Ambassador Ma Xinmin Publishes Article Titled A People with Enough Food Feels Secure, A Country with Strong Agriculture Keeps Stable on Sudan Vision

　   2019年11月5日，驻苏丹大使马新民在《苏丹视野报》“中国聚焦”专栏发表题为《国无农不稳，民无粮不安》的署名文章。全文如下：

On November 6th, Chinese Ambassador to Sudan Ma Xinmin publishes an signature article titled A People with Enough Food Feels Secure, A Country with Strong Agriculture Keeps Stable for the China Focus Column on Sudan Vision. The full text is as follows:

　　新中国成立70年取得了举世瞩目的历史性成就，其中一条重要成功经验就是正确解决了农业问题。“民之大事在农。”中国用占世界9%的耕地养活了全球20%的人口，成功解决了13亿人口的吃饭问题，并使超过7.5亿的农村人口脱贫，把一个农村人口占比高达89.4%的贫穷落后的农业国发展为世界第二大经济体。中国农业成就的关键何在？

Over the past 70 years since 1949, historic progresses have been made in China, winning heartfelt recognition all over the world. Among all the factors for the success, focusing on agriculture stands far out, as the Chinese believe "Agriculture is a matter of prime importance for the people". China, with her 7% only of the world's farmland, successfully provided for 1.3 billion people and miraculously lifted more than 0.75 billion rural inhabitants out of poverty, transforming herself from an formerly impoverished country with 89.4% rural population into the world's second largest economy. What then are the keys to China's agricultural success?

　　一是始终坚持农业的基础地位。重农固本，是安民之基。中国政府始终把农业作为国民经济的基础，把农业发展作为治国安邦的首要任务和关乎国计民生的根本问题。中国国家主席习近平说：“任何时候都不能忽视农业、忘记农民、漠视农村。”中央连年出台1号文件，聚焦农业发展和农民增收问题，实施强农惠农富农政策，强化对农业农村农民“多予少取放活”的政策导向，其中取消农业税、牧业税和特产税，终结了延续2600多年的“皇粮国税”，并建立农业支持保护制度，国家与农民关系实现了由取到予的历史性转变。

The first key, is China's attachment of great importance to agriculture. Agriculture is always regarded as a basis for national stability and for people's security in China. In the Chinese's eyes, agriculture is the cornerstone of the national economy and developing agriculture is the first and foremost important thing for state governance and for people's welfares. As is stressed by the Chinese President Xi Jinping, "We should neither neglect, forget or ignore agriculture, farmers or the rural areas at any time." With the focus placed on agricultural development, the yearly No.1 Documents Issued By The Central Government, for 16 consecutive years, have been solely on agriculture, rolling out policies toward boosting agriculture and bringing benefits to farmers. Agricultural taxes, husbandry taxes, specialties taxes, and even land rents, practices with worldwide popularity and millennium's history, are now exempted in China, reflecting the government's guideline on farmers from taking to giving.

　　二是始终坚持保障农民的主体地位和根本利益。中国政府充分发挥农民的主体作用，尊重农民意愿和首创精神，维护和发展农民的根本利益。在经济上保证农民的物质利益，巩固和完善农村基本经营制度，坚持家庭经营基础性地位，农民人均可支配收入提高了近40倍；坚持改善农村生活条件，全国农村通路、通电、通电话、通宽带占比均超过90%，新型农村合作医疗、农村社会养老保险、农村义务教育实现全覆盖。在政治上尊重农民的民主权利，建立自治、法治、德治相结合的乡村治理体系，严肃查处侵犯农民利益的“微腐败”。

The second key, is China's commitment to the farmers' subjective and active roles and to the safeguarding of their fundamental interests. The Chinese government takes the people as the owner of the country, respects their wills and gives full play to their initiatives, trying her best to safeguard and enhance their interests. Economically, the Chinese government consolidated and improved the basic management system in rural areas and adheres to the basic status of family-as-a-unit-to-contract-land-from-the-government-and-manage-for/by-themselves system (Family Contracting System), making the per-capita rural disposable incomes see a near 40-fold growth. Meanwhile, the Chinese government keeps insistence on rural living standards improvement and 90+% of the rural areas across the country now gets access to paved roads, stable electricity, modern telecommunications and broad-banded networks. New Rural Cooperative Medical Care, Social Insurance for Rural Residents and Compulsory Education are now available in all rural areas. Politically, the Chinese government respects the rights of the farmers and has established a rural governance combining self-governance, rule of law, and rule of virtue, investigating and punishing Micro Corruption (the Slightest misdemeanors) to protect the farmers' rights.