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unite and lead farmers in realizing prosperity in order to ensure employment and
sustained income growth for those who have escaped poverty. We facilitated
follow-up support for people who have been relocated from inhospitable areas and

offered regular assistance to low-income rural residents. Harnessing industries to
drive the development of rural areas, we supported the development of 50 national

modern agriculture industrial parks, 40 clusters of leading agro-industries with
unique advantages, and 200 towns with unique agro-industrial strengths. We
supported more than 20,000 villages in developing and growing their collective

economies and 400 villages in building themselves into beautiful villages with rich
CPC heritage. We worked to boost the coverage, pace, and integration of

comprehensive rural reform trials, launching new trials and experiments in 13
localities.

Promoting coordinated regional development
We implemented fiscal and tax policies supporting major regional strategies

for the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the
development of the Yangtze Economic Belt, the development of the
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the integrated development

of the Yangtze River Delta. We also introduced policies and plans to provide
support for the Yellow River basin in promoting ecological conservation and

high-quality development, for Guizhou Province in working faster to improve its
fiscal governance capacity and exploring new ways to achieve high-quality

development, for Shandong Province in replacing old drivers of growth and
achieving green, low-carbon, and high-quality development, and for Shenzhen in

exploring innovations to its fiscal policy system and management institutions.
Transfer payments to old revolutionary base areas, areas with large ethnic minority
populations, border areas, and less-developed areas increased by 8.2%. We

advanced the development of Hainan Free Trade Port, expanding the zero-tariff
list and opening more offshore duty-free shops.

 We promoted the green and low-carbon transition and continued to
improve the environment.

We actively promoted the development of the national park-based nature
reserve system, and introduced guidelines on the implementation of major fiscal

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