Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 8th The Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee put forward the historical task of promoting the construction of a new socialist countryside. This is a major decision made by the CPC Central Committee with the overall situation in mind, a long-term perspective and keeping pace with the times. This is a strategic move, which not only benefits hundreds of millions of farmers, but also concerns the long-term stability of the country. This is an important mission that we must undertake and complete in the critical period of socialist modernization. Comrades of the whole party and the people of the whole country should have a clear and profound understanding of this, unify their thoughts and actions with the central decision-making, and work hard for it step by step with one heart and one mind. A large rural population and lagging economic and social development are the basic national conditions of China. Generally speaking, China's economic and social development has entered a new stage of promoting agriculture through industry and bringing rural areas through cities. At this stage, only by implementing the general plan of coordinating urban and rural economic and social development and accelerating the construction of a new socialist countryside with developed production, affluent life, civilized rural customs, clean village appearance and democratic management can we achieve the grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as scheduled. Building a new socialist countryside is an important measure to implement Scientific Outlook on Development. An important content of Scientific Outlook on Development is the comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development of economy and society, and the coordinated development of urban and rural areas is one of the important contents. To fully implement Scientific Outlook on Development, we must ensure that farmers, who account for the majority of the population, participate in the development process and enjoy the fruits of development. If we ignore the wishes and vital interests of farmers and the rural economic and social development lags behind for a long time, our development will not be comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable, and Scientific Outlook on Development will not be implemented. We should deeply understand the internal relationship between building a new socialist countryside and implementing Scientific Outlook on Development, devote ourselves to building a new socialist countryside more consciously and actively, and push economic and social development onto the track of scientific development as soon as possible. Building a new socialist countryside is an inevitable requirement to ensure the smooth progress of China's modernization drive. International experience shows that the coordinated development of workers, farmers and cities is an important prerequisite for the success of modernization. Some countries have handled the relationship between workers, farmers and cities well, and their economy and society have developed rapidly, and they have quickly entered the ranks of modern countries. In some countries, the relationship between workers, farmers and cities has not been properly handled, resulting in long-term backwardness in rural areas, leading to economic stagnation or even retrogression in the whole country, which has seriously hindered the modernization process. We should learn from the positive and negative experiences of foreign countries, integrate rural development into the whole modernization process, make the construction of a new socialist countryside go hand in hand with industrialization and urbanization, let hundreds of millions of farmers enjoy the fruits of modernization, and take the road of modernization with China characteristics, that is, the coordinated development of industry and agriculture and the prosperity of urban and rural areas. Building a new socialist countryside is the key task of building a well-off society in an all-round way. The well-off society we are building is a higher level well-off society that benefits more than one billion people. Its focus is on the countryside, and its difficulties are also in the countryside. Since the reform and opening up, great changes have taken place in China's urban landscape, but the rural landscape in most areas has changed relatively little. In some places, roads are not accessible in rural areas, the masses look down on diseases, have no access to clean water, and farmers' children can't afford to go to school. If this situation cannot be effectively reversed, building a well-off society in an all-round way will become empty talk. Therefore, we should accelerate the process of building a well-off society in rural areas by building a new socialist countryside. Building a new socialist countryside is a lasting motive force to maintain the steady and rapid development of the national economy. Expanding domestic demand is the long-term strategic policy and basic foothold of China's economic development. Rural areas are the most reliable and lasting power source for China's economic growth, with the largest consumer groups and the greatest potential. By promoting the construction of new socialist countryside, we can accelerate the development of rural economy, increase farmers' income, turn hundreds of millions of farmers' potential willingness to buy into huge realistic consumption demand, and stimulate the sustained growth of the whole economy. In particular, by strengthening the construction of rural roads, housing, energy, water conservancy and communication, we can not only improve farmers' production and living conditions and consumption environment, but also digest the excess capacity of some industries and promote the development of related industries. Building a new socialist countryside is an important foundation for building a harmonious socialist society. Social harmony is inseparable from the social harmony in the vast rural areas. At present, China's rural social relations are generally healthy and stable, but there are also some contradictions and problems that cannot be ignored. By promoting the construction of a new socialist countryside and accelerating rural economic and social development, it is conducive to better safeguarding farmers' legitimate rights and interests, alleviating rural social contradictions, reducing rural unstable factors and laying a solid foundation for building a harmonious socialist society. We should deeply understand the great significance of the strategic decision to build a new socialist countryside and steadily push forward the construction of a new socialist countryside. (