Rural public infrastructure construction is the key to rural revitalization

If the nation is to be revived, the countryside will be revitalized

The Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and The State Council on Comprehensively Promoting Rural Revitalization and Accelerating the Modernization of Agriculture and Rural Areas clearly point out that the most arduous and onerous task of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is still in the countryside, and the broadest and deepest foundation is still in the countryside. The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to the issues of "agriculture, rural areas", takes "agriculture, rural areas" as the top priority in the work of the Party and the state, and has issued the "No. 1 document" on "agriculture, rural areas" for 18 consecutive years since the 21st century. At a critical moment when the world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century and China has entered a new stage of development, the CPC Central Committee once again issued a mobilization order for "rural revitalization" in the form of the "No. 1 Document", which shows the importance of rural revitalization in comprehensively building a modern socialist country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It can be said that if the nation wants to revive, the countryside will be revitalized. Without the revitalization of the countryside, it is difficult to rejuvenate the nation.

First, the foundation for strengthening food security as the foundation of national security lies in rural areas. The people depend on food, the country is unstable without food, and the people are restless without food. Grain is the lifeblood of the national economy, although China's grain production for many years to maintain more than 1.3 trillion catty, the main grain basically achieved self-sufficiency, per capita grain has exceeded 470 kg, but the foundation of food production is still very weak, arable land quality is low, still need a large number of imports of soybeans, corn and so on. China, with a population of more than 1.4 billion, only by firmly holding the red line of cultivated land and keeping the rice bowl firmly in its own hands can it effectively guard against all kinds of risks and challenges in the midst of profound changes unseen in the world in a century, and lay a solid foundation for ensuring overall national stability.

Second, the difficult task of consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation lies in rural areas. Although China has won the battle against poverty and eliminated absolute poverty and regional overall poverty in rural areas under the current standards, most of the areas lifted out of poverty are old, small, border and poor areas, constrained by various factors such as environment, resources, transportation and climate, and the foundation is not solid, and the risk of returning to poverty due to diseases, disasters and other reasons is high. The effective connection with rural revitalization is of great significance.

Third, the unimpeded urban and rural economic cycle and the building of a new development pattern lie in the countryside. The principal contradiction facing Chinese society has evolved into that between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life. The weak links and weaknesses of unbalanced and inadequate development mainly lie in rural areas. Only by accelerating agricultural and rural modernization, continuously improving the living standards of over 500 million rural residents, and unleashing rural consumption and investment potential, can we promote urban and rural economic cycle. We will strengthen the great domestic circulation and realize the double domestic and international circulation to provide an inexhaustible source of driving force for China's sustainable economic development.

Fourth, the weak link in achieving the great goal of fully building a modern socialist country lies in the countryside. Building a modern socialist country in an all-round way is a great undertaking that has never been done before. It is a systematic project in which all fields are committed to realizing modernization, and it must be supported by strong modern agriculture. However, due to the geographical dispersion of agriculture and rural areas, the smallholder nature of agricultural production and the difference of farmers' overall quality, China's agriculture and rural areas are still in the stage of transformation and upgrading from traditional to modern, the development quality is not high, and the competitiveness is not strong. Compared with developed countries, the proportion of rural population in China is generally high, the urban-rural dual structure is still prominent, and rural infrastructure, public services, social governance and other aspects have not kept up with the pace of modernization. Therefore, the countryside is still the short board and restriction of fully building a modern socialist country.

To revitalize rural areas, strengthening rural public infrastructure construction is a key link

The foundation of building a modern socialist country in all respects and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation lies in rural revitalization. In order to realize rural revitalization, the construction of perfect and modern rural public infrastructure covering villages and extending to households is the foundation.

