A few days ago, the Communist Party of China released the No. 1 document of Zhongnanhai for 2021, focusing on the three rural areas and proposing the revitalization of the countryside, while emphasizing a five-year transition period for poverty eradication.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) recently released the No. 1 document of Zhongnanhai for 2021, focusing on the three rural areas, proposing the revitalization of the countryside, and setting up a 5-year transition period for poverty eradication. According to experts, this document reveals two major concerns of the CCP’s top management, namely the political poverty eradication and the Food shortage problem faced by China.
On February 21, the Communist Party authorized Xinhua News Agency to release the No. 1 document of Zhongnanhai. The full document consists of five parts, including: general requirements, achieving consolidation of poverty eradication, effective linkage with rural revitalization, and strengthening the overall leadership of the “three rural areas”.
Although the Communist Party of China announced last year that it had completed its “poverty eradication campaign,” the document emphasizes that a “transition period” should be established, with a “five-year transition period” from the date of poverty eradication for counties that have escaped poverty. The “transition period”. During the transition period still maintain the existing major support policies, etc.
The document also pointed out that the nation to revive, the countryside must be revitalized, the central government believes that the new development stage of the “three rural” work is still extremely important and must not be relaxed. The main goals include: 2021 agricultural supply-side structural reform in depth, grain sown area remains stable, production reached more than 1.3 trillion jin, and so on.
The document mentions the construction of a “national food security industry belt”, expanding the scope of the pilot full cost insurance and income insurance for rice, wheat and corn, and supporting enterprises to integrate into the global agricultural supply chain.
According to expert analysis, this document reveals the two major concerns of the Communist Party, namely poverty eradication and food shortage. Poverty eradication is only a slogan-style political eradication of poverty, but the lower strata of the population are getting poorer and poorer; food shortages are likely to appear this fall.
Hu Ping, editor-in-chief emeritus of Beijing Spring magazine, told Radio Free Asia that this reflects two major problems: one is the tight balance of food, which is not generous; the other is the revitalization of the countryside, which instead shows that there are many fundamental and serious problems in the countryside.
Tang Renjian, minister of agriculture of the Communist Party of China, summarized the Central Government’s No. 1 document in a press conference on the 22nd as “two musts”: consolidating and expanding the results of poverty eradication and food security must not go wrong.
The “poverty eradication” is a major political task set by Xi Jinping in 2015, which requires that all poor areas and people in poverty be lifted out of poverty by 2020, and all poor counties be removed from the list, so as to enter a well-off society.
However, the Chinese Communist Party‘s virus Epidemic continues to this day, causing the Chinese economy to be hit extremely hard. In addition, the Chinese Communist Party concealed the epidemic from the international community, and various domestic calamities continue. Li Keqiang revealed at the two sessions last year that 600 million people in China have a monthly income of only 1,000 yuan, and now with the epidemic, more people may return to poverty.
But at the end of last year, the Communist Party still announced that it was on track to eradicate poverty. But the outside world is not convinced by the local authorities’ announcement of zero poverty counties, saying sarcastically, “You can get rid of poverty as soon as you like, the media is yours anyway.
After the Communist Party announced the completion of the poverty eradication target, Xi Jinping proposed at the Communist Party’s Central Rural Work Conference in late December last year to comprehensively promote rural revitalization and set up a five-year transition period from the date of poverty eradication for counties that have escaped poverty.
Meanwhile, the State Council’s Poverty Alleviation Office will be transformed into the National Rural Revitalization Bureau in 2021, with the new leadership team, such as Xia Jincheng and Hong Tianyun, and Su Guoxia, director of the comprehensive department, mostly being the original team of poverty alleviation.
Hu Ping said that China’s poverty alleviation achievements are quite fragile, and this Time, it continues to pretend old wine in new bottles with rural revitalization. It just fiddles with the numbers or gives temporary patches.”
Wen Guanzhong, a tenured professor of economics at Trinity College in the United States who has long studied rural China, believes that China spends a considerable amount of money on poverty alleviation and supporting agriculture, and with collective ownership, you spend more manpower and material resources, and the efficiency is very low. If the issue of collective ownership of land and the hukou system is not eventually resolved, the rural population will inevitably share poverty.
An official in the system has told foreign media that the Chinese Communist Party has four major plays to fight poverty: first, direct means, that is, a comprehensive reduction in the standard line of poverty eradication; second, comprehensive falsification of poverty eradication data; third, “surprise condolences to the whole population to fight poverty”, the proverbial kick in the pants, that is, there is no way but to send him money; fourth, the last trick, is the falsification of the whole population to fight poverty “brutal sealing mouth”.
In addition to political poverty eradication may lead to increasingly poor farmers, the impact of the epidemic, the major food powers have also restricted exports, China is facing a serious problem of food shortages.
In 2020, the Communist Party’s top brass has repeatedly mentioned the issue of food security. Xi Jinping has also ordered to stop China’s food and beverage waste. At the same time, several grain-producing provinces have circulated online notices of grain price increases, with prices of all grain products rising sharply, and grain prices will follow the market.
The Chinese Communist Party media also published an article by Zhou Li, former Vice Minister of the Central Federation of China, warning to prepare for the outbreak of a global food crisis. At the same time, the Chinese Communist Party asked farmers to “retreat from farming to preserve food”, which also shows the seriousness of the food crisis.
Citing a poem written by a Hunan University professor who visited his Family in his hometown on New Year’s Day, Hu pointed out that the historical mistake of sacrificing the countryside for development since the CCP came to power could not be completely reversed in 30 years. The Chinese Communist Party has also never spent much effort in the countryside.
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