Zhu Zhigang: 339.7 billion yuan will be allocated to support agriculture in this year's budget

Introduction: "this year's budget support for agriculture reached 339.7 billion yuan, an increase of 14.2% over the previous year, accounting for 21.4% of the total expenditure increase." In other words, we have used more than one fifth of the increase in total expenditure this year in rural areas " Yesterday, Zhu Zhigang, Vice Minister of finance, said Yesterday afternoon, the fourth session of the 10th National People's Congress held a press conference Yin Chengjie, Vice Minister of the Ministry of agriculture, Du Ying, deputy director of the national development and Reform Commission, and Zhu Zhigang, Vice Minister of the Ministry of finance, answered questions from Chinese and foreign journalists about building a new socialist countryside Yin Chengjie, Vice Minister of the Ministry of agriculture, introduced to reporters that "development of production, affluence of life, civilization of the countryside, neat appearance of the village and democratic management" are the general requirements of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the construction of a new socialist countryside, and also the main tasks of the "three rural" work in the next period According to Zhu Zhigang, 800 million farmers will benefit 125 billion yuan from the total cancellation of agricultural tax, 140 yuan per capita Therefore, the central government has increased the transfer payment for local governments by 78.2 billion yuan This year, in 13 major grain producing areas, the direct grain subsidy fund reached 50% of the grain risk fund, an increase of 1 billion yuan over the previous year At the same time, the central government will also adjust the awards for major grain producing counties from 5.5 billion yuan last year to 8.5 billion yuan this year During the 11th Five Year Plan period, the investment preparation for establishing the rural compulsory education fund guarantee mechanism was increased by 218.2 billion yuan This year, it was the first one to exempt the tuition and miscellaneous fees in the western primary and secondary schools Next year, it will fully implement compulsory education in the rural areas of the country and exempt the tuition and miscellaneous fees In order to solve the problem of farmers' difficulty in seeing a doctor, the central government's subsidy for rural cooperative medical care reached 4.7 billion yuan, more than seven times that of last year The central government also wants to vigorously develop and consolidate rural cooperative medical care This year, the pilot project of cooperative medical care will cover 40% of rural counties in China, and strive to reach 60% next year In 2008, the rural cooperative medical care system will be fully implemented In order to ensure the use of funds in place, Zhu Zhigang said that when arranging projects, the Ministry of Finance and the national development and Reform Commission adopted open and transparent procedures, strictly carried out expert argumentation, strictly reviewed the scale, purpose and direction of use of funds, and many projects should be publicly announced on the Internet "In fact, financial funds are the funds of all taxpayers and represent the public interests of the whole country To infringe and misappropriate financial funds is to infringe the public interests of the whole country We have always advocated strict measures to stop such acts " Zhu Zhigang said For the projects supporting agricultural funds determined by the development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of agriculture, the Ministry of science and technology, the Ministry of education, the Ministry of health and other departments, the system of centralized payment by the state treasury shall be adopted, and the funds shall be directly paid to the user, and strict supervision shall be carried out At the same time, the tracking and efficiency system of financial funds has been established, and decisive measures will be taken to correct the problems found Cheng Yongsheng, a professor from Anhui University of science and technology and a deputy of the National People's Congress from Anhui Province, a major grain producer, told the first financial daily that rural construction was also regarded as an important strategy in Anhui's 11th five year plan "But now the way of construction is different from the past In the past, rural construction was based on rural areas, and now it is the driving role of industrial cities He proposed to use the third industry as the driving force Industry and secondary industry drive the primary industry " Cheng Yongsheng said that the strategic direction of building a new socialist countryside is correct, and the financial investment has given strong financial support to the new rural construction, but it will take time to achieve these goals "Anhui, or the whole country, should formulate specific measures according to the current situation and local conditions." Hu Meiling, a representative of the National People's Congress and a famous Yu opera performing artist, also explained her views on the construction of a new socialist countryside from the perspective of culture: "we can't ignore the cultural life of farmers I hope that the country can increase some investment in the construction of rural culture, such as popularizing TV lines and the Internet in the countryside as soon as possible, so that remote places can also see TV programs The state of Tao.