News Summary: On the afternoon of December 21, President Xi Jinping presided over the 14th Meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Leading Group, to study the progress of 165 major projects outlined in the 13th Five-Year Plan, and solve the outstanding problems that the people are generally concerned about. Xi Jinping voiced on rural pollution: Accelerate the treatment and recycling of livestock and poultry wastes, which should be mainly turned into methane and biogas and reused as rural energy and agricultural organic fertilizer locally, expecting to basically solve large-scale livestock and poultry farms ’manure disposal and utilization problems during the period of the Five-Year Plan.
Xi Jinping noted in his speech
To maintain economic growth rate and promote economic development, it is essential to solve the outstanding problems that the people are generally concerned about, based on which an all-around well-off society could be realized. To be in line with the requirements of supply-side structural reform helps to create new growth points and increase long-term growth potential, while new growth points ensue from solving the prominent problems that the people are generally concerned about.
Xi Jinping presided over the 14th meeting of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs and emphasized to promote the building of a well-off society by starting from solving prominent problems that the people are generally concerned about
The general implementation of garbage classification is vital to the improvement of more than 1.3 billion people’s living environment, to whether the wastes can be reduced, recycled and disposed without harms. It is necessary to speed up the establishment of waste disposal systems for classified throwing, treatment and transport, to form a waste sorting system based on the rule of law, government promotion, national participation, urban-rural integration, and local condition-based measures, and to expand the coverage of the waste classification system.
We should adhere to the policy of government support, enterprise entities and market operation to focus on the treatment of biogas and bio-natural gas for use in rural energy and agricultural organic fertilizers on the spot and in the neighborhood, so as to strive to basically treat manure generated from large-scale livestock and poultry breeding farms during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.
Accelerating the treatment and recycling of livestock and poultry breeding wastes affects more than 600 million rural residents' production and living environment, and the rural energy revolution, and determines whether it can improve soil fertility and solve agricultural non-point source pollution, which is a great benefit for the nation and the people in the long run. It is necessary to adhere to the policy of government supporting, enterprise acting as main player with market-oriented operation. With methane and biogas as a main target, the manure should be used locally as rural energy and agricultural organic fertilizer. It is expected to basically solve the problem of livestock and poultry feces treatment and recycling in large-scale farms in the 13th Five-Year Plan period.
