Xinhua News Agency, Harbin, February 25 (Reporter Sun Xiaoyu) The 2025 Central Document No. 1 was released on the 23rd. The full text includes six parts, including grain production, consolidation of poverty alleviation results, county economy, and rural construction. This year's Central Document No. 1 focuses not only on the present, but also 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. The reporter interviewed experts in the agricultural field and interpreted the key points of the document.

This year's Central Document No. 1 proposes to continue to enhance the supply guarantee capacity of important agricultural products such as grain. Deepen the action to improve large-scale yields of grain and oil crops, support the stable development of animal husbandry, strengthen the protection and quality improvement of arable land, promote the coordinated research of agricultural science and technology forces, and strengthen the construction of agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities.

Qian Qian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that my country's grain output exceeded 1.4 trillion jin for the first time in 2024, reaching a new level. In the future, my country's grain demand will continue to grow. We must further improve grain production capacity. We must continue to promote the coordinated research of agricultural science and technology forces, and accelerate the large-scale promotion and application of agricultural science and technology achievements. For example, in breeding, we must accelerate the improvement of seed source innovation capabilities, promote the transformation of breeding technology to digitalization, informatization and intelligence, accelerate the cultivation of breakthrough new varieties, and achieve the improvement of grain yield.

This year's Central Document No. 1 proposes to continue to consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation. We will firmly adhere to the bottom line of preventing large-scale poverty relapse, coordinate the establishment of a rural mechanism to prevent poverty relapse and poverty relapse and a stratified and classified assistance system for low-income and underdeveloped areas, and improve the long-term management mechanism for national investment to form assets in poverty alleviation.

Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the key to consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation and promoting the increase in income and prosperity of rural low-income groups lies in implementing precise policies and effectively improving the pertinence and effectiveness of assistance through layered and classified assistance. For rural low-income groups with working capacity, on the premise of ensuring their basic living needs, they should focus on industrial support, skills improvement and employment guidance to stimulate their endogenous development momentum. For those who are unable to work, we must give full play to the bottom-line role of social security to ensure the basic lives of the needy.

This year's Central Document No. 1 proposes to focus on strengthening the county-level industries to enrich the people. Develop rural characteristic industries, improve the mechanism for connecting farmers to lead farmers, and broaden channels for farmers to increase their income.

Du Zhixiong, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that we must vigorously develop rural characteristic industries, including agriculture. Encourage the development of resilient and competitive rural characteristic industries such as agricultural product processing, rural tourism, and rural e-commerce, so that farmers' income channels can diversify and continuously improve their income levels. Give full play to the leading role of new agricultural operators such as leading enterprises and farmers' professional cooperatives, establish and improve the interest linkage mechanism between farmers and farmers, and increase their participation and influence in the agricultural supply chain while increasing farmers' income.

This year's Central Document No. 1 proposes to focus on promoting rural construction. Coordinate the county-level urban and rural planning layout, promote the extension of infrastructure to rural areas, improve the level of basic public services in rural areas, and strengthen rural ecological environment governance.

Yang Chunhua, deputy director of the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that it is necessary to implement the requirements of rural revitalization for farmers and rural construction for farmers, give full play to the main role of farmers and better play the role of the government, grasp the timing and effectiveness of rural construction, insist on obeying quantity and quality, and follow the effectiveness of progress and effectiveness, and seek good but not speed. Strengthen the construction of public service facilities in rural elderly care, medical care, education, etc., continuously improve the completeness of rural infrastructure, convenience of public services, and comfort of living environment, continuously improve the rural living environment, and accelerate the construction of livable, business-friendly and beautiful villages.

This year's Central Document No. 1 proposes to focus on improving the rural governance system. Strengthen the construction of grassroots party organizations in rural areas, continue to rectify formalism to reduce the burden on grassroots units, strengthen the construction of civilized rural customs, promote the transformation of customs in rural areas, and maintain rural stability and tranquility.

Du Zhixiong said that to promote the modernization of rural governance system and governance capabilities, we must speed up the construction of grassroots party organizations, strengthen their service functions in rural governance by improving the leadership mechanism of grassroots party organizations, and promote further improvement of mechanisms such as villagers' autonomy, village affairs disclosure and democratic decision-making to create a more fair and just governance environment. Use modern information technology to empower rural governance and improve the efficiency and transparency of rural affairs processing.

This year's Central Document No. 1 proposes to focus on improving the guarantee of factors and optimizing the allocation system and mechanism. Stable and improve rural land contract relations, manage and use rural resource assets well, innovate the investment and financing mechanism for rural revitalization, and improve the rural talent cultivation and development mechanism.

Cheng Guoqiang, professor at the School of Agriculture and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, said that it is crucial to focus on improving the system and mechanism for factor guarantees and optimizing the allocation and further deepening rural reform. Rural reform in the new era covers rural economy, politics, culture, society and other aspects, with a wider range and a wider range. We must further strengthen the top-level design and overall planning of rural reform, accelerate the reform of key areas and key links in rural areas, break down the long-term institutional and mechanism barriers that restrict agricultural and rural development, and comprehensively stimulate the vitality of agricultural and rural development. (Design: Ma Zhiyao)