The Great Significance and Original Contributions of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Important Expositions on the Work Concerning Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies concerning the work on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. His relevant important speeches, reports, directives, and articles have scientifically answered a series of major theoretical and practical questions in this work, covering all aspects of the rural economy, politics, culture, society, ecological civilization, and Party building. These include both a worldview and a methodology, both theoretical summaries and work guidance, and both strategic deployments and tactical arrangements. General Secretary Xi Jinping

党的十八大以来，习近平总书记围绕“三农”工作提出了一系列新理念、新思想和新战略，相关重要讲话、报告、指示和文章等科学回答了“三农”工作的一系列重大理论和实践问题，涵盖农村经济、政治、文化、社会、生态文明和党的建设方方面面，既有世界观也有方法论，既有理论总结也有工作指导，既有战略部署也有战术安排。习近平总书记始终高度关注农业、关心农村、关爱农民，不断推进“三农”工作理论创新、实践创新、制度创新。在党的二十大报告中，习近平总书记明确强调新时代新征程推进“三农”工作的战略要求是“全面推进乡村振兴”，并将“加快建设农业强国”目标任务提升至前所未有的新高度。习近平总书记关于“三农”工作的重要论述是做好新时代“三农”工作的行动纲领和根本遵循，也为中国式农业农村现代化擘画出更加清晰明确的行动路线、建设蓝图和发展前景。

The Great Significance of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Important Discourse on the Work Concerning “Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers”

习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述的重大意义

General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” centrally reflects his comprehensive understanding, profound thinking, rational judgment, and scientific answers regarding the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” since the 18th National Congress of the CPC. Since 2012, General Secretary Xi Jinping has mapped out the overall plan and steered the

习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述集中反映了党的十八大以来习近平总书记对“三农”工作的全面认识、深邃思考、理性判断与科学回答。自2012年以来，习近平总书记围绕“三农”事业谋篇布局、把舵定向，推动农业农村发展取得历史性成就、发生历史性变革。

General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” constitute a scientific response to a series of major theoretical and practical issues in the reform and development of rural areas in the New Era.

习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述是对新时代农村改革发展的一系列重大理论和实践问题的科学回应。

First, they forcefully respond to major theoretical questions such as “why build the countryside” and “what kind of countryside to build,” providing important theoretical guidance for work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era. Making a response that unites conformity with the laws of objective reality and conformity with the purposes of the subject to major theoretical questions such as “why build the countryside” and “what kind of countryside to build” is a necessary prerequisite for the smooth development of work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era. General Secretary Xi Jinping, based on the Party’s mission and tasks, coordinating the “two overall situations” [1]1 The “Central Conference on Rural Work” (中央农村工作会议) is a high-level meeting convened by the CPC Central Committee to set policy directions for agriculture, rural areas, and farmers; the 2017 conference was held in December of that year., scientifically summarizing our Party’s valuable experience in work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” has conducted in-depth analysis and provided scientific answers to related issues. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: “If the agricultural foundation is solid, the countryside is harmonious and stable, and the peasants live and work in peace and contentment, the entire overall situation will be guaranteed, and all work will be relatively proactive.” “Whether agriculture is strong, whether the countryside is beautiful, and whether peasants are prosperous determines the sense of gain and happiness of hundreds of millions of peasants, and determines the quality of our country’s moderately prosperous society in all respects and the quality of socialist modernization.” General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” elucidate the logical connection between work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” and the overall work of the Party, and demonstrate the key positioning and significant impact of the cause of “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” within the overall situation of socialist modernization. At the same time, on the basis of the general requirements for building a new socialist countryside of “developing production, well-off life, civilized rural customs, clean and tidy village appearance, and democratic management,” General Secretary Xi Jinping has further developed the general requirements of the rural revitalization strategy into “thriving industries, pleasant living environments, civilized rural customs, effective governance, and prosperous life.” This not only clarifies the direction and path of the Party’s rural work in the new stage of development, but also displays the development vision and ideal goals. At the theoretical level, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” further broaden the theoretical horizon and clarify the logical rationale of the Party’s rural work in the New Era, providing important theoretical guidance for work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era.

