2017 work focus: calling for "urban return" active rural economy

2017 work focus: calling for "urban return" active rural economy

At present, China's rural areas are actually in the initial stage of a new round of structural changes. On the one hand, the gradual refinement of the “three powers separation” approach to rural land allows land resources to be concentrated in a more efficient new business entity; on the other hand, the reform of the rural property rights system will give farmers more full property rights, both as capital. Access to modern agriculture provides space and a protective levee has also been established.

At present, what is lacking in rural modernization is a suitable candidate who can combine the production factors such as land and capital.

The flow of people is an important indicator of social vitality. China's agriculture faces rising contradictions and problems such as rising costs, price inversions, and slowing income growth. One fundamental constraint is the long-term net outflow of rural-aged labor, and the shift in agricultural management patterns lags behind. When the rural labor transfer and employment is not much, the operation mode of “household land and household farming” can stimulate the vitality of the countryside. However, with the further deepening of urbanization, the agricultural sideline, the farmers’ concurrentization, and the aging of farmers The problem has gradually surfaced, and it has become an urgent issue to cultivate new agricultural business entities and service subjects that understand the rural areas and are strong and retaining them.

The key to solving this problem is to improve the efficiency of agricultural resource allocation and increase the attractiveness of rural and agricultural areas. Doing this big article cannot be achieved by simply reducing the agricultural population. Although the current proportion of industrial employment in China is still high, it is still in the development stage of “to be rich and farmers must reduce farmers”, but new agricultural operators cannot fully count on those who have been engaged in agriculture in rural areas. Some of them are trained to be qualified for this role, but there are indeed major limitations in terms of pioneering awareness, market experience and management skills, and financial strength. As they grow older, their growth potential and possibilities Sex is still falling.

To counter the adverse effects of the aging farmers' aging on agricultural modernization, it is necessary to broaden their horizons and make good use of external forces, especially the “city return” that has returned to the countryside after the city has been trained in modern industry. They are the right seeds for rural modernization. In fact, with the accumulation of various factors of production and the release of the system, in recent years, migrant workers, college students, retired soldiers and other personnel who have gone out of the countryside have returned to their hometowns, and even the town’s scientific and technical personnel, Zhonggao, etc. College graduates and others have also begun to go to the countryside to innovate and start businesses. According to the statistics of relevant departments, in recent years, the number of migrant workers returning to their hometowns has reached 4.5 million, and there are about 1.3 million science and technology personnel living in cities and towns, graduates of middle and high schools, and other entrepreneurial innovations. Economist Li Yining has high hopes for "city return" and even regards it as China's new demographic dividend. It should be said that an important breakthrough in the reform of agricultural supply side is pointed out. These “city returns” that have a sense of identity in the countryside may moderately balance the various negative externalities in the process of rural change.

Of course, calling for "city return" to improve the structure of rural labor and business entities, and to achieve intergenerational replacement, is not to engage in "reverse urbanization." It is still a general trend to promote the new urbanization with people as the core, to promote the transfer of agricultural labor to the outside, and to resettle the rural population to urban areas. In this process, some people with willingness and conditions have become “city return” to transform agriculture and rural areas, and to activate the rural economy. In essence, it is the interaction between urbanization and agricultural modernization. When the city's capital and talents promote agricultural modernization in a more rational way, and liberate more agricultural population from the land more smoothly, it can lay a more solid foundation for China's new development.