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category-by-category basis, and 140 million rural residents were granted
permanent urban residency over the past decade. We promoted well-ordered

development of city clusters and metropolitan areas and coordinated development
of cities of different sizes. Development of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone
was promoted.
Adhering to the principle that housing is for living in and not for speculation,

we established long-term mechanisms in the real estate market, expanded the
supply of government-subsidized housing, and developed the long-term rental
market. We kept land costs, house prices, and market expectations stable and
adopted city-specific measures to facilitate sound development of the real estate

sector.
Urban infrastructure was improved. The length of in-service urban rail transit
lines increased from just over 4,500 kilometers to close to 10,000 kilometers and the
length of urban drainage pipelines rose from 630,000 kilometers to 890,000
kilometers. A total of 167,000 old urban residential compounds were renovated,

benefiting more than 29 million households.
6. We ensured China’s food security and vigorously implemented the rural
revitalization strategy.
We improved policies to boost agriculture and benefit farmers, continuously

gave priority to agricultural production, and moved faster to modernize the
agricultural sector and rural areas.
We worked to enhance overall agricultural production capacity. We stabilized
and increased grain acreage, expanded the production of soybeans and other
oil-yielding crops, improved the composition and geographic distribution of

agricultural production, and increased per unit crop yield and the quality of
grains.
We refined policies to support grain production, kept subsidies for grain

growers stable, and set minimum purchase prices for rice and wheat at reasonable
levels. Rewards for major grain-producing counties were increased and the
policy-based agricultural insurance system was improved.
We strengthened the protection of cropland, launched an initiative to protect
chernozem soils, improved water conservancy infrastructure, and increased the

area of high-standard cropland by 30.4 million hectares.
We developed agricultural belts for ensuring national food security. We
accelerated the pace of innovation in seed technology and agricultural machinery

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