🌱 **China's Agricultural Triumph Boosts Rural Revitalization**
China is making significant strides in advancing rural revitalization through robust agricultural development. Despite facing numerous natural challenges in 2024, including high temperatures, droughts, extreme floods, and super typhoons, the country achieved a remarkable grain production of over 706 million tonnes, marking a 1.6% increase from the previous year.
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This impressive yield was supported by expanding grain planting areas, which grew to over 119 million hectares, a 0.3% increase year-on-year. Additionally, grain output per unit area rose by 1.3%, demonstrating enhanced agricultural efficiency.
Rural residents also saw their disposable income increase by 6.3%, reaching 23,119 yuan (approximately $3,186) per capita. This economic boost is a direct result of the comprehensive measures outlined in China's \"No. 1 central document\" for 2025, which emphasizes deepening rural reforms and ensuring sustainable economic growth.
🌾 The expansion of soybean and oilseed cultivation has been successfully consolidated, with soybean output hitting 20.65 million tonnes. This progress strengthens China's self-sufficiency in edible vegetable oils.
🚜 Mechanization in crop cultivation and harvesting has surpassed 75%, and China has completed significant projects in constructing, renovating, and upgrading high-standard farmland. By the end of 2024, the nation had developed more than 66.7 million hectares of high-standard farmland and over 10 million kilometers of irrigation and drainage channels, playing a crucial role in drought and flood prevention across various regions.
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Consolidating agricultural foundation to advance rural revitalization
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