context: Finalising this law is key to building the policy framework for rural revitalisation. Echoing existing policy measures, the newly proposed changes show stronger protection of farmland and emphasis on food security, and cover more cultural, social and environment topics.
The newest draft of the Rural Revitalisation Promotion Law is being reviewed for the third time, says Zang Tiewei 臧铁伟 NPC Standing Committee Legislative Affairs Committee speaker, reports Farmer Daily. The following new changes are proposed based on comments collected from the previous public consultation
- further stressing food security
- preventing non-farm use of farmland
- securing seed security
- highlighting rural cultural revitalisation and adding harvest festival regulations
- improving support for rural industry development
- improving rural human resources development
- policy incentives to encourage education and medical professionals to serve rural areas
- training talent in tech, management, legal services and social work
- improving skills training, vocational and continuing education
- adding more ag-related subjects in schools
- building a cross-regional collaborative talent cultivation system
- improving consolidation of poverty alleviation results
- completing support for rural-urban integration
- forbidding de-designation and combination of villages against farmers’ will
Zang elaborates on the following measures for strengthening farmers' rights
- securing individual members’ right to receive distributed profits from collective operations
- improving village self-rule via village committee
- improving the urban-rural integrated social security system
- ensuring basic pension increases along with societal development
- strengthening care for women, elderly, left-behind children and children in need
- securing rural migrants’ rights in urban areas
- forbidding illegal construction on and use of farmland