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gas in step with procurement costs. We will move steadily forward with the
market-oriented reform of competitive business segments in rail and other

industries. We will advance reform in the electricity sector, develop a unified
national electricity market, work faster to develop electricity spot markets, and
improve market-based pricing mechanisms for trans-provincial and trans-regional
electricity transmission. We will proceed with market-oriented pricing reform for
on-grid electricity generated from new energy and improve pricing mechanisms

for heat supply.
We will optimize oversight and management of enterprises engaged in natural
monopoly business. We will conduct cost oversight and auditing of
centrally-managed or trans-provincial water projects and review and check their

charges, and we will advance comprehensive price reform of water used in
agriculture. We will further reform trade associations and chambers of commerce,
research systems for categorized supervision over them, and facilitate their healthy
and well-regulated development.
5. Continuing to prioritize the development of agriculture and rural areas and

promoting rural revitalization across the board
We will make all-out efforts to ensure food security, formulate plans for
working faster to build up China’s strength in agriculture, consolidate and expand
our poverty alleviation achievements, and make the countryside a comfortable

place for people to live and work.
1) We will reinforce the foundations for food security on all fronts.
We will see to it that both Party committees and governments assume the
responsibilities of ensuring food security and protecting cultivated land, and we
will assess how such responsibilities are fulfilled. We will improve supporting
policies for major grain producing regions, major purchasing regions, and regions

where production and demands are in equilibrium, encouraging producing
regions to consolidate and raise production capacity, regions with balanced
production and consumption to tap into their potential for greater production
capacity, and purchasing regions to maintain or raise their degree of

self-sufficiency. We will initiate a new round of efforts to increase national grain
output by 50 million metric tons. We will enhance our capacity for grain
production, purchase, storage, processing, and sale. We will keep the total grain
acreage and yield stable, strictly protect farmland, draw up an implementation
plan to gradually turn all permanent basic cropland into high-standard cropland,

properly implement the national initiative for black soil protection, and speed up
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