Executive Summary
General Situation 3
Crop Production 6
Animal Husbandry 14
Veterinary Services 19
Fishery 28
Forestry 35
Land Reclamation 3 8
Agricultural Mechanization 40
Crop Seed Industry 43
Agro-product Prices and Market 49
Agro-product Imports and Exports 55
Agricultural Comprehensive Development 60
Feed Industry 64
Grassland Protection and Construction 67
Protection of Aquatic Life Resources and Aquatic Ecological Restoration 68
Agro-processing 72
Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism 75
Crop Disease and Pest Prevention and Control 77
Agricultural Market System Construction 80
Agricultural Informatization 85
Agro-products Quality Safety Management 88
National Modern Agriculture Demonstration Area Construction 89
Agricultural Scientific Research, Generalization and Education 92
Agricultural and Rural Talent Team Building 100
Agricultural Administrative Capacity Building 103
Agricultural Disasters 107
Agricultural Resources and Environment Protection 113
Agricultural International Cooperation and Exchange 118
Rural Development in 2017 123
General Situation 125
Rural Population and Employment 128
Agricultural and Rural Water Conservation Construction 130
Rural Electric Power Development 135
Rural Traffic Construction 138
Rural Residence Governance 139
Rural Education 141
Rural Culture 143
Rural Health Care 146
Rural Social Security 149
Rural Residents’ Income and Consumption 151
Rural Poverty Alleviation and Development 153
Agricultural and Rural Policies in 2017 157
Overall Evaluation 159
Financial Support in Agriculture 161
Deeply Implement Food Crop Production Strategy Based on Farmland Management and Technological Application 165
Promote Rural Green Development 172
Confirmation, Registration and Certification of Rural Land Contracting and Management Rights 175
Lightening Farmers’ Burdens 179
Develop Different Forms of Appropriately Scaled-up Operations 182
Reform of Rural Land Acquisition, Collective Operation Construction Land Entering Market, and Homestead System 187
Construction of Rural Reform Pilot Areas 190
Deepening Reform on Rural Collective Property Rights System 191
Promoting the Development of Farmers’ Cooperatives 194
Cultivating New-type Professional Farmers 200
Deepening Seed Industry System Reform 201
Agricultural Machinery Subsidy Policy 206
Rural Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Industry Integrated Development 208
Deepening Rural Financial Reform 209
Advancing the Comprehensive Reform on the Agriculture Water Price 213
Improve the Operation and Control Policies of Important Agro-products 217
Grass-root Agricultural Technology Promotion System Reform and Construction 218
Forestry Policy 220
Rural Labor Transfer 223
Rural Entrepreneurship and Innovation 225
Building the Rural Governance System 227
Enhance Agricultural Legal Construction 229
Agricultural and Rural Development and National Economy of 2017 233
Overall Evaluation 235
Agriculture’s Contribution to National Economy 236
Agriculture and National Income Distribution 238
Proportional Relation of Industrial and Agricultural Development 240
Income Gap between Urban and Rural Residents 241
Consumption Difference of Urban and Rural Residents 243
Regional Economic Development Disparity 245
The Agricultural and Rural Development Trend in 2018 249
Development Goals and Tasks 251
Conditions for Agricultural and Rural Development 253
Agricultural and Rural Development Trend Judgment 260
2017 Agricultural and Rural Chronicle of Events 265
Figure
Figure 1 Acreages of Different Crops in 2000 and 2017 4
Figure 2 Total Output of Grain from 2000 to 2017 7
Figure 3 Total Output of Cotton from 2000 to 2017 7
Figure 4 Total Output of Oil-bearing Crops from 2000 to 2017 8
Figure 5 Total Output of Sugar-bearing Crops from 2000 to 2017 8
Figure 6 Total Output of Fruits from 2000 to 2017 9
Figure 7 Total Output of Meat from 2000 to 2017 15
Figure 8 Total Output of Aquatic Products from 2000 to 2017 29
Figure 9 Monthly Wholesale Prices of Pork, Silver Carp and Vegetables in 2017 50
Figure 10 Producer Price Indices of Farm Products and Price Indices of Means of Agricultural Production from 2000 to 2017 50
Figure 11 Usage and Price Indices of Chemical Fertilizers from 2000 to 2017 51
Figure 12 Monthly Retail Prices of Urea in 2017 51
Figure 13 Usage and Retail Price Indices of Pesticides from 2000 to 2017 52
Figure 14 Production and Imports of Chemical Fertilizers from 2000 to 2017 52
Figure 15 Urban and Rural Consumer Price Indices from 2000 to 2017 54
Figure 16 Agro-product Exports in Proportion to National Total from 2000 to 2017 55
Figure 17 Agro-product Imports in Proportion to National Total from 2000 to 2017 56
