Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: By 2025, a total of 1.075 billion mu of high-standard farmland will have been built.

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2021-09-17

On September 16, the State Council Information Office held a regular policy briefing to introduce the National Plan for High-Standard Farmland Construction (2021–2030). At the press conference, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Zhang Taolin stated that the plan sets out clear targets: by 2025, a cumulative total of 1.075 billion mu of high-standard farmland will have been built, with an additional 105 million mu undergoing renovation and upgrading; by 2030, this figure will rise to 1.2 billion mu of newly built high-standard farmland, complemented by the renovation and upgrading of another 280 million mu. By 2035, both the total area and the quality of high-standard farmland nationwide are expected to see further improvements.

At the meeting, Zhang Taolin stated that by the end of 2020, the country had completed the construction of 800 million mu of high-standard farmland. The newly built high-standard farmland has yielded significant benefits in water, electricity, fertilizer, pesticide, and labor savings, with grain yields per mu generally increasing by 10% to 20% and cost reductions and efficiency gains averaging approximately RMB 500 per mu. This has played a crucial role in safeguarding farmers’ enthusiasm for grain production and ensuring that national grain output has remained stable at over 650 million tons for many consecutive years.

He pointed out that the Plan places a strong emphasis on addressing specific problems and achieving clear objectives, and, compared with the previous national master plan for high-standard farmland construction covering 2011–2020, it features three salient characteristics. Grounded in the goal of ensuring basic self-sufficiency in grain and absolute food security, the Plan prioritizes enhancing grain production capacity. It focuses first and foremost on permanent basic farmland and the “Two Zones”—namely, grain-production functional zones and key agricultural-product protection zones—concentrating resources to develop contiguous, drought- and flood‑resilient, water‑efficient, stable‑yielding, high‑yielding, and environmentally friendly high-standard farmland. This will help establish a number of staple‑crop fields capable of producing 500 kilograms per mu per season or one ton per mu across two seasons, thereby further strengthening the foundation for national food security and ensuring that China’s food supply remains firmly in its own hands.

“In response to the principal constraints facing grain production in different regions, we will adopt a categorized approach, dividing national high-standard farmland development into seven zones—Northeast, Huang–Huai–Hai, Middle and Lower Yangtze River, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest, and Qinghai–Tibet—and, based on local conditions, set forth priority areas for development as well as province-specific targets and tasks,” said Zhang Taolin.

In addition, Zhang Taolin emphasized the need to give equal weight to new construction and renovation and upgrading, to both the quantity of projects built and the quality of completed works, and to engineering implementation and post‑construction management and maintenance, while ensuring that productivity enhancement and green development are coordinated—what he termed the “three priorities and one coordination.” He also called for the rational planning of upgrading and renovating existing high‑standard farmland, further bolstering grain production and the supply of key agricultural products, and laying a stronger, more efficient, and more sustainable foundation for national food security.

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