其一，有力回应了“为什么建设农村”“建设什么样的农村”等重大理论问题，为新时代“三农”工作提供了重要理论指引。对“为什么建设农村”“建设什么样的农村”等重大理论问题作出合规律性与合目的性相统一的回应，是新时代“三农”工作顺利开展的必要前提。习近平总书记立足党的使命任务，统筹“两个大局”，科学总结我们党关于“三农”工作的宝贵经验，对相关问题进行了深入剖析、给出了科学解答。习近平总书记指出：“农业基础稳固，农村和谐稳定，农民安居乐业，整个大局就有保障，各项工作都会比较主动。” “农业强不强、农村美不美、农民富不富，决定着亿万农民的获得感和幸福感，决定着我国全面小康社会的成色和社会主义现代化的质量。”习近平总书记关于“三农”工作的重要论述阐明了“三农”工作同党的工作整体间的逻辑关联，论证了“三农”事业在社会主义现代化建设全局中的关键定位与重大影响。与此同时，在建设社会主义新农村“生产发展、生活宽裕、乡风文明、村容整洁、管理民主”总要求的基础上，习近平总书记将乡村振兴战略的总要求进一步发展为“产业兴旺、生态宜居、乡风文明、治理有效、生活富裕”，不仅明确了新发展阶段党的农村工作发力方向及推进路径，亦展陈了发展愿景与理想目标。在理论层面，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述进一步打开了新时代党的农村工作的理论视野、廓清逻辑理路，为新时代“三农”工作提供了重要理论指引。

Second, they scientifically answer major practical questions such as “how to build the countryside,” providing important practical guidance for work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era. The essence of all theoretical questions is practical questions. Our country is in a historical stage of rapid rural morphological evolution, and rural society is also in a period of profound change and adjustment. How to build the countryside is an important practical task placed before our Party. General Secretary Xi Jinping not only discusses in his expositions the key and difficult issues of rural development and construction one by one, but also provides highly operable action plans and concrete measures suitable for implementation. In terms of building grassroots Party organizations, General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: “We must organically integrate poverty alleviation and development with grassroots organization building, do a good job of building supporting village-level organizations with the village Party organization as the core, and build grassroots Party organizations into strong leadership cores that lead fellow villagers out of poverty and towards prosperity and maintain rural stability.” In terms of agricultural production, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposes: “We must strictly guard the red line of arable land, promote the accelerated implementation of the strategy of storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology, protect and improve comprehensive grain production capacity, and prevent a major decline in grain production.” In terms of industrial development, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes that in developing rural industries, “where conditions permit, we must expand the space for industrial value addition and efficiency improvement through the entire industrial chain, creating more opportunities for employment and income increase.” At the practical level, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” further delineate the practical paths and action measures for rural work in the New Era, providing important practical guidance for work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era.

其二，科学解答了“怎样建设农村”等重大实践问题，为新时代“三农”工作提供了重要实践指导。一切理论问题的本质都是实践问题。我国正处于农村形态快速演变的历史阶段，农村社会亦处于深刻变化和调整时期，怎样建设农村是摆在我们党面前的一项重要实践课题。习近平总书记不仅在论述中一一论及农村发展建设的各项重点、难点问题，且给出了操作性极强的行动方案与宜落实的具体措施。在基层党组织建设方面，习近平总书记指出：“要把扶贫开发同基层组织建设有机结合起来，抓好以村党组织为核心的村级组织配套建设，把基层党组织建设成为带领乡亲们脱贫致富、维护农村稳定的坚强领导核心。”在农业生产方面，习近平总书记提出：“要严守耕地红线，推动藏粮于地、藏粮于技战略加快落地，保护和提高粮食综合生产能力，防止粮食生产出现大的滑坡。”在产业发展方面，习近平总书记强调，发展乡村产业，“有条件的要通过全产业链拓展产业增值增效空间，创造更多就业增收机会”。在实践层面，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述进一步厘定了新时代农村工作的实践路径和行动举措，为新时代“三农”工作提供了重要实践指导。

