China unveiled its "No. 1 central document" for 2024 on Saturday, outlining the priorities for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization this year.

The document encompasses six parts, including ensuring national food security, forestalling any large-scale relapse into poverty, improving rural industries' development, strengthening rural construction, enhancing rural governance and strengthening the leadership of the Communist Party of China on work regarding agriculture, rural areas and farmers.

As the first policy statement released by China's central authorities each year, the document is seen as an indicator of policy priorities.

In a bid to advance Chinese modernization, efforts must be made to lay a solid foundation for agriculture, the document said, calling for learning and applying the development concepts, working methods and promotion mechanisms contained in the "Thousand Villages Demonstration and Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project and fully, accurately and comprehensively implementing the new development philosophy.

It is imperative to raise the level of rural industrial development, rural development, and rural governance, strengthen measures to increase farmers' income, and enhance the two-wheel drive of science and technology and reform, it said.

(With input from Xinhua)

(Cover: An agricultural technology expert (L) teaches farmers pest and disease control techniques in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, December 5, 2023. /CFP)