Building socialist new rural area shall play a crucial part in the all-around building of a well-off society in Ningbo as well as a strategic measure in coordinating the development between the urban and rural areas. We shall advance the drive by following the requirements of developing production, creating a well-off life, developing civilized folk customs, beautifying rural communities and actualizing democratic administration in a practical way.

Part 1. Advancing Agricultural Modernization

To raise the agricultural productivity is a major task in building the socialist new rural area. We shall therefore consolidate the fundamental status of agricultural and raise the modernization level.

1. To secure a stable comprehensive production capacity

We shall secure a comprehensive production capacity of 1.5 million tons of grains per year, with the production maintained at 0.8 million tons. We shall keep offering direct subsidies to grains growers and protecting the enthusiasm in production. We shall carry out a strict farmland protection system, so as to raise the capacity and output of basic farmlands. A total number of 26, 800 hectares of farmlands will be developed. We shall go on with the tideland reclamation project, trying to add 9500 hectares of standard farmlands by reclamation. The flood prevention works shall be improved, with the seawalls consolidated to total 179 kilometers. A number of water conservancy works will be built.
To transform the agro-growth mode. We shall encourage multiple cropping, rotation cropping, and stereo farming and other modern farming methods, develop facility agriculture, circular agriculture, green agriculture and recreation farming. We shall advance standardized production, speed up farming mechanization and develop economic-type agriculture. We shall quicken the pace in vitalizing agriculture with science and technology, organize to put into practice some technical innovations in breeding, storage and preservation, green and safety and value-added processing, etc., introduce and popularize a number of sci-tech achievements of farming, planning and set up a number of agro-demo parks and seedling bases.

2. To optimize agricultural structure and layout

To improve product structure. We shall work strenuously to develop high-yield, efficient, top-quality, eco-friendly and green produce. We shall enlarge production scales of top-grade paddy rice, high-mountain vegetables, export-oriented flowers and plants. We shall strive to make the coverage rate of fine varieties reach 95%, and set up 650 bases of green produce.
To better agro-structure. We shall exert great efforts to develop economic crops on the premise of ensuring the grain production capacity, focusing on the six advantageous varieties of vegetables, fruits, aquatic products, tea, flowers and plants. We shall protect and develop in a rational way the marine fishery resources. Efforts shall be made to breed crop-saving herbivores, special poultry and livestock and set up a number of scale-breeding bases and green livestock bases.
To optimize zoning layout. We shall accelerate the construction of four industrial belts, namely, export-oriented vegetable belt, tideland and shallows breeding belt, special and famous flowers and plants belt and herbivores livestock and poultry belt. We shall do the utmost to set up 100 of agricultural production bases of scale and 20 urban agricultural parks, to basically form a rational layout of agricultural zones with clear-cut functions and distinctive features.

3. To improve agriculture service system

We shall give full play to the government functions of providing agricultural public good, set up public service systems for farm produce technical standardization, quality and safety standards, animal epidemic control and protection of vegetation. We shall strengthen the building of information system and popularization of information applications in rural areas. We shall assist in developing rural specialty cooperatives and farm mechanization organizations, so as to raise the organization level.

Part 2. Improving Rural Well-being

Sticking to the principle of “Planning as a Whole, Step-by-Step Implementing, Government Guidance, on Voluntary Basis”, we shall reinforce the construction of rural infrastructure and speed up the development of public utilities in rural areas, to make farmers share the fruits of modern civilization.

1. To reinforce construction of rural infrastructure

To build urban-rural integrated infrastructure. We shall advance the building of rural roads, trying to realize the Three-100 Targets ahead of schedule of the province and to complete the road networking in rural areas. We shall keep carrying out the waterway dredging project and the drinking water project for farmers, trying to basically realize the linking of urban and rural water supply networks. The safe drinking water coverage in rural areas shall reach 100%. We shall do well the follow-up construction and management of rural power grids redevelopment. Besides, we shall launch a number of rural power grid projects, thus to establish a rather complete power grid and power supply system. 
To improve the rural hygienic environment and rural landscape. We shall exert greater efforts to rebuild rural water supply system and latrine pits, to treat the pollution in farms, to discharge the living wastewater in fixed places, etc. We shall accelerate the construction of garbage treatment facilities in rural area and establish a three-tiered garbage treatment mode, namely, collection in villages, transfer in towns and treatment at county seats.

2. To develop rural public services

We shall popularize the 15-year education at a high level and carry out in an all-around way the 9-year free compulsory education in the rural areas. We shall improve the layout of primary schools and middle schools and standardize the teaching facilities. We shall strengthen the training of the teachers so as to raise the teachers’ qualifications and quality. Great efforts shall be made to implement the Four Projects related to rural primary and middle schools.
Great efforts shall be made to improve the health care services and to set up the three-tiered health care network, namely, the county-level, township-level and the village-level healthcare systems. We shall improve the new-type rural cooperative Medicare system and advance the minor disease benefit system, trying to make the new-type rural cooperative Medicare services cover 90% of rural areas.
We shall advance the construction of the Rural Well-off Sports Project and build up the fitness of rural residents. We shall develop rural communication conditions and basically realize the all-around coverage of broadband networks. We shall carry out the A-Thousand-Village-Culture-Bases Project and the Radio-and-TV-in-All Villages Project. Meanwhile, we shall implement the Culture-Science-and-Healthcare-Going-to-Countryside campaigns. We shall push forward the campaigns of building Culturally-Leading (wenmin) Rural Communities, advocating the healthy way of life among rural residents. We shall promote the building of chain supermarkets and stores with no fake products, trying to better the consumption environment in rural areas.
In accordance with the principle of “Low Threshold, Multi-tiered, Wide Coverage, and Being Compatible”, we shall establish a new-type rural endowment system, with focus on those whose land has been expropriated. We shall make it cover all these people, in a timely manner. We shall complete the minimum living security system and the social welfare system, trying to minimize the gap in minimum living allowance between those of urban and rural residents.