General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” provide the general program, general basis, and general guidance for doing a good job in work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era. First, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” constitute the action program for doing a good job in work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era, pointing out the general direction and general goals for work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era. Work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” concerns the national economy, people’s livelihood, and the overall stability of the economy and society; concerns the solidity of the Party’s ruling foundation; and concerns the long-term development of the socialist modernization path. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping, starting from the overall situation of the cause of the Party and the state, has made a series of detailed strategic plans for work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers.” The 18th National Congress of the CPC called on the people of the whole country to “deeply advance the construction of a new countryside and poverty alleviation and development”; on this basis, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed at the 19th National Congress of the CPC to “resolutely win the battle against poverty,” and for the first time proposed the “rural revitalization strategy”; after achieving a comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed at the 20th National Congress of the CPC to “comprehensively promote rural revitalization” and “accelerate the building of an agricultural power,” carrying forward the past and opening up the future in theoretical development, and advancing layer by layer in practical logic. At the 2022 Central Rural Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping closely linked agricultural and rural modernization with Chinese-path modernization, proposing to “advance agricultural modernization and rural modernization as an integrated whole.” This fully demonstrates the continuity and succession of the goals and tasks of the Party and the state in work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” as well as the rigor and accuracy of the strategic planning for work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers.” General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” taking as their focus the realization of the “Two Centenary Goals” [2]2 The phrase “forming one continuous line” (一脉相承) is a Chinese four-character idiom emphasizing the unbroken transmission of a tradition or doctrine. and the aspiration of hundreds of millions of peasants for a better life, grasp the overall progress of work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” from a comprehensive height and breadth, providing an important guarantee for the smooth transition of work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” across different stages of development.

习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述为做好新时代“三农”工作提供了总纲领、总依据和总遵循。其一，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述是做好新时代“三农”工作的行动纲领，为新时代“三农”工作指明了总方向和总目标。“三农”工作关乎国计民生和经济社会全局稳定，关乎党的执政根基稳固，关乎社会主义现代化道路的长远发展。党的十八大以来，习近平总书记从党和国家事业发展的全局出发，对“三农”工作作出了一系列详细的战略规划。党的十八大号召全国人民“深入推进新农村建设和扶贫开发”；在此基础上，习近平总书记在党的十九大上提出“坚决打赢脱贫攻坚战”，并首次提出“乡村振兴战略”；在脱贫攻坚战取得全面胜利后，习近平总书记在党的二十大上提出“全面推进乡村振兴”和“加快建设农业强国”，在理论发展上承前启后，在实践逻辑上层层递进。在2022年中央农村工作会议上，习近平总书记将农业农村现代化与中国式现代化紧密衔接，提出“一体推进农业现代化和农村现代化”。这充分展现了党和国家“三农”工作目标任务的承接性、连续性和“三农”工作战略规划的严谨性、准确性。习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述以实现“两个一百年”奋斗目标和亿万农民群众对美好生活的向往为着眼点，从全局高度和全盘广度把握“三农”工作的整体进度，为不同发展阶段“三农”工作的平稳过渡提供了重要保障。

Third, Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” serve as the fundamental guidance for carrying out such work in the New Era, and they clarify the overall requirements and general policy for deeply implementing the rural revitalization strategy. At a time when the rural social structure is undergoing profound changes, China has consistently upheld the leadership role of rural grassroots Party organizations, and work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” has advanced steadily and continuously. Xi Jinping’s important expositions on this work provide a systematic interpretation and comprehensive elaboration of rural work. In the report to the 19th National Congress of the CPC, Xi Jinping proposed implementing the rural revitalization strategy, stating that “priority should be given to the development of agriculture and rural areas, in accordance with the general requirements of thriving businesses, pleasant living environments, social etiquette and civility, effective governance, and prosperity for all.” [3]3 “Four beams and eight pillars” (四梁八柱) is a Chinese architectural metaphor for a basic framework or main structure, used here to describe the core components of the theoretical system. At the Central Conference on Work Concerning Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers in 2020, Xi Jinping emphasized that to promote rural revitalization with greater force, it is necessary to “implement the policy of giving priority to the development of agriculture and rural areas.” Guided by Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” the work approach centered on “thriving businesses as the focus, pleasant living environments as the key, social etiquette and civility as the guarantee, effective governance as the foundation, and prosperity for all as the fundamental goal,” along with the general policy of giving priority to the development of agriculture and rural areas, has been consistently implemented and carried out, establishing the overall tone and main theme for work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era.

