Strengthening the construction of rural infrastructure will become an important work for the implementation of Rural Revitalization Strategy in the coming period. China will focus on rural logistics, water conservancy projects, energy, highways, new generation network construction and other fields to carry out major infrastructure projects.
In terms of logistics, China will achieve full coverage of logistics and distribution networks in the natural villages in the next few years. In the water conservancy, the river management and reservoir reinforcement will be carried out in the area of thousands of square kilometers of river basin, and the construction of rural gas infrastructure will be started in the energy area; all the areas with the conditions will be in the area of highway. To achieve network hardening Road, network area, we must achieve broadband coverage of urban and rural areas.
Rural infrastructure is the general name of various facilities for the development of various rural undertakings and the improvement of farmers' lives. As an important part of the rural public products, it involves the economic, social and cultural aspects of the rural areas. After years of construction, China's rural infrastructure, especially the construction of living infrastructure, has made great achievements. Data show that the popularity of rural tap water in China has increased to 79%, more than 98% villages have been hardened, "one-stop" "integrated" Internet services are also rapidly extending to the countryside, and the popularity rate of rural sanitary toilets has reached 80.4%, and 65% of the villages have dealt with the garbage.
However, rural infrastructure is still very scarce relative to cities and towns, and there are some typical problems. Zou Yunhan, an expert on the economic forecast Department of the National Information Center, believes that the poor quality of rural road construction, poor rural power grid equipment and high cost of electricity use, low rural centralized water supply, and the popularization of rural Internet are far below the urban and rural flow due to the backward planning, the narrow investment and financing channels and insufficient funds. Serious problems such as lagging facilities construction still exist. These problems directly affect the growth of rural consumption demand and restrict the upgrading and upgrading of household consumption structure.
Taking rural energy infrastructure construction as an example, Zou Yunhan said that most of the main fuel or firewood of the vast majority of farmers, 30% of them, 25% of firewood, 55% of the total, and low level of clean energy consumption, such as methane and liquefied gas. This has affected the kitchen revolution, toilet revolution and other quality of life related consumer demand. Similarly, the lack of Internet infrastructure will restrict information consumption, and the lack of cultural and entertainment facilities will lead to the lack of space for development-oriented and enjoyable consumption.
This year, the central No. 1 document put forward some measures and opinions on promoting the upgrading of rural infrastructure, including promoting the construction of "four good rural roads" with the demonstration county as the carrier, speeding up the pace of the coverage of the broadband network and the fourth generation mobile communication network in the rural areas, and speeding up the transformation and upgrading of a new round of rural power grid. In the major projects of rural infrastructure construction to be promoted in China in the next few years, there are a lot of infrastructure projects representing upgrading types. For example, energy, our country will build a distributed clean energy network in rural areas, and expand the scale of the use of clean gas fuel.
After years of overall planning for urban and rural development, the rural infrastructure, which used to restrict farmers' production and life for a long time, has changed dramatically, and the rural water circuit and gas network has been basically completed. However, the gap between urban and rural infrastructure construction is still large, and rural infrastructure still can not meet the needs of farmers' modern production and life, and it is urgent to upgrade.
Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the rural Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview that the implementation of major projects will effectively improve the level of rural infrastructure construction and promote the overall revitalization of the rural areas. At the same time, the implementation of major projects will help expand domestic demand and promote economic restructuring and development.
It is believed that rural infrastructure is one of the most important strategies for Rural Revitalization. The key to the long-term healthy development of rural areas is to retain people, especially to retain young people. In recent years, the hollowing and aging of the rural population is becoming more and more serious, and the government hopes to promote the two-way flow of the population. To change the one-way flow of population, it is necessary to achieve the "ecological livable" proposed by the 19th National Congress, rural infrastructure construction is relatively perfect in order to have a virtuous circle. On the other hand, the growth rate of rural fixed assets investment in the past few years has even been negative, and one of the potential of China's economic growth in the future is also in rural areas.
The future direction of rural infrastructure may include several levels: productive infrastructure, such as irrigation and water conservancy, living infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, buses, water, electricity, gas, new energy, business super, communication, Internet, and developmental infrastructure, such as Clinic Hospital, school, recreational and recreational facilities, ecological base Infrastructure, such as reservoirs, river courses, forest protection, water resources management, sewage disposal, air treatment and so on.
Zou Yunhan suggested that we should formulate preferential policies and take various measures to actively promote the market-oriented financing of rural public welfare infrastructure projects, take stock system, investment funds, transfer of management rights, financial discount, commitment and other ways to attract foreign investment, encourage and guide social funds to large infrastructure, environmental protection, etc. Social public welfare projects to create diversified financing channels. We should strengthen the management of existing funds, strengthen the interconnection of relevant professional construction plans, prevent waste of resources and duplicate construction.
