HANGZHOU, China, Dec. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese Rural
Revitalizing 2019 and the First Forum on Belt & Road Initiative
Agricultural and Rural Development convened on December 1 in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang
Province.
Hosted by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, National
Agricultural Science & Technology Innovation Alliance, Chinese
Society of Agricultural Engineering, China Economic Information
Service (CEIS) of Xinhua News Agency, and two academic institutions
from Zhejiang University, the
forum attracted over 300 agricultural experts and business leaders
from the Belt and Road (B&R) countries to discuss rural
revitalization and the choices for development paths under the Belt
and Road Initiative (BRI), with topics including "rural reform",
"digital agriculture", "inclusive finance", etc.
The forum released a report contributed by CEIS, about the
promoting of industry integration and high-quality development in
China's rural areas. The report
states the recent progress of industry integration in China's rural areas and analyzes the factors
restraining the current agricultural industry integration.
The report also says that the promotion of rural industry
integration is to introduce modern industrial development concepts
and organization patterns into the agricultural sector, and promote
the industry integration in the rural areas to lay a solid
foundation for thriving rural businesses.
Xu Yuchang, chairman and
president of CEIS, said that the report is the result of a
long-term focus on rural revitalization and development by CEIS. He
also revealed that CEIS will not only provide its services for the
national strategy implementation and local economic and social
development but also continue to pay more attention to and help
with rural revitalization and prosperity in the future.
Cooperatives represent an essential force for rural
revitalization, and cultivating new agricultural operation entities
and developing diversified operations with due scale is inevitable
routes for China to realize
agriculture modernization, according to Sun Zhonghua, chairman of
China Society of Cooperative Economics (CSCE).
The cooperation between government and enterprises will
effectively empower rural development, according to the experts
attending the forum. For example, a company in Zhejiang promoted the classification of
household waste in rural areas by integrating operations and
management with a cloud platform, making rural household waste
classification intelligent and standardized.
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