into full play the farmers and local governments' initiatives of increasing grain production. The document included 27 detailed substantial measures to ensure financial, governmental and technological support for the agriculture sector with an aim to improve agricultural production capacity.
-- The No 1 central document issued Feb 8, 2004, took "boosting farmers' incomes" as its theme.
The document said, "Among the many problems facing agricultural and rural development, the difficulty of increasing farmers' incomes is the most prominent."
The document prescribed a number of measures, stressing raising farmer's incomes was a significant issue both economically and politically and raising agricultural incomes was key to maintaining China's economic growth. The measures included adjusting agricultural structure, increasing jobs for farmers, enhancing rural investment, deepening rural reform, and quickening agriculture-related science and technology.
