■  Build new agricultural value chains; use cross-disciplinary value-added and innovative thinking to undertake structural adjustments of manpower, land, and water resources in the rural economy; develop rural industries that are “large but , small but beautiful”; develop agriculture of health and sustainability that attracts young people, has strong competitiveness, and provides stable incomes.

■  Continue to broaden and deepen our global strategy for agriculture; promote the policy of “Free Economic Pilot Zones—Agricultural Value-Added”; construct an export-oriented value-added model for agriculture; develop rural industries with high added value and strong market competitiveness; move more quickly to adjust the industrial structure; build market differentiation.

■  Promote “local production, local consumption”; strengthen education and communication about farm products for human consumption; innovate industries with unique characteristics. Adjust the cropping structure and bring fallow farmland back under cultivation; construct food security mechanisms; adjust the system for management of public stocks of food; promote more diversified uses of rice. Attract young people into farming; promote the policy of “Small Landlords, Big Tenant Farmers”; expand the scale of farm operations.

■  Promote an agro-products information cloud; strengthen the existing systems for product traceability, testing, and certification. Develop organic farming; strengthen management of food safety; expand guidance in the creation and operation of agricultural special zones; strengthen disaster-prevention and disaster-response measures; broaden processing of agro-products and create stable production-and-marketing systems.

■  Broaden technological innovation for the rural sector; move more quickly in seeing that the results of agriculture-related R&D are industrialized and internationalized. Ensure protection of intellectual property rights in the agricultural sector; promote development of hi-tech industries, operations, and logistics. Apply the “agricultural cloud” to make services more efficient and well-organized; mold and create innovative agricultural production-and-marketing and farmer services.

■  Pro-actively participate in international fisheries organizations; implement norms for management of fishing vessels. Strengthen measures to increase coastal fisheries resources and preservation and sustainability of coastal ecologies; improve water supply facilities for areas where aquaculture is concentrated; strengthen on-site monitoring, testing, and management of the use of pharmaceuticals for fisheries products.

■  Increase the effectiveness of testing and disease prevention for plants and animals; ensure that agro-chemicals and pharmaceuticals for plants and animals are used safely; promote a comprehensive system of plant conservation; effectively implement bio-safety and other measures to prevent the outbreak or spread of communicable diseases in animals. Promote a livestock and poultry production system that is efficient, high in value, and safe; guarantee the safety and sanitary standards of meat products. Continue to improve animal protection and management of domestic companion animals; ensure animal well-being.

■  Continue to improve and refine the welfare and social insurance systems for the rural population; uphold the rights and interests of genuine farmers actually working the land. Cultivate a new generation of farm operators; upgrade the operating and management knowledge and capabilities of farmers.

■  Assist farmers’ and fishermen’s associations in applying relevant measures to conform to the Labor Standards Act; guarantee the rights and interests of their workers. Strengthen governance of the agricultural financial system; implement special-case policy-oriented loans; promote and expand the common information platform for agricultural finance; assist persons engaged in farming and agro-businesses to find more diversified sources of operating capital; bring vitality to agricultural industries and the rural economy.

■  Construct a high-efficiency irrigation control platform; provide a safe and stable supply of water for agriculture; improve agricultural infrastructure; strengthen disaster-prevention and disaster-response capabilities. Construct a spatial database for farmland resources as well as a rolling adjustment mechanism; using the concept of agricultural value chains, encourage concentration of farmland and larger-scale farm operations; adjust farmland management restrictions where rational and reasonable; preserve the environment of premium quality farmland.

■  Integrate the “Rural Regeneration” program with rural community action and promotion of special local industries; encourage self-directed development and economic construction in rural communities; provide guidance for innovative value-added for regional industries; attract young people to remain in, or return to, rural communities. Systematically organize resources in the farming and fishing sectors; upgrade the quality and brand images of leisure farms; promote internationalization of the rural leisure and tourism industry; create new business and commercial opportunities.

■  Promote afforestation and reforestation; strengthen forest preservation and comprehensive management of national forests. Promote nature conservation; preserve wild animal and plant resources; ensure the sound functioning of ecological systems. Strengthen the economic value of forest land and upgrade the quality of forest recreation areas.

■  Promote comprehensive management of mountain areas; continue conservation and management of watershed areas; strengthen overall management capabilities for river basins. Strengthen surveys, monitoring, and management of slopeland; refine the monitoring network for debris-flow early warning and response; strengthen the integrated information network for disaster prevention, preparedness, and response .