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cropland, facilities for irrigation and water conservancy, and other agricultural
infrastructure. We should invigorate the seed industry and support the

development of agricultural science, technology, and equipment.
We should refine the mechanisms for ensuring the incomes of grain growers
and for compensating major grain-producing areas. We should adopt an
all-encompassing approach to food and build a diversified food supply system.

Rural industries with local features should be fostered to create more channels for
increasing rural incomes. Our achievements in poverty alleviation should be
consolidated and expanded to prevent large-scale relapse into poverty. Rural
development initiatives should be advanced. We must meticulously and effectively

carry out work related to the extension of rural land contracts for an additional 30
years.
7. Continuing the transition to green development
Pollution prevention and control should be intensified. We should take more
robust and comprehensive measures to improve river basins, upgrade urban-rural

environmental infrastructure, and continue to implement major projects for
protecting and restoring key ecosystems. We should promote R&D for the clean
and efficient use of energy, move faster to develop a new energy system, and
increase the share of renewable energy in China’s energy mix.

We should improve the policies and financial tools for green development,
develop the circular economy, and promote efficient and intensive use of resources.
We should advance energy conservation and reduce carbon emissions and
pollution in key areas and continue working to keep our skies blue, waters clear,
and lands clean.

8. Meeting people’s basic living needs and developing social programs
We should improve the housing support system, support people in buying
their first homes or improving their housing situation, help resolve the housing

problems of new urban residents and young people, and accelerate renovations of
old residential communities and dilapidated houses.
We should work faster to build a high-quality educational system, promote
high-quality, balanced development and urban-rural integration of compulsory
education, advance public-benefit preschool education and special needs education,

and intensify efforts to develop vocational education. We should continue to
explore new ground in higher education, support the development of universities
and colleges in the central and western regions, and further integrate sports with

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