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can help rural households increase their incomes. We will manage to use over 60%
of the follow-up rural revitalization assistance fund to upgrade such industries. We
will ensure the implementation of policies supporting areas such as education,

science and technology, and culture, and help areas and people that have just
shaken off poverty build their own momentum for growth.

We will build a beautiful and harmonious countryside that is desirable to live and work
in. We will coordinate the advancement of projects for integrated agro-industrial
development, support localities in developing national modern agriculture

industrial parks, towns with particular agro-industrial strengths, and clusters of
leading agro-industries with unique advantages, and facilitate the development of

new rural collective economies, thereby promoting high-quality development of
rural industries through a multi-dimensional approach. With the focus on key

areas and new types of agribusiness, we will advance the construction of
cold-storage and preservation facilities in agricultural production zones. We will

prioritize key tasks including reinforcement of dilapidated small reservoirs and
harnessing of small and medium rivers and support the expansion of water
conservancy investment and water conservancy infrastructure construction. We

will improve government reward and subsidy policies regarding the development
of public-interest programs in rural areas and continue trials for comprehensive

rural reform. We will ensure village-level organizations have adequate funding to
maintain normal functions.

We will promote coordinated development of regions and new urbanization. Using a
combination of transfer payments and tax policies, we will facilitate efforts to

implement major 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, integrated

development in the Yangtze River Delta, and ecological conservation and
high-quality development in the Yellow River basin. We will promote the

development of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone, and we will facilitate the
transformation and development of resource-depleted cities. We will channel

greater support to old revolutionary base areas, areas with large ethnic minority
populations, and border areas, with the central government allocating 177 billion

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