The "Plan for Accelerating the Construction of an Agricultural Strong Country (2024-2035)" recently issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council proposes to orderly promote the market-oriented reform of rural collective operating construction land and improve the mechanism for distributing land appreciation benefits. The plan is clear, and by 2027, significant progress will be made in building a strong agricultural country. Substantial progress has been made in the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, and the modernization of agriculture and rural areas has reached a new level. By 2035, significant achievements will be made in building a strong agricultural country. Decisive progress has been made in the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, modernization of agriculture has been basically achieved, and rural areas have basic modern living conditions. By the middle of this century, a strong agricultural country will be fully established. The person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs stated that the plan proposes seven key tasks to accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural country by promoting innovation in agricultural science and technology equipment in all fields. These tasks cover all aspects of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers' work, forming an organic whole. Among them, the first five tasks focus on agricultural modernization, reflecting the requirements of building a strong agricultural country with "five strengths"; The latter two tasks focus on rural modernization, reflecting the requirement of promoting agricultural modernization and rural modernization as a whole in building a strong agricultural country. Specifically, it includes: consolidating the foundation of food security in an all-round way to make the Chinese people's jobs more secure and stable; Promote innovation in agricultural technology and equipment across all fields, accelerate the realization of high-level agricultural technological self-reliance and self-improvement; Improve the modern agricultural management system throughout the entire process, promote the organic connection between small-scale farmers and modern agricultural development; Promote the upgrading of the agricultural industry system throughout the entire chain and enhance the comprehensive benefits of agriculture; Further deepen agricultural cooperation with foreign countries and cultivate new international competitive advantages in agriculture; Promote the construction of livable, business friendly, and beautiful rural areas with high quality, and improve the modern living standards in rural areas; Promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas and narrow the urban-rural gap. Clear planning, promoting innovation in agricultural technology and equipment across all fields, and accelerating the achievement of high-level agricultural technological self-reliance and self-improvement. Guided by the key core technologies in agriculture and the urgent needs of the industry, we will accelerate agricultural technological innovation with a focus on seed industry, promote major breakthroughs in agricultural technology, and advance the construction of a strong agricultural country through the development of new agricultural productivity. Strengthen the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements, and promote deep cooperation between major agricultural production areas and areas with active scientific and technological innovation. Promote comprehensive breakthroughs in independent innovation in the seed industry. Deepen the implementation of the Seed Industry Revitalization Action, accelerate the realization of seed industry technological self-reliance and independent and controllable seed sources. Promote the comprehensive upgrade of agricultural machinery and equipment throughout the process. Strengthen the research and application of large-scale high-end intelligent agricultural machinery, small machinery suitable for hilly and mountainous areas, and other agricultural machinery equipment and key components, accelerate the comprehensive support of domestic agricultural machinery and equipment for high-quality and efficient agricultural development. Promote the scrapping and updating of old agricultural machinery, and optimize the structure of agricultural machinery equipment. Build an important agricultural machinery and equipment industry cluster, establish an industrial pattern of stable upstream and downstream support, and collaborative participation of related enterprises in engineering electronics and other fields. Clear planning to promote the comprehensive integration of digital technology and modern agriculture. Establish and improve the integrated agricultural observation network of sky and earth, perfect the agricultural and rural statistical survey and monitoring system, build a comprehensive and multi-level connected agricultural and rural big data platform, and improve the mechanism for the development and utilization of agricultural data. Develop smart agricultural technologies with independent intellectual property rights, improve the standard system for smart agriculture, and unleash digital productivity in agriculture and rural areas. The plan to broaden channels for farmers to increase income and become prosperous proposes to promote the upgrading of the agricultural industry system throughout the entire chain and enhance the comprehensive efficiency of agriculture. Relying on the characteristic resources of agriculture and rural areas, developing multiple functions of agriculture, tapping into the diverse value of rural areas, accelerating the construction of a modern rural industrial system that integrates grain, economy, and feed, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery, production, sales, and integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism, and building agriculture into a modern large-scale industry. Promote the optimization and upgrading of agricultural product processing and circulation. Establish a sound county and rural logistics distribution system, encourage large-scale e-commerce platforms, logistics, commerce and other entities to sink into rural areas, and develop rural e-commerce service outlets. Promote the integrated development of rural industries. Promote the upgrading of all aspects of production, processing, and circulation, and expand the space for industrial value-added and efficiency improvement. Deepen the construction of advantageous characteristic industrial clusters, modern agricultural industrial parks, and strong agricultural towns, and implement rural industrial integration development projects. Fuyou cultivates and strengthens leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, expands the leading enterprises in the industry chain and regional leaders, optimizes small and medium-sized enterprises, and forms an enterprise development pattern of production synergy, technological complementarity, and factor sharing. Vigorously cultivate new industries and formats in rural areas, promote the deep integration of agriculture with tourism, education, health and wellness industries, and enrich leisure agriculture and rural tourism products. In promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas and narrowing the urban-rural gap, the plan emphasizes expanding channels for farmers to increase their income and become prosperous. Strengthen the industries that enrich the people in the county, promote the accelerated integration of county industries into the industrial and supply chain innovation chains of neighboring large and medium-sized cities, and guide the transfer of labor-intensive industries to the county. Support agricultural universities and enterprises to provide high-quality vocational skills training, encourage special training for urgently needed and scarce occupations for migrant workers, improve cross regional employment service mechanisms, establish regional labor cooperation platforms, and promote farmers' employment, job expansion, and income growth. Strengthen the standardized management of rural homesteads and allow farmers to revitalize and utilize their legally owned housing through renting, equity participation, cooperation, and other means. Orderly promote the reform of rural collective operation construction land entering the market, and improve the mechanism for distributing land appreciation benefits. Establish a sound financing mechanism for basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents, promote the coverage of the basic pension insurance system for all rural residents and timely increase the basic pension standards, and improve the mechanism for formulating and dynamically adjusting the subsistence allowance standards. The plan proposes to promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas. Coordinate new industrialization, new urbanization, and comprehensive rural revitalization, and comprehensively improve the integration level of urban and rural planning, construction, and governance. Improve the institutional mechanism and policy system for integrated urban-rural development, promote equal exchange and two-way flow of urban and rural factors, and promote balanced allocation of public resources. Establish a linkage mechanism between government investment, finance, and social investment, and steadily increase the proportion of land transfer revenue used for agriculture and rural areas. Establish a unified construction land market for urban and rural areas, and allocate no less than 10% of the construction land quota for agriculture and rural areas in the newly formulated county and township level land spatial planning. We will improve the supporting policy system for the citizenization of agricultural transfer population, promote the system of providing basic public services through permanent residence registration, and promote qualified agricultural transfer population to enjoy the same rights as the registered residence registered population in the place of migration in terms of social insurance, housing security, and compulsory education for their accompanying children. Taking counties as an important entry point for urban-rural integration development, promoting the connection of urban and rural transportation roads, interconnection of power supply networks, and integration of passenger and logistics, and promoting the unification of basic public service standards and institutional integration between urban and rural areas. Strengthen the construction of county-level commercial system and tap into the potential of rural consumption. (New Society)