CRNTT:

This year is critical for pushing forward rural revitalization in an all-round way. According to the No. 1 central document, what new arrangements have been made in terms of working mechanisms and approaches to ensure that all tasks will be carried out in an active and steady manner? Thank you.

Tang Renjian:

We have completed all poverty eradication targets and tasks. We are now turning to the new goal of advancing rural revitalization in an all-round way. General Secretary Xi Jinping said that it's a historic shift of focus in the work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. We have an effective experience in our poverty alleviation efforts, that is, a sound and improved working mechanism. Therefore, we will also learn from this good experience when pushing forward rural revitalization in an all-round way.

In the new era, as I mentioned at the beginning of this press conference, the focus of the work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers is to advance rural revitalization in an all-round way, which is also the focus of this year's No. 1 central document. In the new era, rural revitalization and the work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers contain similar subjects and extend over a similar range. Therefore, they should not be separated in our practical work. At present, it is crucial to be steadfast in our work, and to use strong actions.

First, we will ensure that all duties and responsibilities are fulfilled. It is a systematic project to advance rural revitalization in an all-round way, featuring integrated arrangements. It is not a specific task for a certain department or a certain sector. It needs the combined efforts of the Party and all of society, and of all departments and localities. In the next step, we will speed up formulating measures for the implementation of the rural revitalization accountability system, clarify responsibilities of the departments of the CPC Central Committee and the central government in advancing rural revitalization, and implement the specific requirements for Party secretaries at the five administrative levels of province, city, county, township, and village, to take charge of rural revitalization, so as to pool all efforts to create great synergy. This year, we will also carry out the performance evaluation on the work to promote rural revitalization strategy for provincial Party and government leadership groups and officials. Meanwhile, we will also improve the evaluation system for officials at the levels of city and county and ensure that all the duties and responsibilities are fulfilled.

Second, we will improve our mechanisms. We will use the effective experience and practice formed in poverty alleviation for promoting rural revitalization in accordance with new needs. To be specific, our work will go hand in hand with the implementation of regulations for the country's rural work issued by the CPC Central Committee and the law on the promotion of rural revitalization promulgated last year. We will make efforts to improve an all-round promotion mechanism for rural revitalization in terms of responsibility fulfilment, organization and promotion, social mobilization, factor guarantee, assessment and evaluation, work reports, and supervision and inspection, widely mobilizing the people and bringing together the resources needed.

Third, we will improve our work style. Different to poverty alleviation, rural revitalization is a prolonged campaign rather than a tough battle, and is also a career that covers all fields and all people on all fronts. We should give up the idea of accomplishing our tasks in one battle, not set unrealistic targets, avoid eagerness for quick results by going beyond the development stage, or even aiming high and going all out at random. All these won't work. We should resolutely oppose the practice of favoring form over substance in this regard. We should work in accordance with the actual situation of different places, respect the underlying trends of rural areas, and steadily promote our work with a more mature and more well-established system. We will carry out large-scale training to study General Secretary Xi Jinping's major expositions on the work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. At present, there are elections for officials at different levels, including people working at the grassroots level. Some new officials have taken office. After taking up their posts, they should learn deeply and thoroughly understand major expositions by General Secretary Xi Jinping on the work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, and then make practical efforts. Therefore, we will study further by carrying out large-scale training. Only in this way can we keep to the right direction of policies, effectively improve our work style, enhance the policy level of the work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers and improve our working ability.

Fourth, we will strengthen the building of organizations. This year's No. 1 central document emphasizes that rural work leading groups under Party committees at all levels should undertake both the duty to consolidate and extend gains in poverty alleviation, and promote all-round rural revitalization. Now at the central level, the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the National Rural Revitalization Administration are jointly promoting the all-round rural revitalization, under the leadership of the Central Rural Work Leading Group. What roles are each of these respective authorities playing? First, the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group is taking the lead in carrying out the strategy. Second, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs is responsible for coordinating different departments, as enshrined in the Law on the Promotion of Rural Revitalization. Third, the National Rural Revitalization Administration is in charge of putting measures in place. While their roles may be different, there is no way to separate them from each other. We should join together to promote rural revitalization in a well-organized and systematic manner, from different perspectives and at different levels.