First, we will implement the project to smooth rural roads. "If you want to be rich, build roads first", in the implementation of the poverty alleviation strategy, the village has become an important means of precise poverty alleviation, the project has been implemented for many years, and has made great achievements, basically solving the travel problems of villagers in some poor areas. But generally speaking, the grade of such roads is still relatively low, and many do not meet the standards of rural revitalization. Therefore, rural revitalization, to make most of the rural orderly implementation of large population of natural villages (groups) through hardening roads. At the same time, it should be implemented according to the needs of industrial development, strengthen the construction of rural resource roads, industrial roads, tourism roads and main roads in villages, ensure the smooth flow of cars, tractors and large machinery, and even promote rural road construction projects to more tilted towards villages and households. To raise funds in many ways, on the one hand, through the central car purchase tax subsidy local funds, refined oil tax reform transfer payments, local government bonds and other channels, increase investment in rural high-grade roads; On the other hand, it is necessary to raise social funds through social forces, such as PPP projects, to support rural road development. In addition, in order to ensure the maintenance and management of rural roads and implement the main responsibility of custody, it is necessary to carry out the demonstration of "four good rural roads" and fully implement the road length system. In accordance with the management standards of urban roads, it is necessary to carry out the demonstration of the integration of urban and rural transportation, regularly investigate the safety hazards of rural roads and Bridges, strengthen the supervision of rural road traffic safety, and avoid the tendency of rural roads to only build empty pipes.

Second, we will implement the rural water supply guarantee project. Water is not only the lifeblood of agriculture, but also the guarantee of villagers' health and improve their quality of life. Therefore, strengthening the construction of rural water conservancy infrastructure is an important part of rural revitalization. On the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen the construction of small and medium-sized reservoirs and other stable water source projects and water source protection, so as to ensure the harvest of drought and flood and prevent the impact of flood and drought disasters on agriculture. On the other hand, the construction of large-scale water supply projects and the standardization of small-scale projects will be implemented, and where conditions permit, the integration of urban and rural water supply will be promoted in an orderly manner. By 2025, the penetration rate of tap water in rural areas will reach 88%, ensuring that villagers can drink clean drinking water. At the same time, we must improve the formation mechanism of rural water prices and water charges and the long-term operation mechanism of projects to ensure that farmers have access to, use good water and afford water.

Third, implement the construction of rural ecological environment optimization facilities. First, we need to build clean and resource treatment facilities for rural garbage. Change the way rural garbage disposal, invest funds to implement centralized garbage collection and treatment, build harmless and resource-based garbage disposal facilities, and make the countryside cleaner. Second, we must continue to promote the implementation of the toilet revolution, invest in various ways, popularize flushing toilets in rural areas, and increase the resource and clean treatment of feces and urine.  On the surface, it is only the investment of clean toilets, in fact, it is a revolution in the villagers' ideas, driving the change of the villagers' traditional way of life, and achieving twice the result with half the effort. Third, we must implement greening and beautification projects. On the one hand, encourage the villagers to plant flowers, grass and trees in front of the house and behind the house, greening and beautifying the environment and cultivating the sentiment of the villagers; On the other hand, also increase the civilized education of the villagers, through the village rules and conventions, restrict the villagers not to spit, litter, and change some bad habits of the villagers.

Fourth, we will implement the rural clean energy construction project. Rural revitalization to make rural areas bright, therefore, we must increase the construction of rural power grids, comprehensively consolidate and improve the level of rural electricity security, to ensure that rural production and domestic electricity without power outages, continuous electricity; Vigorously promote gas to the countryside, support the construction of safe and reliable rural gas storage tank stations and micro-pipe network gas supply systems, and ensure that villagers use clean gas; Vigorously develop rural biomass energy and implement straw resource utilization.

Fifth, we will strengthen the construction of digital and intelligent facilities such as rural public services and social governance. We will promote the development of information and communication infrastructure and implement the project of building and developing digital villages. We will carry out the project to upgrade comprehensive service facilities at the village level, make it easier for the people to get things done, and let the majority of farmers run at most once or in one place, with little or no walking. Strengthen the construction of rural social governance infrastructure, adjust and resolve all kinds of contradictions and disputes in the bud, avoid vicious cases, and enhance the sense of security of the people; Build productive public service facilities in rural areas, such as science stations, seed service stations, pesticide and fertilizer service stations, etc., to help farmers solve problems in production in a timely manner; We will strengthen the construction of village-level passenger transport stations, cultural and sports facilities, public lighting and other service facilities, and build libraries, cultural centers, gymnasiums, and exhibition centers in densely populated villages to provide villagers with a rich and colorful cultural life.

Comprehensively promoting rural revitalization is a historic shift in the focus of the Party and the government's "three rural areas" work. The release of the Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and The State Council on Comprehensively Promoting Rural Revitalization and Accelerating the Modernization of Agriculture and Rural Areas has guided the direction of rural revitalization, making agriculture more ambitious, rural areas more interesting, and farmers more hopeful.