No. 1 central document of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on adhering to the priority of agriculture and rural development, and the work of "three rural issues", which is issued in 2019, is the first central document No. 1.1 since twenty-first Century. It is the No. 1 central document for guiding the work of Agriculture, rural areas and farmers. Yesterday, the Information Office of the State Council held a press conference to invite Han Changfu, deputy leader and office director of the central rural work leading group, Minister of agriculture and rural areas, and Wu Hongyao, member of the Party group of the Ministry of agriculture and director of the Secretary of the Central Rural Work Leading Group office, to interpret this.
Han Changfu said that giving priority to the development of agriculture and rural areas was put forward by the Party Central Committee from the overall development of the cause of the party and the state, as well as from solving the contradictions of unbalanced urban and rural development and insufficient rural development. It is a major policy that must be adhered to for a long time.
In terms of financial support, Document No. 1 proposed that priority should be given to the guarantee of capital investment. We should adhere to taking agriculture and rural areas as the priority areas of financial security and financial services, increase the tilt of public finance, and increase the proportion of land transfer income used for agriculture and rural investment. In the past, it was "taken from agriculture, mainly used for cities", In the future, we should ensure that the intensity of investment in agriculture and rural areas continues to increase and the total amount continues to increase.
Turning to the rural reform of general concern, Han Changfu said that dealing with the relationship between farmers and land is still the main line of deepening rural reform. In general, we should take the land system reform as the traction to promote rural reform. First, keep the land contract relationship stable and unchanged for a long time. Second, we will continue to deepen the three reforms of the rural land system, namely, land expropriation, the entry of collectively operated construction land into the market and the reform of the homestead system.
Among them, the pilot of rural land expropriation and collective operating construction land into the market is relatively mature. In this regard, on the basis of revising relevant laws, we will improve the supporting system, comprehensively promote it, and accelerate the establishment of a unified construction land market in urban and rural areas. The pilot reform of the homestead system is not mature enough. We should promote it carefully, explore effective ways to moderately liberalize the use right of homestead and farmers' houses, make full use of idle homestead and idle rural houses, and increase farmers' property income.
Strive to basically complete the confirmation, registration and certification of homestead use right by 2020. The third is to innovate the mode of operation. We will improve the laws, regulations and policy system for the "separation of three rights" of contracted land, highlight the cultivation of two new types of agricultural business entities: family farms and farmers' cooperatives, implement the policies to support the development of small farmers, cultivate all kinds of socialized service organizations, and improve the operation efficiency and level of agriculture.
At the same time, he stressed that these reforms should hold the bottom line, that is, we should adhere to the collective ownership of rural land, do not engage in privatization, adhere to the agricultural use of agricultural land, prevent non-agricultural use, adhere to the protection of farmers' land rights and interests, and should not take withdrawal from contracted land and homestead as a condition for settlement in cities.
Han Changfu said that the reform of rural property right system is an important aspect of rural reform, and the reform arrangement in this regard is to do two things well. First of all, we should do a good job in asset and capital verification, that is, how many assets the collective has, including operating assets and non operating assets. This work should be basically completed by the end of this year and we should find out the family background. Second, we should promote the pilot reform of the joint-stock cooperative system and establish rural joint-stock cooperative organizations, that is, we should solve the problems of who owns these assets and how to manage and operate them, and establish a set of mechanisms with clear property rights, clear ownership and effective operation.
Han Changfu said that good progress has been made in the structural reform of the agricultural supply side in the past two years, and the mismatch between the supply structure and demand structure of agricultural products has been significantly improved, but the main contradiction in agriculture is still on the supply side, and this reform is still on the road. We should unswervingly take the supply side structural reform as the main line, promote the greening, quality, characteristics and branding of agriculture around consolidation, enhancement, improvement and unimpeded, and do the article of agricultural supply side structural reform in depth and detail. The goal is to continuously promote the high-quality development of agriculture.