The grain output of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region hit a record high this year as the harvested areas registered a year-on-year increase of 5.6 percent, according to the regional statistics bureau.
China is expected to intensify policy support to shore up economic growth and further boost the real economy, as the expansion of both industrial production and social consumption lost some steam recently.
To prevent the sporadic resurgence of COVID-19, China encouraged people to stay put over the holiday this year, which lasted from Feb. 11 to 17.
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.
One designer said the new line can improve average manufacturing efficiency by more than 40 percent, as it enables many key satellite production steps to be carried out by machines rather than manual labor.