The following are the major projects China is set to undertake
to boost the building of a new countryside during the 2006-2010
period, listed in the draft guidelines of the five-year development
guidelines, being deliberated by Chinese lawmakers at their ongoing
annual session:
-- Large grain, cotton and edible oil production bases and
quality grain industrial projects, which also involve breeding of
improved strains, plant disease and insect pest prevention and
control, and popularization of farm machinery.
-- Fertile soil projects, aimed at transforming medium- and low-
yield farmland into high-yield cropland.
-- Crop protection projects, aimed at improving grassroots
centers for harmful organism monitoring and control, building some
demonstration bases for locust control by ecological and biological
means, farm chemical safety testing centers and biotechnology
testing centers, to reduce to the minimum the dangers brought about
by plant diseases, insect pests, weeds, mice and other harmful
living things.
-- Transformation of large irrigated areas and that of the large
draining pump stations in the four provinces of Hunan, Hubei,
Jiangxi and Anhui.
-- Improved strain and fine breed projects, aimed at building of
crop germplasm resources banks, crop improvement centers, fine
strain breeding bases, farms of live stock, poultry and aquiculture
pure breeds, aquiculture genetics and breeding centers, crop
germplasm resources farms and testing centers.
-- Animal epidemic prevention system, comprised of six
subsystems for animal disease monitoring, prevention and control,
quarantine and supervision, veterinary medicine quality supervision
and remnant control, and technical support and material supply for
animal epidemic prevention.
-- Agricultural product quality control and safety supervision
system, at national, regional, provincial and county levels.
-- Rural drinking water safety, aimed to provide safe drinking
water to 100 million rural residents.
-- Rural roads, aimed at building and transforming 1.2
kilometers of rural roads leading to all towns and villages with
ready conditions.
-- Rural methane, mainly for daily use in rural households, in
addition to large and medium-sized projects in some large animal
and poultry farms.
-- Electricity to village and green energy county projects,
aimed at establishing 50 green energy demonstration counties, and
enable 3.5 million rural households without power supply to enjoy
electricity.
-- Rural medical care system, mainly to cover rural areas in
central and west China.
-- Rural family planning service system, mainly to cover rural
areas in central and west China. -- Transfer of rural labor force
aimed at providing technical training and employment service to
rural laborers.
(Xinhua News Agency March 6, 2006)