Revitalizing Rural China: Li Xiaoyun’s Vision for Thriving Villages
Rural Revitalization: The Key to China’s Modernization
Rural revitalization is the most important component of China’s modernization. Without rural revitalization, China’s modernization cannot be achieved. We cannot achieve China’s modernization under the pattern of huge gap between urban and rural structures.
The Core Issue: Talent
How to realize rural modernization? One of the core issues is talent. Nowadays, a large number of people have moved to cities, and the relative importance of the rural economy to the entire national economy has begun to decline. Under this circumstance, rural areas have become quite scarce. Why? Because the advancement of urbanization and industrialization has led to changes in the relationship between urban and rural areas. Changes in the relationship between urban and rural areas have led to an increase in the scarcity of rural areas. The increase in the scarcity of rural areas has led to an increase in the relative value of rural areas, and the increase in the relative value of rural areas has provided new space for the development of new rural areas.
Building Livable, Business-Friendly, and Beautiful Villages
Today’s rural revitalization does not mean that people who cannot find jobs in cities can find jobs in the countryside; it does not mean that educated young people should face the loess and back to the sky and do what their ancestors have done. Today’s rural revitalization first concept is to build villages into livable, business-friendly and beautiful villages. Livable, business-friendly and beautiful villages include all aspects of public services and public facilities, which are very important basic work for rural revitalization.
Developing New Agriculture
On this basis, we must develop new agriculture, enhance the value of the entire agricultural industry chain, and no longer view agriculture as plowing the land with cows or donkeys. Today’s agriculture is a highly intelligent and technological agriculture, which we call modern agriculture. Farmers who return to their hometowns and those who stay in the countryside are no longer farmers in the past sense. They are new farmers armed with modern knowledge, modern technology, and modern skills. They no longer just farm in the fields, but also manage the countryside and turn the products of the countryside into high-quality commodities that meet market requirements.
Today’s countryside presents a pattern of continuously increasing relative value, which is one of the most important characteristics of China’s modernization drive to this day.
