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As a rural blueprint unveiled annually, this year's document urged retaining a "red line" of 1.8 billion mu (120 million hectares) of arable land and preventing the use of arable land for non-farming purposes.

Cooperatives nationwide purchased farm produce worth 272.6 billion yuan from impoverished areas last year, up 14.1 percent year on year. Their sales of farm produce grew 19.5 percent year on year to 2.2 trillion yuan.

Local people have started since 2020 to develop morel mushroom planting industry to improve income. 

The total area planted in grain reached 116.8 million hectares in 2020, up by 704,000 hectares from last year and reversing a four-year streak of decline.

The light supplementing system has been introduced to the dragon fruit planting bases to enhance photosynthesis and prolong the fruiting period of dragon fruits.