其三，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述是做好新时代“三农”工作的根本遵循，为深入实施乡村振兴战略点明了总要求和总方针。在农村社会结构发生深刻变动的当下，我国始终坚持农村基层党组织的领导地位，“三农”工作持续稳步推进。习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述对农村工作进行了系统解读和全面阐发。在党的十九大报告中，习近平总书记提出，实施乡村振兴战略，“要坚持农业农村优先发展，按照产业兴旺、生态宜居、乡风文明、治理有效、生活富裕的总要求”。在2020年的中央农村工作会议上，习近平总书记强调：以更大力度推动乡村振兴，要“落实农业农村优先发展的方针”。在习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述的指引下，“以产业兴旺为重点、生态宜居为关键、乡风文明为保障、治理有效为基础、生活富裕为根本”的工作思路和农业农村优先发展的总方针得到了一以贯之的贯彻与落实，为新时代“三农”工作奠定了总基调、总旋律。

Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” represent the latest achievement in the Party’s theoretical innovation regarding such work and constitute a further enrichment and development of the Party’s theory on rural work in the New Era.

习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述是党的“三农”工作理论创新的最新成果，是对新时代党的农村工作理论的进一步丰富和发展。

First, Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” are the latest achievement in the Party’s theoretical innovation regarding such work, accumulating important experience for theoretical innovation in this field. To begin with, Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” are the latest achievement in our Party’s theoretical innovation regarding such work. These expositions were formed by Xi Jinping, based on the Party’s conditions, national conditions, rural conditions, and agricultural conditions in the New Era, in the great exploration of answering how to solve the problems concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” advance work in this area, and develop the cause of “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era. Furthermore, Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” have guided theoretical innovation. Theoretical innovation is a long and complex systematic project. Each combination of theory and practice creates the possibility for the birth of new theories. While providing important guidance for work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” Xi Jinping’s important expositions have also objectively facilitated the emergence of a batch of original theoretical achievements, such as the theory on poverty alleviation with Chinese characteristics. As practice deepens, new theoretical achievements will in turn combine with the reality of work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” thereby promoting the continuous innovation of theories on such work.

其一，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述是党的“三农”工作理论创新的最新成果，为“三农”工作理论创新积累了重要经验。首先，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述是我们党“三农”工作理论创新的最新成果。习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述是习近平总书记立足于新时代党情、国情、乡情和农情，在回答新时代如何解决“三农”问题、推进“三农”工作和发展“三农”事业的伟大探索中形成的。其次，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作的重要论述指引了理论创新。理论创新是漫长、复杂的系统性工程。理论与实践的每一次结合，都在为新理论的诞生创造可能。习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述在为“三农”工作提供重要指引的同时，也在客观上促成了中国特色反贫困理论等一批原创性理论成果的产生。随着实践的深入，新的理论成果又会与“三农”工作现实相结合，进而推动“三农”工作理论的持续创新。

Second, Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” have further enriched and developed the Party’s theory on rural work in the New Era. In terms of origin, both Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” and the Party’s theory on rural work are rooted in the practice of the Party’s work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era. In terms of content, Xi Jinping’s important expositions cover various aspects of work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” including “historical orientation and strategic positioning, development goals and key tasks, and institutional framework and policy system,” while the Party’s theory on rural work covers the entirety of work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” under the Party’s comprehensive leadership. The relationship between the two is one of part to whole, and of the contained to the container. In terms of form of expression, Xi Jinping’s important expositions, as a scientific, systematic, and original theoretical system, have enriched and developed the major policies of our Party for guiding and advancing work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” promoting the development of the Party’s theory on rural work in the New Era into a richer theoretical form. Xi Jinping’s attention to work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” extends deep into rural society, covering issues such as the coverage of the new rural cooperative medical system, the improvement of rural living environments, the protection and utilization of arable land resources, the treatment of livestock and poultry breeding waste, the remediation and restoration of soil pollution, and the construction of internet infrastructure.

