2) Economic crops
-Cotton: cultivated cotton areas will remain at about 4.3333 million hectares. The focus will be on optimizing breed structure and improving quality standards to meet the developmental needs of the cotton-spinning industry.

-Oil plants: increasing the gross output and gradually decreasing imports of oil plants and edible oil. By 2005, the cultivated oil-plant area will reach 16.6667 million hectares. Cole growing in the Yangtze River valley will be boosted with the addition of 1.6667 million hectares. The overall utilization and development of cole seeds will be improved and export bases for peanuts will be set up to promote industrialization and improve overall economic benefits.

-Sugar plants: cultivated sugar plant areas will remain at about 1.8 million hectares. Relevant regional arrangement will be adapted to the adjustments of sugar-refinery factories. Fine breeds will be promoted and efforts will be made to improve production efficiency.

-Tea: cultivated tea areas will remain at 1.0667 million hectares. Tea fields with a low yield will be terminated and fine clonal breeds will receive priority, which will account for more than 25 percent of the total tea fields. Priority will be given to the domestic market while the international market will be optimized. Great importance will be attached to the problem of pesticide residues and the use of poisonous pesticide will be forbidden. Bio-tech methods will be popularized in tea growing and the production of green teas; health and organic teas will be promoted.

-Silkworm cocoons: cultivated mulberry areas will remain at 0.8 million hectares. Improving the quality of silkworms and adjusting the overall sericiculture arrangement will be a principal task. The construction of well-managed sericiculture fields and fine-quality silkworms will be encouraged while inferior silkworms and severe microsporidiosis will be eliminated. The feeding capacity of summer and early-autumn cocoons will be reduced and the proportion of spring and middle-autumn cocoons will be maintained.

-Flax plants: flax plant growing will be expanded to meet hemp-spinning developments. Regional arrangements will be improved and high-yield flax fields will be retained while inferior crops will be eliminated. Scale planting will be promoted step by step and fine-quality seeds will be popularized to improve per-unit yield, quality and efficiency.

-Vegetable: vegetable growing will remain at about 13.3333 million hectares. The production of green vegetables and edible appressorium will be promoted. Vegetable quality will be upgraded and supply in the domestic market will be better balanced. Coastal regions and areas along the frontiers will develop export-oriented vegetable products for markets in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and the international market.

-Fruit: fruit areas will remain at about 8.6667 million hectares. The focus will be on the development of famous, fine-quality and new fruits. Apple production will be stabilized at the Loess Plateau, northwest of China. The production of mandarins will focus on oranges and stabilizing the pomelo output; the proportion of oranges to mandarins will rise from 30 to 40 percent. Existing breeds of pears will also be upgraded. Growing apples, oranges and pears will be pivotal and an inoculation plan will be implemented to improve product quality and the proportion of processing-type fruits.

-Flower: stabilizing cultivated flower areas and improving breeds and quality to form a development pattern of specialization, large-sized industrialization and enhancing export capability will be stressed.

-Others: controlling tobacco-leaf growing and developing high-quality leaf products will be a priority, as well as developing the production of raw materials for traditional Chinese medicine according to market need.

4. Main measures:
1) Enhancing input for agriculture and improving the investment structure; attaching importance to high-quality products and encouraging export while promoting the construction of production bases.

-Enhancing the three basic, systematic establishments of the planting industry, implementing the technology-promotion system and product-market system; quality supervision and examination system for agricultural products.

-Focusing on the construction of three projects -- Seeds, Plant Protection and Fertile Soil.

-Establishing demonstrative projects for the planting industry.

2) Take advantage of scientific and technological advancements to improve relevant standards.
-technologies to upgrade farming product quality
-technologies to cut costs and add efficiency
-technologies for sustainable development
-anti-disaster and disaster-minimizing technologies

3) Stabilizing and improving the fundamental management system in the countryside and maintaining farmers' enthusiasm in farming production.

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