Change of land quota system pumps capital into poverty eradication effortThe central government will guarantee funds needed for an ambitious rural vitalization campaign through direct investment and preferential policies to help raise capital, senior officials said.While raising public finance inputs, more of the revenue the government gets from land transactions will be spent in rural China, Han Jun, chief of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said on Monday in Beijing.His comments came a day after the central government released a package of policies referred to as the No 1 Central Document of the year, which charts a road map for rural vitalization.The document sets objectives for lifting all rural residents out of poverty by 2020 and bringing into reality a basic modernization of agriculture and rural areas by 2035 and a comprehensive rural vitalization by 2050.For a long time, a very low proportion of land transaction revenue was used for rural development, Han said at a news conference organized by the State Council Information Office. We will innovate the policy procedure and cut more from the 'cake' of land transactions and give them to rural areas to facilitate the poverty-relief campaign and rural vitalization.The government will also promote the development of high-standard farmland and trans-provincial purchasing and selling of quotas for construction-use land. The gains from the two projects will all be used to help eradicate poverty and realize rural vitalization, Han said.China now utilizes a quota system for land use to curb the increase of construction land and the decrease of farmland. Local governments can get quotas for certain plot sizes for construction use if the same size of construction land in its jurisdiction is reclaimed.Previously, the quota could only be bought and sold among different counties within each provincial region. Jinzhai county in Anhui province, for example, once reclaimed about 670 hectares in construction-use land after relocating some of its poverty-stricken population to more livable areas. The county sold its quota to Anhui's capital Hefei at a price of 5 billion yuan ($795 million), Han said.The quota will be allowed to be sold beyond the jurisdiction of each provincial region. This will no doubt result in more reasonable quotas and help raise sizable amounts of capital to help the poverty-relief campaign, he said, adding detailed regulations are still needed before the policy is officially launched. But local governments will not be allowed to force farmers to move into apartment buildings in order to achieve quotas.Smaller plots of farmland will be combined into larger ones to achieve higher-standard farmland development. The overall size of farmland will be increased as some roads and other unused land among these tiny plots will be reclaimed, which will also result in some quotas being fulfilled, he said.Wu Hongyao, deputy chief of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said the government will also draft guidelines to encourage enterprises to participate in rural vitalization with preferential policies, including those in financing, loan applications and tax deductions.He said the government will make efforts to cultivate and attract the talent needed for rural vitalization. As part of the efforts, agricultural experts from universities and scientific research institutes will be encouraged to take temporary or part-time positions in rural areas and companies, he said.Seen as an indicator of policy priorities, the No 1 Central Document is the name traditionally given to the first policy statement that the central authorities release each year.This has been the 15th consecutive year that the No 1 Central Document has been devoted to agriculture, farmers and rural areas. custom wristbandsfuck cancer braceletwristbands for events
Premier Li Keqiang leads a meeting that solicited suggestions for the draft of this year's Government Work Report in Beijing on Wednesday. WU ZHIYI/CHINA DAILY Li: Grassroots wisdom should be unleashed to solve problems Premier Li Keqiang highlighted the importance of high-quality talent recruitment and basic research, such as mathematics, to better proceed with innovation-driven development. That was part of Li's responses on Wednesday to suggestions made by professionals in higher education, science and technology, cultural protection, healthcare and sports to the draft of the Government Work Report. The report will be delivered by the premier to the National People's Congress next month. Nine people, including university presidents, a famous volleyball coach, an actor and a deliveryman, were invited to speak at a State Council meeting and offer their suggestions. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the country has made enormous achievements in all courses under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee, Li said. Grassroots wisdom should be unleashed to solve problems closely related to people's lives, he said. Dou Xiankang, president of Wuhan University in Hubei province, suggested the role of high-level talent be fully developed in building an innovation-driven country. He also called for more support to universities in the central and western parts of China. Shi Yigong, president of Westlake Institute of Advanced Study in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, said excellent privately-run universities should be encouraged and supported. Li said high-quality development, proposed at the 19th CPC National Congress, demands a large amount of high-quality talent. Governments at all levels should promote balanced distribution of educational resources, create a fair environment and give universities more autonomy in routine operations and talent cultivation. More technological inputs should be made into basic research, such as mathematics, said Chen Zhiming, director of the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific & Engineering Computing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Li said basic research, as the foundation of an innovation-driven strategy, should be reinforced because no original innovation and key technological breakthroughs can be made if basic research is not strong. Incentive policies should be improved to make researchers fully dedicated to their research and encourage professionals to make more original and breakthrough achievements. At the meeting, Li also discussed issues of cultural protection, the film industry, mass-market sports, express delivery and family farms. The premier said more technologies should be used to better protect ancient cultural heritage, after Fan Shijin, honored president of Dunhuang Academy in Gansu province, called for a balance between cultural protection and tourism. Lang Ping, head coach of China's women's volleyball team, said more fitness facilities should be built and the sports industry should be boosted to meet public demand for better health.