其二，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述进一步丰富和发展了新时代党的农村工作理论。从来源上看，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述同党的农村工作理论均是根植于新时代党的“三农”工作实践之中。从内容上看，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述涵盖“三农”工作的“历史方位和战略定位、发展目标和重点任务、制度框架和政策体系”等各方面，党的农村工作理论则覆盖了党全面领导下的“三农”工作整体，二者是局部与全局、被包含与包含的关系。从表现形式上看，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述以科学性、系统性、独创性的理论体系，丰富和发展了我们党指导推进“三农”工作的大政方针，推动新时代党的农村工作理论发展出更为丰富的理论样态。习近平总书记对“三农”工作的关注深入乡村社会深处，涉及新型农村合作医疗覆盖、农村人居环境的整治、耕地资源的保护与利用、畜禽养殖废弃物处理、土壤污染治理修复及互联网建设等各类问题。

The Original Contributions of Xi Jinping’s Important Expositions on Work Concerning “Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers”

习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述的原创性贡献

Since the beginning of the New Era, Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” have formed a grand system with distinct contemporary characteristics and profound theoretical depth, making significant original contributions to the deepening of practice and theoretical innovation in this field. These contributions are not only reflected in the promotion of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, but also in the inheritance and development of the CPC’s line on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” as well as the enrichment and deepening of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

新时代以来，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述形成了具有鲜明时代特色和厚重理论深度的宏大体系，对“三农”实践深入和“三农”理论创新具有重大原创性贡献，不仅体现在对马克思主义中国化时代化的推动，也体现在对中国共产党“三农”工作路线的继承、发展及对习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的丰富、深化等方面。

Xi Jinping’s important expositions on work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” are the product of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, and represent the latest theoretical achievement of combining Marxist theory on “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” with the concrete realities of contemporary China.

习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述是马克思主义中国化时代化的产物，是马克思主义“三农”理论同当代中国具体实际相结合的最新理论成果。

First, they have achieved a deep integration of Marxist anti-poverty theory with the actual development of “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in contemporary China. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, Xi Jinping has guided China’s practice of poverty alleviation

一是实现了马克思主义反贫困理论同当代中国“三农”发展实际的深度融合。党的十八大以来，习近平总书记以马克思主义反贫困理论指导中国的脱贫攻坚实践。在党的十八届二中全会上，习近平总书记明确指出：“强调贫穷不是社会主义，如果贫困地区长期贫困，面貌长期得不到改变，群众生活水平长期得不到明显提高，那就没有体现我国社会主义制度的优越性，那也不是社会主义”。2013年11月，在湖南省花垣县十八洞村，习近平总书记首次提出“精准扶贫”重要理念。党的十九大把精准脱贫作为三大攻坚战之一进行全面部署，锚定全面建成小康社会目标，聚力攻克深度贫困堡垒，决战决胜脱贫攻坚。在中国共产党的正确领导下，中国圆满达成了第一个百年奋斗目标，推动农业农村发展取得历史性成就、发生历史性变革，形成了中国特色反贫困理论。脱贫攻坚战的全面胜利和小康社会的全面建成，不仅表明了当代中国的发展实践同马克思主义理论的高度契合，更充分验证了习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述的真理性和先进性。

