Recently, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the "Key Points of Digital Rural Development Work in 2025" (hereinafter referred to as the "Key Points of Work").

　　The "Key Points of Work" requires thoroughly implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions and important instructions on the "Three Rural Affairs" work, fully implementing the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and the Central Rural Work Conference, and in accordance with the deployment requirements of the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Further Deepening Rural Reform and Solidly Promoting the Comprehensive Revitalization of Rural Areas", thoroughly implementing the "Digital Rural Development Strategy Outline", insisting on learning and applying the "Ten Million Project" experience, insisting on playing the leading role of informatization, anchoring the task goal of strengthening agriculture, benefiting farmers and enriching farmers, and striving to promote agricultural efficiency, increasing rural vitality, and increasing farmers' income, providing solid support for accelerating the construction of a network power and promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.

　　The "Key Points of Work" clarifies the work goals: by the end of 2025, the "14th Five-Year Plan" for digital rural development will be successfully concluded. The role of digital technology in ensuring national food security and ensuring that large-scale relapse into poverty is not caused by poverty. The 5G accessibility rate of administrative villages across the country exceeded 90%, the Internet penetration rate in rural areas has steadily increased, the informatization rate of agricultural production has been further improved, the online retail sales of agricultural products have continued to grow steadily, the efficiency of rural digital governance and information services have been continuously enhanced, and digital technology has accelerated the narrowing of urban-rural gap and promoted the integrated development of urban and rural areas.

　　"Key Points of Work" deploys 26 key tasks in 9 aspects. First, consolidate the foundation for digital rural development. This includes further improving rural network infrastructure, accelerating the digital transformation of rural infrastructure, and orderly promoting the integration and sharing of agricultural data resources. The second is to strongly support and firmly maintain the "two bottom lines". Including improving digital support and guarantee of food security and strengthening online assistance measures to prevent poverty relapse and poverty. The third is to accelerate the development of smart agriculture. Including promoting the innovative application of smart agricultural technology and equipment and improving the digitalization level of the entire agricultural industry chain. Fourth, strengthen new rural industries and new business formats. This includes promoting the high-quality development of rural e-commerce, promoting the integrated development of agriculture, culture and tourism according to local conditions, and using digital technology to promote farmers' employment and income growth. Fifth, prosper and develop rural digital culture. This includes promoting the digitalization of rural cultural relics resources and increasing the digital supply of rural public cultural services. Sixth, improve the effectiveness of rural digital governance. Including continuously promoting the informatization of rural "three affairs" policies, improving the digital level of rural social governance, and enhancing rural smart emergency management capabilities. 7. Deepen digital inclusive services in rural areas. This includes continuously improving the digital level of rural education, continuously promoting the healthy development of rural digital, continuously deepening rural digital inclusive financial services, and strengthening information service guarantees for special rural groups. Eighth, promote the construction of smart and beautiful villages. Including deepening the digital application of rural living environment improvement and improving the efficiency of rural ecological environment protection and supervision. Nine is to coordinate the construction of digital villages. This includes strengthening the cross-departmental and cross-level coordination of digital rural areas, implementing special actions to strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers and enrich farmers, improving the investment guarantee mechanism for digital rural areas, taking multiple measures to cultivate and expand the digital rural talent team, and creating a good environment for digital rural development. (Author: Netxuan)

[Editor in charge: Zhu Jiaqi]