CCTV News: On February 24, the State Council Information Office held a press conference. At the press conference, Han Wenxiu, deputy director in charge of daily work of the Central Finance and Economics Office and director of the Central Rural Affairs Office, introduced the relevant situation of further deepening rural reform and solidly promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.

Han Wenxiu said that on February 23, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Further Deepening Rural Reform and Solidly Promoting the Comprehensive Revitalization of Rural Areas", which is this year's Central Document No. 1, was officially announced to the public. This is the 13th No. 1 document to guide the "Three Rural Issues" work since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. It is another No. 1 document with the theme of promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. It fully reflects the Party Central Committee's consistent high attention to the "Three Rural Issues" work and its firm determination to promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas to the end. It once again sent a strong signal to the whole party and society to emphasize agriculture and strengthen agriculture, and provided policy spring breeze and people's livelihood care to the broad masses of farmers.

In the past year, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, we have overcome serious adverse effects such as natural disasters, and have achieved remarkable results in the work of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers". First, grain and important agricultural products will stabilize and increase production. The grain output reached a new high for the whole year, exceeding 1.4 trillion jin in a historic manner. Soybean production remains above 20 million tons, the "rice bag" is more full, the "vegetable basket" is more abundant, and various agricultural products are provided with abundant supply. Second, the results of poverty alleviation continue to be consolidated and expanded. The growth rate of per capita disposable income of farmers in poverty-stricken counties is higher than the national average, and the scale of employment for people who have been lifted out of poverty has remained stable and increased, firmly maintaining the bottom line of avoiding large-scale relapse into poverty. Third, farmers' income has maintained rapid growth. Last year, the per capita disposable income of rural residents reached 23,119 yuan, an actual increase of 6.3% year-on-year, and the ratio of urban and rural residents' income further narrowed to 2.34:1. Fourth, the construction of livable and business-friendly and beautiful rural areas is being steadily promoted. The shortcomings in rural infrastructure and public services have been accelerated to be filled, with 130,000 kilometers of new and renovated rural roads, the rural tap water penetration rate has reached 94%, the express delivery service coverage rate in established villages has exceeded 95%, and new progress has been made in rural people's livelihood. Fifth, rural society maintains harmony and stability. Party building leads the grassroots governance system to gradually improve, rural mass cultural and sports activities are rich and colorful, changing customs and customs are carried out in depth, and the construction of safe rural areas is steadily promoted. The stable development of agriculture and rural areas has enhanced confidence in responding to various risks and challenges and provided basic support for promoting high-quality economic and social development.

At present, my country's "three rural" development shows many new trends and new characteristics, and faces many new situations and problems, which require systematic planning and effective response. General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on doing a good job in the "three rural" work in 2025, emphasizing the need to adhere to urban-rural integrated development, further deepen rural reform, improve the support system for strengthening agriculture, benefiting farmers and enriching farmers, and comprehensively promote rural revitalization. This year's Central Document No. 1 has thoroughly implemented the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, anchored the goal of promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas and building an agricultural power, and made systematic arrangements for the "three rural" work in the current and future period.

Document No. 1, based on stabilizing the overall pattern of the "three rural" work deployment, will deepen rural reform throughout the whole article. The overall framework can be summarized as "two sustainments and four focus". The "two sustainments" are to continuously enhance the supply guarantee capacity of important agricultural products such as grain and continuously consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation. This is the bottom line task for promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. We must always be firmly guarded to ensure national food security and ensure that large-scale relapse into poverty is not caused. The "four focus" is to focus on strengthening the county-level industries that enrich the people, promote rural construction, improve the rural governance system, and improve factor guarantees and optimize the allocation system and mechanism. These are key tasks for promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. We must refine and implement them in combination with actual conditions, find the entry points and breakthroughs, persist in working hard for a long time, and further improve the level of rural industrial development, rural construction, and rural governance, thereby stimulating the motivation and vitality of rural revitalization.

This year's Central Document No. 1 adheres to the combination of problem-oriented and goal-oriented approaches, highlighting annual, targeted and effective. The document starts with major issues that the Party Central Committee is concerned about and prominent issues that the farmers strongly reflect. It focuses on the present and deploys some important factual things that must be done in the "three rural issues" work in 2025; it also looks at the long-term and strives to improve the long-term mechanism for promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. We believe that by thoroughly implementing the Central Document No. 1, we will surely achieve agricultural efficiency, rural vitality, and farmers' income, and continuously create a new situation in the "three rural" work.