"Internet+" Boosts Poverty Alleviation, Rural Incomes Up Nearly 50% in Four Years
Recently, the first China Rural Entrepreneurship and Innovation Forum was held in Suzhou, Jiangsu. The meeting revealed that farmers' incomes have achieved new growth, rising 47.4% over the past four years, with expectations to exceed 13,000 yuan this year, and over 60 million impoverished people have been stably lifted out of poverty. In particular, rural informatization has opened up sales channels for poverty alleviation industries. The information access project has been promoted at the provincial level in 10 provinces and cities, with 74,000 Yinong Information Service Stations built and operating nationwide, digital agriculture pilot projects launched in national modern agriculture demonstration zones, and rural big data pilots and agricultural IoT regional trial demonstration projects carried out across various regions.
Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu emphasized that vigorously promoting rural entrepreneurship and innovation is of great significance to the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. It is necessary to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, seize historical opportunities, further promote rural entrepreneurship and innovation, mobilize the enthusiasm and creativity of millions of households, thousands of troops, and hundreds of millions of farmers, add new momentum to agricultural and rural development, make agriculture a promising industry, make farmers an attractive profession, and make rural areas a beautiful home where people can live and work in peace.
Establishing electronic files for farmers, providing e-commerce uplink services for agricultural products, implementing a one-person-one-code model to connect with industrial poverty alleviation, allowing every chicken and every egg from impoverished households to be traded on the platform. This is a new development that has emerged in impoverished households after the construction of Yinong Information Service Stations in every village in Hengfeng County, Jiangxi Province. The "Internet+" characteristic industry poverty alleviation has achieved phased results. According to the National Bureau of Statistics survey, in 2016, the per capita disposable income of farmers in impoverished areas was 8,452 yuan, with a growth rate 2.2 percentage points higher than the national average for rural areas.
Agricultural e-commerce pilot projects have connected impoverished villages with cities. The Ministry of Agriculture, together with the Ministry of Commerce, has deeply promoted the comprehensive demonstration of e-commerce in rural areas, implemented the e-commerce village export project, and vigorously promoted the development of e-commerce models in places such as Longnan, Gansu and Xiushan, Chongqing. "Internet+" has increased farmers' incomes. Liangyuan Fruit Industry Cooperative in Li County, Gansu, sold apples through e-commerce in 2016, driving 820 farmer households with an average annual income increase of 850 yuan per person.