BEIJING: The Communist Party of China (CPC) leadership’s development proposals have offered enormous inspiration for the Chinese people from farmers to entrepreneurs to scientists.
The full text of the CPC Central Committee’s proposals for formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035, released on Tuesday, has drawn a development blueprint for the world’s second-largest economy in the coming years.
China will prioritize the development of agriculture and rural areas, and will fully advance rural vitalization, according to the document.
The rural vitalization strategy and increasing government investment mean more rural opportunities in the future, said Liu Hairong, a farmer in Linxian County, north China’s Shanxi Province. The 36-year-old now feels more confident in his business in his hometown.
Planting jujube trees and alfalfa and raising sheep, Liu is trying to build up a circular economy mode on the Loess Plateau, a region with barren land and a fragile ecosystem covering parts of north and northwest China.
Formerly a migrant worker in Xinfadi, Beijing’s largest farm-produce wholesale market, Liu returned to his hometown in 2010 and began to collect red dates from local growers to supply to the market in Beijing. In 2019, he planted 20 hectares of alfalfa in his jujube orchard to develop an ecological breeding system. “Alfalfa is a kind of high-quality forage grass, which can be harvested several times a year,” said Liu. – Agencies
