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prevention and emergency response and aid. We strengthened funding support for
emergency response, increased reserves of disaster relief materials, and ensured
immediate approval and allocation of funds to support local governments’ efforts

in disaster prevention, relief, and reconstruction.
 We promoted rural revitalization and worked to ensure more balanced

and coordinated development between regions.
Helping ensure a good harvest
We backed the development of an additional 6.67 million hectares of

high-standard farmland and the application of conservation tilling techniques on
5.33 million hectares of chernozem soil cropland. In response to the rising prices of

agricultural supplies, we provided 40 billion yuan in subsidies for grain producers,
which were disbursed in three payments. We supported the raising of minimum

purchase prices for rice and wheat as appropriate, implemented subsidies for
corn-soybean strip intercropping, and increased rewards for major

grain-producing counties. We thus ensured farmers were motivated to grow grains
and local governments were motivated to keep a focus on grain production. We
supported trials for the integrated research, production, and application of

agricultural machinery, implemented the policy of piloting subsidies for the
purchase and use of such machinery, and promoted the use of BeiDou-based

intelligent terminals in agricultural production. We worked to see that full-cost
insurance and income insurance for the three main grain crops of rice, wheat, and

corn covered all major grain-producing counties in the 13 major grain-producing
provinces. We introduced subsidies for the mixed use of agricultural chemicals

against crop diseases and pests, dry and hot wind, and premature aging, so as to
aid the healthy growth of wheat in summer. We allocated 10 billion yuan from
central government reserve funds for drought and disaster response to ensure a

good autumn harvest. As a result, grain output reached 685 million metric tons,
staying above 650 million metric tons for the eighth consecutive year.

Aligning efforts to consolidate and build upon achievements in the battle against
poverty with those to promote rural revitalization

We continued to increase the central government follow-up rural revitalization
assistance fund, channeling greater support to the development of industries that

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