The Central Document No. 1 of 2022 was released! What specific aspects does the main content involve? Attached the latest full text

The long-awaited Central Document No. 1 of 2022 was officially released on February 22. This is also the 19th guiding document on agriculture, rural areas and farmers since the 21st century. So what specific aspects does the main content of the Central Document No. 1 of 2022 cover? The latest full text is as follows:

1. What specific aspects does the main content of the Central Document No. 1 of 2022 involve?

The main contents of the Central Document No. 1 of 2022 specifically involve firmly maintaining the two bottom lines of ensuring national food security and preventing large-scale poverty recurrence; highlighting annual tasks, targeted measures, and effectiveness orientation; giving full play to the leadership role of rural grassroots party organizations; and doing a solid and orderly job in key tasks of rural development, rural construction, and rural governance. The theme of the document is the opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on doing a good job in comprehensively promoting key tasks of rural revitalization in 2022.

(I) Main content of the Central Government’s No. 1 Document in 2022: Grasping grain production and supply of important agricultural products

1. Stabilize the annual grain planting area and yield

We must insist that the Chinese people's rice bowl is firmly in their own hands at all times, and that the rice bowl is filled mainly with Chinese grain. We must fully implement the shared responsibility of the Party and the government for food security, strictly assess the food security responsibility system, and ensure that the grain planting area remains stable and that output remains above 1.3 trillion jin.

2. Vigorously implement the soybean and oilseed production capacity improvement project

We will increase subsidies for crop rotation and rewards for major oil-producing counties, focus support on suitable regions, key varieties, and business service entities, promote strip-based composite planting of corn and soybeans in the Huanghuai, Northwest, and Southwest regions, and carry out grain-bean rotation in the Northeast.

3. Ensure the supply of vegetable basket products

Increase efforts to implement the mayor’s responsibility system for the vegetable basket. Stabilize long-term support policies for pig production, stabilize basic production capacity, and prevent large fluctuations in production. Accelerate the expansion of beef, mutton and dairy production, and promote pilot demonstrations of grassland animal husbandry transformation and upgrading.

4. Reasonably guarantee farmers’ grain production income

In accordance with the goal of making it profitable for farmers to grow grain and encouraging major grain-producing areas to produce grain, we will improve the mechanism for ensuring farmers' income from growing grain.

5. Coordinate and regulate important agricultural products

Improve the monitoring and early warning system for the entire agricultural product industry chain, promote the establishment of a unified agricultural product supply and demand information release system, and strengthen regulation and emergency response by category and variety.

(II) Main content of the Central Government’s No. 1 Document in 2022: Strengthening the basic support for modern agriculture

First, we will implement strong measures to protect arable land, implement the shared responsibility of the Party and the government for protecting arable land, and strictly adhere to the 1.8 billion mu arable land red line.

The second is to fully complete the phased tasks of high-standard farmland construction. Increase investment through multiple channels, build 100 million mu of high-standard farmland by 2022, and build a total of 400 million mu of efficient water-saving irrigation area.

Third, we will vigorously promote the research and development of key core technologies in agriculture, such as seed resources. Fully implement the action plan for seed industry revitalization. Accelerate the survey and collection of agricultural germplasm resources, and strengthen accurate identification and evaluation.

Fourth, improve the research, development and application level of agricultural machinery and equipment. Comprehensively sort out shortcomings and weaknesses, and strengthen collaborative research on engineering of agricultural machinery and equipment.

Fifth, accelerate the development of facility agriculture. Develop plastic greenhouses, solar greenhouses, multi-span greenhouses and other facilities according to local conditions. Concentrate on building factory-based seedling production facilities.

Sixth, effectively prevent and respond to major agricultural disasters. Increase efforts in building agricultural disaster prevention, mitigation and relief capabilities and increase investment.

(III) Main content of the Central Government’s No. 1 document in 2022: Resolutely defend the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty

First, improve the monitoring and assistance mechanism; second, increase the income of people who have been lifted out of poverty continuously; third, increase support for key counties for rural revitalization and resettlement areas for relocated people; fourth, promote the implementation of assistance policies in poverty-stricken areas.

(IV) Main content of the Central Government’s No. 1 Document in 2022: Focus on industries to promote rural development

It mainly includes continuously promoting the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas, vigorously developing county-level industries that enrich the people, strengthening the construction of county-level commercial systems, promoting local employment and entrepreneurship of farmers, and promoting green development of agriculture and rural areas.

(V) Main content of the Central Government’s No. 1 Document in 2022: Solid and steady progress in rural development

1. Improve the implementation mechanism of rural construction

We will implement the requirements of rural revitalization for farmers and rural construction for farmers, adhere to the bottom-up approach, villager autonomy and farmer participation, launch the implementation plan for rural construction, and advance it in a forceful and orderly manner according to local conditions.

2. Continue to implement the five-year action plan to improve the rural living environment

Promote rural toilet reform based on the actual needs of farmers. Water-flushed toilets can be promoted in places where conditions are met, and sanitary dry toilets can be built in places where conditions are not met.

3. Strengthen county-level coordination of basic public services

Accelerate the urbanization construction with county towns as an important carrier. Strengthen the construction of universal, basic and bottom-up people's livelihood, and promote the transformation of basic public service supply from focusing on institutional administrative area coverage to focusing on permanent population service coverage.

(VI) Main content of the Central Document No. 1 of 2022: Improving rural governance with high effectiveness

Strengthen the construction of rural grassroots organizations, innovate effective platforms and carriers for the construction of rural spiritual civilization, and effectively maintain rural social peace and stability.

(VII) Main content of the Central Government’s No. 1 Document in 2022: Strengthening policy support and institutional mechanism innovation

1. Expand investment in rural revitalization

We will continue to prioritize agriculture and rural areas in the general public budget, further tilt central budget investment toward agriculture and rural areas, and strengthen local government investment responsibilities.

2. Strengthen financial services for rural revitalization

For local legal person financial institutions whose legal persons are located in counties, whose businesses are located in counties, and whose funds are mainly used for rural revitalization, we will increase support for agriculture and small businesses through re-lending and re-discounting, and implement more preferential deposit reserve policies.

3. Strengthen the construction of talent team for rural revitalization

Discover, train and employ strategic scientists in the agricultural field. Launch the Shennong Talent Plan to accelerate the training of leading scientific and technological talents, young scientific and technological talents and high-level innovation teams.

4. Implement key tasks of rural reform

A county-wide pilot program will be launched to extend the second round of land contracts for another 30 years after they expire.

(VIII) Main content of the Central Document No. 1 of 2022 VIII: Upholding and strengthening the Party’s overall leadership over agriculture, rural areas and farmers

The first is to strengthen the responsibility of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization; the second is to strengthen the party’s rural work institutions; and the third is to take the lead in promoting the comprehensive development of rural revitalization.

The above is an introduction to the main contents of the Central Document No. 1 in 2022, including eight aspects: ensuring the supply of grain production and important agricultural products, strengthening the basic support of modern agriculture, resolutely guarding the bottom line of not returning to poverty on a large scale, focusing on industries to promote rural development, steadily and steadily advancing rural construction, highlighting the effectiveness of improving rural governance, and adhering to and strengthening the party's overall leadership over agriculture, rural areas and farmers.