Second, it has opened up a new realm for the Marxist theory on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. The Marxist theory on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers encompasses Marx and Engels’ discussions on the root causes of peasant poverty under capitalist production, the developmental positioning of agriculture, and the expropriation of peasants’ land, as well as the explorations by Soviet leaders such as Lenin and Stalin into the path of agricultural collectivization. The rural construction led by the Communist Party of China is neither a copy of Western development models, a reproduction of traditional Chinese villages, nor a mechanical restoration of the vision of a communist society; rather, it is deeply rooted in China’s actual conditions. In advancing the integration of urban and rural development, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “We must proceed from our national conditions, from the reality of China’s unbalanced and uncoordinated urban-rural development and its dual structure, and from our natural endowments, historical and cultural traditions, and institutional systems. We must both follow universal laws and avoid sticking to old ways; we must both draw on international advanced experience and avoid copying it mechanically.” In implementing the rural revitalization strategy, General Secretary Xi Jinping noted: “In a large country like ours, with a population of nearly 1.4 billion, achieving rural revitalization is an unprecedented and unparalleled great undertaking. There is no ready-made experience to copy. How to take the path of rural revitalization in China can only be explored by ourselves.” General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers places the Marxist theory on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers within a spatiotemporal framework unprecedented in socialist development, proposing new ideas and new approaches for conducting work on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers in a large socialist country with a vast population, profound historical heritage, and immense development potential, thereby opening up a new realm for the Marxist theory on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers.

二是开辟了马克思主义“三农”理论新境界。马克思主义“三农”理论包括马克思、恩格斯对资本主义生产下农民贫困的根源、农业的发展定位及农民土地的被剥夺等基本问题的探讨，以及列宁、斯大林等苏联领导人对农业集体化道路的探索。中国共产党领导下的乡村建设，并不是对西方发展模式的照搬、对中国传统乡村的复刻或是对共产主义社会构想的机械还原，而是深深扎根于中国的现实土壤。在推进城乡发展一体化方面，习近平总书记指出：“要坚持从国情出发，从我国城乡发展不平衡不协调和二元结构的现实出发，从我国的自然禀赋、历史文化传统、制度体制出发，既要遵循普遍规律、又不能墨守成规，既要借鉴国际先进经验、又不能照抄照搬。”在实施乡村振兴战略方面，习近平总书记指出：“在我们这样一个拥有近十四亿人口的大国，实现乡村振兴是前无古人、后无来者的伟大创举，没有现成的、可照抄照搬的经验。我国乡村振兴道路怎么走，只能靠我们自己去探索。”习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述，将马克思主义“三农”理论置于社会主义发展前所未至的时空象限之中，提出在一个人口规模庞大、历史底蕴深厚、发展潜力巨大的社会主义大国开展“三农”工作的新思路和新方案，开辟了马克思主义“三农”理论新境界。

General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourse on work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers is a highly condensed and precise summary of the Communist Party of China’s experience and laws in work on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, and it is also an inheritance and development of the Party’s fine traditions in this field.

习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述是对中国共产党的“三农”工作经验、规律的高度凝练和精确总结，也是对中国共产党“三农”工作优良传统的继承与发展。

First, they constitute a systematic summation, refinement, and elevation of the Party’s experience in the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers.” Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has fully recognized the importance of uniting and mobilizing the peasant masses. Looking back at the history of the CPC’s leadership over the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” each generation of the Party’s central collective leadership has attached great importance to this work. Xi Jinping’s important expositions on the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” have developed on the basis of targeted refinement and systematic summation of the Party’s experience in this field, representing a historical inheritance of the Party’s glorious traditions in this work. At the Central Conference on Rural Work in 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out: “Implementing the rural revitalization strategy is the inheritance and development of a series of our Party’s policies and guidelines for the work concerning ‘agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,’ and is the overall lever for doing a good job in this work as socialism with Chinese characteristics enters a New Era.” [1]1 The “Central Conference on Rural Work” (中央农村工作会议) is a high-level meeting convened by the CPC Central Committee to set policy directions for agriculture, rural areas, and farmers; the 2017 conference was held in December of that year. Xi Jinping’s important expositions on the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” vividly reflect the consistent theoretical character of Marxism, namely, “forming one continuous line, focusing on drawing wisdom and essence from history, and inheriting and carrying forward the Party’s fine traditions, major principles, and basic experience in rural work.” [2]2 The phrase “forming one continuous line” (一脉相承) is a Chinese four-character idiom emphasizing the unbroken transmission of a tradition or doctrine. Integrating the Party’s experience in the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” Xi Jinping’s important expositions constitute a scientific system that unifies theory and practice, matches comprehensiveness and professionalism, and integrates historicity and reality in relation to this work. They are “the culmination of the Party’s basic experience in rural work” and have groundbreaking significance.