3. To build new rural residential communities

We shall compile plans for building new rural communities and quarters, encouraging farmers to reside in the new communities. We shall first start up some pilot residential communities. Besides, we shall accelerate the redevelopment of villages in city outskirts, and villages within parks or gardens and set up a rational and standardized administrative system for rural new residential communities. Meanwhile, we shall attach importance to the preservation of old villages and old residence, so as to sustain the historical threads and heritage.
We shall further the implementation of the “To-Demo-100-Villages-and-Redevelop-1000 -Villages Project and carry out in an all-around way the village redevelopment and the environment regulation. We shall establish 260 all-around well-off demo villages, and complete renovation of the reserved villages. We shall advance the building of central towns and central villages, giving a full play of their transition role in the new community construction.
We shall speed up the process of extending the urban community services to the new rural communities, and gradually set up the county-township-village (three-tiered) network with complete facilities, functions and info sharing, aiming to establish a fifteen-minute life service circle, a fifteen-minute cultural activity circle and a fifteen-minute healthcare service circle, thus to provide facile related services to farmers.

Part 3. Increasing Farmers’ Income
We shall take the increase of farmers’ income as the key to the issue of countryside, farmer and agriculture, tap the potentials for production increase, and seek more channels to increase non-agricultural income.

1. To tap potentials to increase agro- production

We shall proactively tap the agriculture’s production, living and ecological functions, increase the production of green foods, develop recreational agriculture and encourage farmers to export the advantageous products, aiming to increase farmers’ income by enlarging the agricultural functions.
To carry out the Qianglong (To make key enterprises still stronger) Project and advance the industrialized management of agriculture. We shall render key support to a number of key enterprises boasting good benefits, great potentiality and strong boosting force. We plan to have 50 key agricultural enterprises with respective sales volume of 100 million RMB yuan by 2010. We shall keep advancing the precision and further processing of produce and prolonging the industrial chain, trying to have a processing rate of 50% of all produce. We shall develop chain operating, planting-by-order and other modern marketing strategies, so as to form an industrialized management mechanism of “market as the head leading the base, and the base connecting the farmer household”. And hopefully, the advancing of agro-industrialization can bring about more benefits to farmers.

2. To increase non-agricultural income

The non-agriculture sector is an important source of income for farmers. In accordance with the guidelines of “scientific layout and intensive development”, we shall make full use of the advantages of booming block economy and private economy of the city to speed up the pace of agricultural industrialization. The rural areas in vicinity of urban areas should give full scope to their location advantages, proactively develop urban-type industries and take the initiative to carry on the radiating effect of the urban economy. Other rural areas should activate the idle land while regulating the land use. Based on the existing industrial foundation, they should do their utmost to develop a key product per village. We shall cultivate special or featured villages and towns, trying to form a new agricultural system with a rational layout, distinctive features and a sharp competitive edge. We shall guide the transfer of rural labor forces to the secondary and tertiary industries and the migration of rural population to urban area. We shall try all means to raise farmers’ income. We plan to transfer a total number of 300,000 farmers within five years’ time.

3.  To raise comprehensive qualifications of farmers

To elevate comprehensive qualifications of farmers is an important means to facilitate the increase of farmers’ income. We shall further carryout the One Million Farmers Training Project that is geared to the market demand, with focus on training of the land-loss farmers, fishermen who have picked up other trades, mountaineers who have migrated down to flat areas and newly-added labor force, strengthening farmers’ capacity of increasing income. We plan to finish training of 200,000 farmers.

4. To set up a sound Supporting Farmer System

By sticking to the principle of “More Granting, Less Levying and Flexible Administration”, we aim to set up a stable mechanism for increasing input of public finances into agriculture and keep the growth rate of agricultural input higher than that of current expenditures of public finances. By making a proper use of the WTO Blue Box policies and the Green Box policies, we shall gradually set up a protection and support system for agriculture. We shall keep implementing the state subsidy policies on farmers, make more efforts to draw up supportive measures and improve means of granting subsidies. We shall inject public finances into the building of a socialist rural area; the newly added input in education, health care and culture shall be mainly for use in rural areas.

Part 4. Deepening Reforms in Rural Areas

We shall advance the comprehensive supporting reforms in rural areas, set up a sound long-term mechanism for the practice of “Industry to Aid Agricultural, Urban to Support Rural”, and gradually establish an integrated urban-rural system. We shall mainly focus on the supporting reforms in township institutions, rural compulsory education, and county-township financial systems.
We shall stick to the land contracting system, protecting farmers’ land contracting right in accordance to law. In accordance with the principle of “Being Legal and Voluntary, on paying basis”, we shall set up a sound collective land transfer system to promote and regulate collective-owned land transfer. We shall reform the systems of land requisition, residence-use land and other non-agricultural land use. Via the community share-holding cooperative system, we shall proactively deepen the reform of management of collective assets. Besides, we shall deepen the rural financial reform and develop banking establishments oriented to the rural areas. Meanwhile, we shall explore to develop rural insurance industry. 
We shall intensify the administrative reform, make clear the duties and rights of the city, county and district and develop public services and social undertakings in rural areas. We shall gradually unify the urban and rural household register systems and wipe out the institutional differences in household register administration. Great efforts shall be made to advance the rural grassroots democracy development, improve the transparency of village affairs and the democratic administration system, and launch the Three Systems of democratic deliberation and consultation, collective auditing and monitoring of collective finances, and democratic assessment of village leaders.