A team from the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Areas of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) conducted a survey in Southwest China's Sichuan province from Sept 9 to 12 on consolidating and improving the basic rural operation system. The survey was led by Hu Chunhua, vice-chairman of the CPPCC National Committee. 

The team visited the cities of Meishan, Leshan and Yibin, where they went to villages, family farms, agricultural industrial parks, cooperatives, and agricultural service centers, talking face to face with local officials and farmers. They gained deeper understanding on a series of topics such as confirmation, registration and certification of rural contracted land rights, pilot programs for the second round of land contract extension, land transfers, moderate-scale agricultural operation, commercial agricultural services and the development of high-standard farmland. 

The team acknowledged Sichuan's efforts in advancing rural vitalization and strengthening the basic rural operation system, which have achieved notable progress in stabilizing rural land contract relations, deepening reform of the land-related "separation of ownership, contracting rights and management rights," improving agricultural operation systems, and fostering new forms of collective rural economy.

The team emphasized that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2012, the CPC Central Committee has attached great importance to consolidating and improving the basic rural operation system, and has made a series of important instructions, which is of great significance for laying a solid institutional foundation for China's agricultural and rural modernization, activating the intrinsic vitality of rural vitalization, and ensuring that the vast number of farmers can share the fruits of rural development. 

They called for strengthening research, consultation and policy recommendations, and making active contributions to rural vitalization and the building of a strong country in agriculture.