1.Agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy In 2016, the central finance arranged 23.75 billion yuan as agricultural machinery purchase subsidy, which was the same level from the year before. Following related regulations of MoA and Ministry of Finance, each region actively pushed forward “reducing scope, controlling quota, promoting opening”， vigorously enhanced green and ecological orientation, enhanced innovation practice, reinforced comprehensive implementation of policies, the whole year's work was highly efficient, standardized, smooth and orderly, regular and stable implementation made a solid pace, implementation progress obviously increased compared with before, supporting 2.46 million farmers in purchasing 2.83 million (or sets) agricultural machinery; Promoted the stable increase in total volume of national agricultural machinery and continuous structural improvement; promoted the increase of national crop planting and harvesting comprehensive mechanization rate by 1.4 percentage points, reaching 65.2 percent.
The subsidy implementation work received “high policy realization” the highest-level evaluation in third-party performance evaluation organized by the Ministry of Finance. Carried out works mainly including:
1)Focused on key points, and pushed forward unlimited subsidy. Centering on lifting the effective supply of machinery of production urgent need and green environmental protection, the MoA guided each region to intensify support efforts in grain, cotton, oil, sugar, fodder grass and other staple crops production machinery and green environmentally friendly machinery, strive to offer subsidy to meet needs, with no limitation. Among the 38 implemented provinces and units, 13 realized unlimited subsidy for all the products, and others also made unlimited subsidy arrangement for key products.
2)Paid attention to innovation, and enriched policy function. Enhanced the function of subsidy policy in supporting the transfer and application of agricultural machinery science and technology achievements, launched subsidy pilot projects for agricultural machinery new products in Zhejiang, Fujian and Hunan provinces, and co-agreed Shandong Province to launch subsidy pilot project on bee-keeping equipment.
3)Highlighted openness, and reinforced supervision efforts. Focused on safeguarding a good implementation order of subsidy policies, promoted comprehensively subsidy information disclosure in provinces, cities and counties, and enhance social supervision. Focused on reinforcing the concentrated information disclosure of county-level subsidy-benefited farmers, and the real-time disclosure of the use progress of county-level subsidy. Innovated supervision and inspection, organized 47 experts, carried out random spot-checks at key period on key works, and timely urged each region to rectify discovered problems. Harshly punished illegal behaviors, organized the development and online operation of illegal processing and blacklist database, conducted centralized registration of 384 illegal investigated and punished information of each province, 72 blacklist information of subsidy product management, with the inter-provincial linkage mechanism on illegal behavior investigation and punishment initially established, which made it truly difficult for breach illegal enterprises to go around.
4)Centering on delegating power, regulating, and providing service, optimized organizational management. Promoted synchronized efforts in delegating powers to local administrative units and lifting each province's management and service level. Optimized the work mechanism of classification, sub-filling and filing of subsidy machines and tools, gave the duty and authority of merging and refining the grade of general-use-category machines and tools to each province. Enhanced extended performance management, ensured the implementation of major decisions and deployment by MoA and Ministry of Finance, and gave recognition for 10 excellent performance management provinces of the year 2015 including Anhui. Enhanced the service capacity and quality of provincial-level subsidy work team, held seven conferences and trainings on performance management, supervision and inspection, information disclosure and illegal behavior management, and trained a total of more than 500 people.
2.Deep scarification subsidy Launching agricultural machinery deep scarification and soil preparation is an important measure to improve the quality of arable land, enhancing grain comprehensive production capacity, and promoting agricultural sustainable development. To implement the goal and task of adding deep scarification land area by 150 million mu (10 million hectares) in the 2016 government work report, the MoA attached great importance to the work, with multiple measures at the same time, vigorously promoted the subsidy work of deep scarification operation, implemented over 2 billion yuan relevant subsidy fund in 2016, subsidized an area of some 4.933 3 million hectares, which fully motivated the enthusiasm of each party. In 2016, agricultural machinery deep scarification and soil preparation operation was conducted on an area of 10.533 3 million hectares, which exceeded the yearly goal.
1)Reinforced administrative promotion. The MoA issued National Agricultural Machinery Deep Scarification and Soil Preparation Operation Implementation Plan (2016-2020), MoA's Notice on Implementing State Council's Government Work Report Deployment and Well Conducting 2016 Agricultural Machinery Deep Scarification and Soil Preparation Work, and divided the 2016 task of 10 million hectares to each province; Implemented monthly-report performance evaluation system for the progress of agricultural machinery deep scarification and soil preparation operation; During key farming season, the MoA formed work supervision team, and conducted field supervision on the operation progress and subsidy policy implementation situation of key provinces.
2)Enhanced policy supports. The MoA and Ministry of Finance continued to carry out subsidy pilot for agricultural machinery deep scarification and soil preparation operation, and allowed each province to arrange no more than 15 percent of the agricultural machinery purchasing subsidy fund from central finance to be used in deep scarification operation. Each region actively strove for the support of financial departments, combined with reality, enacted specific subsidy standards (20-40 yuan per mu in most regions), following the principle of operation first, subsidy after, public disclosure first, cashing after), subsidized operation task was undertaken with priority by agricultural machinery service organizations, encouraged the launch of continuous operation, and promoted the task in whole village and in whole town.
3)Generalized information-based monitoring. Actively promoted each region to use modern information technology including satellite positioning and mobile Internet electronic sensors to conduct real-time monitoring and remote supervision of the quality of agricultural machinery deep scarification and soil preparation operation within the financial subsidy scope. In 2016, information-based monitoring was conducted on an area of some 3.333 3 million hectares, which accounted for 67 percent of the total subsidized operation area, which ensured qualified operation quality, and effectively avoided the occurrence of illegal behaviors including lowering operation standards, false report of operation area and taking subsidy fund, gaining welcome from the general machinery farmers and affirmation from the financial and accounting departments.
