ZAOZHUANG, China, July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from The Publicity Department of the CPC Zaozhuang Municipal Committee:

Zaozhuang City of East China's Shandong Province is striving to become a model city of the province's rural revitalization.

From June 14th to 16th, the on-site promotion conference on innovation leading rural revitalization was held in Zaozhuang. The city has previously been approved to construct a national demonstration zone for the sustainable development agenda, which has provided a rare opportunity to promote rural revitalization.

Zaozhuang insists on starting with "innovation" and relying on "innovation" to implement actions, in order to fully unleash its development potential and infuse the rural revitalization with a source of vitality.

To effectively lead rural revitalization through innovation, Zaozhuang fully explores the diversified value of agriculture through innovative management. It deepens the reform of rural land system, activates idle rural resources, accelerates the transformation of ecological product value, and truly maximizes the operational benefits of agriculture.

It empowers rural industries with technological innovation to improve their quality and efficiency. It vigorously develops modern agriculture, actively establishes application scenarios such as "industry brain + digital farm," expands and strengthens the deep processing of agricultural products, comprehensively improves agricultural production efficiency, and promotes the upgrading of the entire rural industrial chain.

It promotes effective aggregation of urban and rural factors through policy innovation. It adheres to the principles of sending people to the grassroots, investing money in the grassroots, and tilting policies toward the grassroots, accelerating the transfer of funds, technology, talents, and information to rural areas, and providing sufficient guarantee for rural development.

It implements demonstration zone construction with innovative approaches. It focuses on constructing a batch of demonstration models and uses specific cases to drive the overall revitalization of rural areas.

Zaozhuang will further refine and improve regional development planning and implementation strategies, adapt strategies to local conditions, activate the "local resources," showcase the "local culture," and win with "local characteristics." It will make efforts to embark on a differentiated and distinctive path of rural revitalization and strive to compose the "Zaozhuang chapter," which serves as a model for rural revitalization in the Shandong province.