According to the meeting of directors of Agricultural and Rural Departments held on the Dec 30th, 2018, China's grain production has remained stable in 2018, with a total output of 6579 billion kilograms, which is another bumper harvest year.
In 2018, China's agricultural and rural development has made new achievements. Good harvest of grain has been achieved and the Rural Revitalization has begun well. Agricultural and rural situation continues to stabilize and improve, which provides a strong support for the overall economic and social development, adds confidence to cope with economic risks and challenges, and plays a role of "ballast stone".
Agricultural and rural development maintained a good momentum, because we firmly grasped the main line of continuing to promote the structural reform of agricultural supply side, the key of increasing grain income and the general grasp of the strategy of rural revitalization.
Agricultural industry structure is optimized in adjustment and developed in integration. In 2018, more than 53.3 thousand hectares of rice and 26.7 thousand hectares of maize were reduced in non-dominant areas, the area of grain conversion and feeding reached 953 thousand hectares, and the area of rice and fish comprehensive cultivation exceeded 2 million hectares. The ratio of agricultural products processing industry to agricultural outputs value reached 23:1, and the business income of leisure agriculture and rural tourism exceeded 800 billion yuan.
The grain production capacity has been steadily improved. In 2018, 620 million hectares of functional areas for grain production and protected areas for important agricultural products production were delineated, and the tasks of delineating rice, wheat and soybeans were completed. In the whole year, 55 million hectares of new high-standard farmland was built, the area of high-efficiency water-saving irrigation exceeded 13.4 million hectares, and the area of deep ploughing of agricultural machinery exceeded 100 million hectares.
The Rural Revitalization has begun well. Strategic planning for Rural Revitalization has been issued, the improvement of rural human settlements has been launched and the construction of beautiful countryside has been further promoted.
