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We should strengthen strategic alignment with Belt and Road partner
countries and better coordinate and manage cooperation programs. We

should enhance connectivity in terms of both infrastructure and rules and
standards and foster closer bonds with the people in these countries. We need
to refine the multidimensional network connecting partner countries and

advance both major signature projects and ―small and beautiful‖ public
wellbeing projects. Rail freight transportation between China and Europe and
between China and other parts of Asia should be improved, and construction

on the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor should pick up speed.
We should deepen practical cooperation in the areas of trade, investment,
industrial development, and people-to-people exchanges and launch new

cooperation initiatives across fields such as green development, AI, the digital
economy, health, tourism, and agriculture. We should improve the
investment and financing systems to make them more diversified, sustainable,

and risk-resilient. Our overseas interests should also be better protected.

VIII. Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization and

Advancing All-Around Rural Revitalization

Agricultural and rural modernization has a major bearing on Chinese

modernization as a whole and the outcomes it delivers. We must give top
priority to the issues related to agriculture, rural areas, and rural residents.
We need to promote integrated urban-rural development, continue to
consolidate and expand our achievements in poverty alleviation, basically

ensure modern living conditions in rural areas, and secure faster progress in
building up China’s strength in agriculture.

25. Enhancing the overall production capacity, quality, and performance of
agriculture
We should emphasize both output and production capacity, both
agricultural production and ecological conservation, and both output

expansion and income growth and coordinate efforts to make agriculture
more technology-driven, eco-friendly, quality-focused, and brand-oriented,
thereby turning it into a modern pillar sector. We should step up efforts to

advance a new round of initiatives for increasing grain production capacity
by 50 million metric tons and improve our capacity for ensuring the supply of
grain and other major agricultural products.

To ensure that the total area of China’s arable land stays above the

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