■Rapid Development of the Rural Economy on Science and Technology

As a big agricultural province, Jilin has been getting into trouble with increasing grain production but no increasing income, no place to store, and no way to sell. The main reason was lack of scientific and technological support and also because of the low industrial level. In the last year, Jilin province have found the way to the mordern agriculture from the traditional agriculture, and paid close attention to scientific and technological support, quality and efficiency, and industrialization. In 2006，the entire province rural economy growth way has realized by the extension to intensive, the scalar type to the quality efficiency significant transformation.

The provincial rural economy realized the transformation of growth pattern, from a numerically superior type to a qualitatively efficient type. According to statistics, Jilin province popularized 20 material technologies, 650,000 hectares fertile lands in 2006, the offer rate from agriculture scientific and technological progress reached 50%, 2 percentage point higher than the average level in the country. The area of special high quality corn, soybean and rice reached 349,100 hectares, 50% of national planting areas. There are 1766 organic and non-pollution farm produce marks, with supervised area 280,000 hectares, 35% of the crop areas. Synthetic mechanization level of main crops reached 47%. The level to resist, prevent and avoid agricultural calamity was remarkably improved by weather forecast alarm and evaluation depended on modern high-tech means.

■Reform’s Great Progress in the County

Jilin Province implemented the breakthrough policy for county territory, to strengthen counties by enlarging their authority and gave more financial support at county level, strengthened the construction of industrial concentration area and agricultural industrial production centralized area, set up the drive mechanism for county (city) to strive to be the first. The innovation of system and mechanism stimulated the intrinsic motivity and vigor to develop the economy of the county territory. According to statistics, the main economic index including total output value, financial revenue, investment in fixed assets, the total sales volume of social consumable and so on in county all exceeded the entire province average level. In 2006, in counties of Jilin province, GDP increased above 19%, the investment in fixed assets grew above 55%, the full aperture financial revenue increased above 16%, this level of financial revenue grows 25%, outdid 5 percentage points of the entire province average level. The status of “big agriculture county, small industry county and poor finance county” has been changed gradually. At the same time, on the base of finance administration system of “town finance was administrated by county and used by town”, and “the province administers county directly”, Jilin actively searched the way to improve the public financial service ability for countryside, started pilot project of agricultural insurance to solve the debt in countryside. In addition, a series of reforms have made great progress, including reforms of grain circulation system, supply and marketing cooperative system, countryside credit association, state-owned farm, investment and management organization of forestry, irrigation work and so on.

■Transformation of the Rural Management

Through the construction of agricultural industrialization projects, everyone got the benefit, the price of farm produce went up continuously. Suit to the market rule, Jilin province worked hard to plan the project construction, the modern agricultural engineering, the agricultural project, to form new productivity. Pay special attention to implement policy well to stimulate the enthusiasm of farmers and enterprises; using the economic method to realize the production and marketing integration; using modern information method to understand the market to provide the policy service, the technical service and the economic information service for operator. Enhance the foreign investments and cooperation to build the exchange and cooperation platform for the counties area and the enterprises. The important symbol of the rural work organization patterns transforms is to Change administration to serve and instruction, to depend upon the market to optimize resources disposition, to stress the project construction, to cultivate main item enterprises, to develop cooperative organization and guide the farmers to develop the economy. In “ten big projects of basic construction” for agriculture and rural economy, Jilin province has achieved 248 items with total investment and circulating capital 5,710,000,000 Yuan, increased 17.2%. Jilin has put in effect 2,200,000,000 Yuan fund from country to benefit the farmers. The province has realized agriculture order forms of 29,520,000 Chinese acres, 296,000,000 poultry order forms. Through expositions to invite investments, the scene product transaction 520,000,000 Yuan has been realized. The province has also signed 186 cooperation contracts with total capital 16,000,000,000 Yuan and evaluated 717 “Jilin name brand agricultural product”. Developed 3900 farmer economic cooperative organization in various kinds, with 521,000 farm households, helped 962,000 farm households, accounted for 13.7% and 25.2% of the entire province farm household separately; set up 85 specialized market and 176 comprehensive ones with the yearly trade volume more than 280 hundred million Yuan, have formed the characteristic region agricultural product market trade pattern. Jilin province is rushing towards well-off society with happy songs on the fertile land.

■New Appearances of Rural Reconstruction

Jilin province acted as circumstances permit, planned scientificly, advanced to building a new socialist countryside solidly, and formed mighty resultant force with government leading, farmer as main body, social members widespread participating. Now we have seen the excellent aspect of the countryside development with pilot work at three levels of provinces, cities and counties, advancing in echelon, key assistants. The government spent 100,000,000 Yuan to arrange the pilot work, and drived the society to invest 18.4 hundred million, started 2713 various kinds of items of construction. In province there are 522 pilot villages, 80 pilot towns. Jilin province have set up 935 new animal husbandry plot, agricultural standardization model district, agricultural products processing items, and have formed the characteristic leading industry, realized the farmer to continue to increase incomes, average per person net income of the farmers from 115 pilot village in provincial level amounted to 4879 Yuan. The economic development caused the infrastructure improvement and the enhancement of public service ability. In 2006, Jilin province spent more than 36 hundred million Yuan to build the countryside road 7000 kilometers, built or transformed 7 countryside substation, built countryside methane-generating pit 5841 households. The countryside roads have stretched to the villages, the clean energy covered 30,000 farm households. 5942 village could drink the running water in province, with population of 4,089,000. 437,000 students enjoyed the favor policy. The new countryside cooperative medical care pilots have covered 24 counties (city). The cable TV users reached 2,707,000 households, accounted 70.9% of the total household. 60 counties (city, area) and 624 villages and towns in the whole province all have built the countryside information service platform and the service station. 800 administrative villages established the information service point, occupied the third in the country. New fixed telephone reached 100,000 households, mobile phone 1,320,000 households. 800,000 people participated the lowest social security, Constructed 543 countryside social welfare center, rescue 20,000 people with big sickness, spent 28,740,000 Yuan. Further consummated the construction of county cultural building, library, villages and towns synthesizes the cultural station, village culture activity room; new progress has made sports place construction for all the people. The countryside appearance has had the historical changes.(The Information Office of the People’s Government of Jilin Province)