一是对党的“三农”工作经验的系统性总结、提炼和升华。自成立之日起，中国共产党就充分意识到团结和发动农民群众的重要性。纵观中国共产党领导“三农”工作的历史，中国共产党历代中央领导集体都对“三农”工作予以高度重视。习近平总书记关于“三农”工作的重要论述是在对党的“三农”工作经验进行针对性提炼和系统性总结的基础上发展而来，是对党的“三农”工作光荣传统的历史传承。在2017年的中央农村工作会议上，习近平总书记明确指出：“实施乡村振兴战略，是我们党‘三农’工作一系列方针政策的继承和发展，是中国特色社会主义进入新时代做好‘三农’工作的总抓手”。习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述生动反映出马克思主义一以贯之的理论品格，即“一脉相承，注重从历史中汲取智慧精华，继承和发扬党的农村工作优良传统、重大原则、基本经验”。结合中国共产党“三农”工作经验，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述是针对“三农”工作形成的理论性与实践性相一致、全面性与专业性相匹配、历史性与现实性相统一的科学体系，是“党的农村工作基本经验的集大成”，具有开创性意义。

Second, they integrate the advanced experience of rural work in the New Era into the traditions of the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers.” Since the New Era, the world situation has become increasingly turbulent, unilateralism has continued to spread, and trade protectionism and de-globalization have intensified. Against this backdrop, China’s rural reform has entered a deep-water zone, and pressures regarding the transformation of agricultural industrialization, the enhancement of rural governance effectiveness, and the increase of farmers’ incomes will persist for the current period and into the future. Amid changes unseen in a century, the Party Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, has led the entire Party and people of all ethnic groups in comprehensively advancing reforms in the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” achieving a series of historic accomplishments in agricultural production, rural construction, and farmer development, and forming a Chinese solution for developing the cause of “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers.” On the one hand, from the perspective of value pursuit, Xi Jinping’s important expositions on the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” fully inherit the Party’s glorious traditions in this work, while continuously summarizing laws from practice, endowing them with new contemporary connotations and enduring institutional vitality, thereby achieving innovation and development of tradition. On the other hand, as a collection of the Party’s theoretical achievements and practical experience in the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era, these expositions have also laid a solid foundation for subsequent work.

二是将新时代农村工作的先进经验融入“三农”工作传统之中。新时代以来，世界局势动荡加剧，单边主义持续蔓延，贸易保护主义和逆全球化愈演愈烈。在此背景下，中国农村改革步入深水区，农业产业化转型、农村治理效能提升和农民增收致富的压力在当前和未来一段时期仍将存在。身处世界百年未有之大变局，以习近平同志为核心的党中央带领全党全国各族人民全面推进“三农”工作改革，在农业生产、农村建设和农民发展等方面取得一系列历史性成就，形成发展“三农”事业的中国方案。一方面，从价值追求上看，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述在全面继承了党的“三农”工作光荣传统的同时，不断从实践中总结规律，赋予其新的时代内涵及长久制度活力，实现了对传统的创新与发展。另一方面，作为新时代党的“三农”工作理论成果和实践经验的集合，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述也为后续工作奠定了坚实基础。

Xi Jinping’s important expositions on the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” are an important component and further enrichment and development of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述是习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的重要组成与进一步丰富和发展。

First, they constitute a systematic organization, induction, and summary of the elements concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” within Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Xi Jinping’s important expositions on the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” are the concrete embodiment of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in the field of “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers.” They concentrate the latest practical experience and theoretical achievements gained by Chinese Communists, with Comrade Xi Jinping as their main representative, in advancing the cause of “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” since the New Era, and are a direct projection of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era onto this field. In terms of content, Xi Jinping’s important expositions on the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” cover key elements such as the basic positioning, core tasks, development goals, and implementation pathways of this work, scientifically constructing its “four beams and eight pillars.” [3]3 “Four beams and eight pillars” (四梁八柱) is a Chinese architectural metaphor for a basic framework or main structure, used here to describe the core components of the theoretical system. In terms of origin, these expositions were mainly formed in the course of guiding the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, representing the intersection and connection between this thought and the Party’s rural work practice, an inevitable product of the combination of thought and practice. In terms of contribution, Xi Jinping’s important expositions on the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” are a systematic organization, induction, and summary of the elements concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” within Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, providing theoretical preparation for the formation of Xi Jinping’s thought on “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers.”

