Focus on key areas, accelerate the construction of agricultural and rural infrastructure projects
Promote the construction of high-standard farmland and improve grain production capacity; Building a modern agricultural industrial park and extending the agricultural industrial chain … … Recently, focusing on the shortcomings of agriculture and rural areas, all localities have made every effort to promote the construction of agricultural and rural infrastructure projects.
A new batch of projects will also be accelerated. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and other departments have recently issued a clear document. From now until the end of the year, we will focus on the construction of projects such as short-board irrigation and water conservancy facilities, modern facility agriculture and cold chain logistics facilities for agricultural products storage and preservation, and start a number of new projects to ensure the formation of physical workload as soon as possible. Effective as soon as possible, laying a solid foundation for stabilizing the economic market.
Agricultural and rural infrastructure construction was accelerated.
In the autumn harvest season, on the mountain of Yongjin Village, Jiaxinzi Town, Baoqing County, Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, high-standard farmland complements the surrounding mountains. Lin Haifei, a local villager, told reporters that the soybean planted by the cooperative this year has increased production compared with last year and will usher in a bumper harvest. "This year’s bumper harvest is not only because of the good years, but also because of high-standard farmland." Lin Haifei said.
In recent years, the construction of high-standard farmland with centralized contiguous areas, supporting facilities and high and stable yield has become an important measure to improve grain production capacity and ensure food security. As the largest grain-producing province in China, Heilongjiang Province plans to build 11 million mu of high-standard farmland in 2022.
Recently, the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a meeting to promote the construction of high-standard farmland in the whole province, which pointed out that we should pay close attention to the golden construction period of the current high-standard farmland construction, ensure the completion of the annual tasks as scheduled, and promote new projects to form more physical workload and effective investment. The unfinished carry-over tasks should be completed by the end of October.
In Ningxia, the capital construction of farmland water conservancy in autumn and winter has completed 50% of the total annual task, with an accumulated investment of nearly 4 billion yuan. Among them, 798,500 mu of high-standard farmland has been completed, accounting for 84% of the total task.
Building a modern agricultural industrial park is a key measure to develop modern agriculture and extend the agricultural industrial chain. On October 14th, Yufeng cold chain logistics warehousing project, one of the national modern agricultural industrial park projects in Qingcheng District, Guangdong Province, was started, with a total investment of 600 million yuan. It will build a smart agricultural industrial park integrating cold chain warehousing, logistics system, trading market and poultry slaughtering and processing. In Sichuan, the construction of 26 projects in chuanshan district Modern Agricultural Industrial Park is also struggling to sprint the annual goals and tasks.
"At present, the construction of related projects in the agricultural and rural areas is being implemented, and the effective investment and policy effects in agriculture and rural areas are continuously expanded to effectively promote the development of agriculture and rural areas." Guo Pei, a professor at the School of Economics and Management of China Agricultural University, said.
A new batch of key projects will be launched.
The reporter learned that focusing on the shortcomings of agricultural and rural infrastructure, a new batch of projects is accelerating.
The the State Council executive meeting held on September 26th proposed to speed up the construction of agricultural and rural infrastructure projects under construction, start a number of new projects, and complete the investment of more than 300 billion yuan this year.
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Water Resources and other eight departments jointly issued a document to make specific arrangements for expanding the current investment in agricultural and rural infrastructure construction, demanding that from now until the end of the year, we should focus on the construction, renovation and upgrading of irrigation areas and other water conservancy facilities, the construction of short-board farmland water conservancy facilities, modern facility agriculture and cold chain logistics facilities for agricultural products storage and preservation, speed up the implementation progress of projects under construction, and start a number of new projects to ensure that physical workload is formed as soon as possible and results are achieved as soon as possible.
Previously, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs required all localities to focus on planning and storing a number of new major projects in key areas such as high-standard farmland, modern facility agriculture and cold chain logistics of agricultural products, and speed up preliminary work such as project approval, approval and filing.
"As a basic industry, agriculture directly or indirectly affects the entire national economy, and the economy is stable when agriculture is stable." Guo Pei said that the promotion of key projects in agriculture and rural areas will increase investment in agriculture and rural areas and play an important role in stabilizing the economy. At the same time, in order to comprehensively promote rural revitalization and accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, it is necessary to further focus on key tasks such as stabilizing grain production and optimizing rural characteristic industries to promote the transformation and upgrading of agricultural and rural economies.
He said that we should focus on shortcomings and weaknesses, encourage major grain producing areas and advantageous areas of characteristic agricultural products to develop agricultural product processing industries, and improve the level of mechanization and standardization of the industry; Encourage qualified places to build cold chain distribution centers of origin, build logistics nodes of agricultural products, and develop new circulation formats of production and marketing docking.
Guide multi-channel capital to invest in agriculture and rural areas
With the acceleration of project construction, many parties have also increased their support to further guide social capital and financial capital to invest in key areas of agriculture and rural areas.
"Agricultural infrastructure construction usually faces some difficulties and challenges in investment and financing." Fan Ruoying, a researcher at China Bank Research Institute, said that the lack of marketization in the operation of agricultural and rural infrastructure projects has led to insufficient attraction to commercial funds and social funds; Agricultural and rural infrastructure projects still have the characteristics of long cycle and high cost, and the matching degree with social funds is not high; In addition, China’s current overall agricultural industrial efficiency is not high, and the expected income of the project is low, which also affects the project investment and financing to some extent.
In this regard, a series of arrangements have been launched to promote the linkage between government investment and financial credit investment and loan, and to encourage social capital to cooperate in construction and operation.
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on October 18 that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the National Rural Revitalization Bureau and the China Development Bank recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement on development financial services for rural revitalization, and put forward specific plans to support the construction of high-standard farmland and the development of rural industries, and jointly explore the medium and long-term credit model for agricultural and rural infrastructure.
The "Work Plan on Expanding Current Investment in Agricultural and Rural Infrastructure Construction" released recently also proposes to promote the linkage between government investment and financial credit investment and loan in fund raising; In terms of operation mode, social capital is encouraged to cooperate in the construction and operation of agricultural and rural infrastructure projects with high marketization, such as facility agriculture and cold chain logistics.
Local governments have also carried out a series of innovative practices. For example, in recent years, Guangdong Province has supported modern agricultural demonstration zones to guide more financial capital to invest in the agricultural sector in the form of "government and bank insurance" and "investment and loan supplement". By the end of April 2022, the actual total investment of 191 provincial-level agricultural industrial parks in eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong and northern Guangdong was 39.9 billion yuan, and the proportion of provincial-level financial funds inciting local and social funds reached 1∶5.06.
Fan Ruoying said that innovative practices such as government investment and financial credit investment and loan linkage can better solve the problem of investment and financing difficulties in agricultural and rural infrastructure construction projects, which is not only conducive to better mobilizing the investment enthusiasm of commercial funds, supplementing project funds, but also conducive to innovative project financial products and services, strengthening the marketization of projects, achieving win-win goals, and promoting agricultural and rural construction projects to be effective as soon as possible.