Figure 18 Imports and Exports of Grain (not including soybeans) from 2000 to 2017 56
Figure 19 Changes in the Number of Enterprises Engaged in Processing Agricultural Products in 2016, 2017 72
Figure 20 Changes in the Profits of Enterprises Engaged in Processing Agricultural Products in 2016, 2017 73
Figure 21 Areas of Disaster-hit Farmland from 2000 to 2017 108
Figure 22 Agricultural Values Added in Proportion to GDP from 2000 to 2017 237
Figure 23 Income of Urban and Rural Residents from 2000 to 2017 239
Figure 24 Average Per Capita Living Expenses of Rural Residents from 2000 to 2017 244
Figure 25 Proportion of Retail Sales of Rural Consumer Goods from 2000 to 2017 244
Figure 26 Average Per Capita Disposable Income of Rural Residents in 2017 (by Provinces, Autonomous Regions and Municipalities) 247
Column
Column 1 Pilot project for the protection and utilization of black soil in Northeast China 12
Column 2 Steady progress in the utilization of livestock and poultry manure 16
Column 3 New achievements in modern dairy development 17
Column 4 Comprehensively strengthen H7N9 flu prevention and control 22
Column 5 Launch 100-day campaign on fighting against illegal actions on meant quality and safety 27
Column 6 Implementing the management system for marine fishery resources 30
Column 7 “Liangjian 2017” series of fishery special enforcement actions 34
Column 8 Big-data information platform construction of national agro-product crops 44
Column 9 Construction of National Southern Research and Breeding Base (Hainan) 48
Column 10 Establishing grain-production functional areas and major agro-product production protection areas 62
Column 11 In-depth implementation of transferring grain-crops to feed-crops in order to promote agricultural restructuring 66
Column 12 Year of Agricultural Brand Promotion 83
Column 13 Construction of National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park 90
Column 14 Pilot Zone on National Agricultural Sustainable Development 92
Column 15 Promoting the Construction of National Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Alliance 96
Column 16 Construction of Science and Technology Innovation Center of National Modern Agricultural Industry 98
Column 17 Construction of National Agricultural Science and Education Cloud Platform 100
Column 18 Campaign on Organic Fertilizer Replacing Chemical Fertilizer 116
Column 19 Newly added 20 million mu of high-efficiency water-saving irrigation project construction in 2017 132
Column 20 Notice on Printing and Distributing the Requirements for Establishing and Improving the Long-term Mechanism for Powering Rural Wells from National Energy Administration and other Two Departments 137
Column 21 “Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Renovation” project in Zhejiang 140
Column 22 Heze, Shandong comprehensively promotes the trend of changing customs, leading the new style of rural civilization 144
Column 23 Achievements in the construction of rural medical care system since the 18th National Congress of the CPC 148
Column 24 Vigorously promote agricultural production custody 177
Column 25 Rapid development of family farms 185
Column 26 Revision of the Law on Farmers’ Specialized Cooperatives 197
Column 27 National Rural Entrepreneurship and Innovation Park 226
Appendix 275
Table 1 Status of Rural Economy in National Economy 276
Table 2 Output Values of Crop Plantation, Forestry, Husbandry and Fishery (in current-year prices) 277
Table 3 Material Conditions for Agricultural Production 278
Table 4 Crop Acreage 279
Table 5 Natural Disasters, Waterlogging Control and Solodization 280
Table 6 Output of Major Farm Produce 281
Table 7 Livestock, Poultry and Aquatic Farming 282
Table 8 Major Economic Indicators of Agricultural Products Processing Industry (Unit: 100 million yuan) 283
Table 9 Supply, Demand and Prices of Rice 284
Table 10 Supply, Demand and Prices of Wheat 285
Table 11 Supply, Demand and Prices of Corn 286
Table 12 Supply, Demand and Prices of Soybeans 287
Table 13 Output, Imports and Exports of Grain and Edible Vegetable Oil 288
Table 14 Output, Import and Export of Cotton and Sugar 289
Table 15 Production, Consumption, Import and Export of Pork 290
Table 16 Production, Imports and Prices of Chemical Fertilizers and Pesticides 291
Table 17 Per Capita Income of Urban and Rural Residents 292
Table 18 Per Capita Spending of Urban and Rural Residents 293
Table 19 Price Indices 294
Table 20 Producer Price Indices of Farm Products 295
Table 21 Classified Retail Price Indices in Urban and Rural Areas 296
Table 22 Wholesale Prices of “Vegetable Basket” Products 297
Table 23 State Revenue and Expenditure 298
Postscript 299
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