一是对习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想中“三农”元素的系统性整理、归纳和总结。习近平总书记关于“三农”工作的重要论述是习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想在“三农”领域的具体体现。习近平总书记关于“三农”工作的重要论述集中了新时代以来以习近平同志为主要代表的中国共产党人在推进“三农”事业中所取得的最新实践经验与理论成果，是习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想在“三农”领域的直接投射。从内容上看，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作的重要论述涵盖了“三农”工作的基本定位、核心任务、发展目标和实施路径等关键要素，为新时代“三农”工作科学建构起“四梁八柱”。从来源上看，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述主要形成于以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想指导“三农”工作的历程之中，是习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想同党的农村工作实践的交汇与联结，是思想同实践相结合的必然产物。从贡献上看，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作的重要论述是习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想中“三农”要素的系统性整理、归纳和总结，为习近平总书记“三农”思想的形成提供了理论准备。

Second, they have formed a theoretical innovation model that enriches and develops Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era through the experience of the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era. In guiding the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era constitutes the basic principles, while Xi Jinping’s important expositions on this work constitute the specific guidelines. The latter is an important component of the former and operates within the former’s overarching framework. At the same time, the latter serves as a necessary link connecting the concrete practical exploration of the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” with macro-level theoretical construction. Xi Jinping’s important expositions on the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” further open up the theoretical development link from practice to exposition to thought, thereby better elevating the successful experience of this work into basic principles that run through it from beginning to end.

二是形成了以新时代“三农”工作经验丰富、发展习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的理论创新模式。在指引“三农”工作方面，习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想构成基本原则，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作的重要论述则构成具体准则，后者是前者的重要组成，并在前者的大前提下开展工作。与此同时，后者又是沟通、连接“三农”工作具体实践探索与宏观理论建构的必要环节。习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述进一步打通了由实践到论述再到思想的理论发展环节，从而更好地将“三农”工作的成功经验上升为贯彻“三农”工作始终的基本准则。

Summary

小结

Since the New Era, in the face of complex and ever-changing international and domestic situations and the arduous and heavy tasks of the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” Xi Jinping’s important expositions on this work have been rich in content and profound in implication. They are the “effective prescription” for solving the problems of “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era, the “key to victory” ensuring the successful conduct of this work in the New Era, and the “theoretical magic weapon” promoting the vigorous development of the cause of “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” in the New Era. On the new journey of the New Era, we must deeply study Xi Jinping’s important expositions on the work concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” deeply excavate the profound connotations and rich values contained within them, adhere to guiding the concrete practice of this work with these expositions, use comprehensive rural revitalization to assist the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, use agricultural and rural modernization to boost Chinese-path modernization, and use building a strong agricultural country to assist in building a modern socialist strong country.

新时代以来，面对纷繁复杂的国际国内形势和艰巨繁重的“三农”工作任务，习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述内涵丰富、意旨深远。习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述是解决新时代“三农”问题的“良方妙计”，是保证新时代“三农”工作成功开展的“制胜之钥”，是推动新时代“三农”事业蓬勃发展的“理论法宝”。新时代新征程，我们要深入学习习近平总书记关于“三农”工作的重要论述，深入挖掘其蕴藏的深刻内涵与丰富价值，坚持以习近平总书记关于“三农”工作重要论述指引“三农”工作具体实践，以乡村全面振兴助力中华民族伟大复兴，以农业农村现代化助推中国式现代化，以农业强国建设助力社会主义现代化强国建设。

Source: *Frontiers* magazine, January 3, 2025

文章来源：《学术前沿杂志》2025年1月3日

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