Promoting the role of Vietnamese farmers-the subject of agriculture, and new-type rural area development
6/2/17
Proper awareness of the role of farmers is a basis,
on the one hand, for encouraging farmers to actively participate in economic,
political, cultural, social activities; on the other hand, for finding
solutions to continue upholding that role, contributing to early achieve the
set goals.
Vietnam
with its natural conditions has early possessed wet rice civilization. Over
millions of years, the Vietnamese farmers have been growing strongly,
constituting the most populous social forces (1), making great contributions to
the struggle for nation defense and construction and conservation of the
country's civilization and culture.
Since
its coming into being and during the revolution, the Communist Party of Vietnam
has always appreciated the role of farmers, considering the worker-farmer
alliance and the worker-farmer-intellectual alliance the foundation and premise
for every victory of the revolution, the struggle for national liberation,
construction and defense of the Fatherland. President Ho Chi Minh said in such
a backward agricultural country like Vietnam, the national problem was
essentially the problem of farmers; the national revolution was essentially the
revolution of farmers led by the working class. Experience of the Communist
Party of Vietnam during the revolution process has shown that when and where
farmers’ interests are ensured, and principles of the class alliance are fully
grasped, the revolution is strong and successful.
To
shift from a country with small production, backwardness, low labor productivity
to large-scale production with modern means of production and high labor
productivity industrialization and modernization are essential. Vietnam as a
backward agricultural country with low starting point needs to begin with
agriculture, farmers and rural areas. This is the universal roadmap and rule of
development of many countries.
At
the 8th National Congress, the Communist Party of Vietnam affirmed to attach
special importance to industrialization and modernization of agriculture and
rural areas. The 7th Plenum, 10th Tenure emphasized that agriculture, farmers
and rural areas had a strategic position in the cause of industrialization and
modernization, national construction and defense, constituting the basis and
crucial force for sustainable socio-economic development, political stability,
security and defense, national identity preservation and promotion and
ecological environment protection.
Thus,
it can be seen that the Communist Party of Vietnam is always fully aware of and
attaches great importance to the role of the farmers in the revolution from the
first day of the national democratic revolution to the socialist revolution
later. The renewal process under the leadership of the Party, to some extent,
originated from the creativity of the farmers in practice. Since the country
conducted development of the new-type rural areas, agricultural modernization
and rural development, the issue of the role of the peasantry has been better
aware of by the Party. The question now is how to help farmers to uphold their
role. First of all, it should be said that the peasantry is the subject of
industrialization and modernization and development of agriculture and new-type
countryside in Vietnam at present.
The
central task of the Vietnamese revolution at the present stage is to accelerate
industrialization and modernization of agriculture, and building new-type,
beautiful, equitable, democratic and civilized rural areas with suitable
economic structure, progressive and appropriative production relations and more
modern socio-economic infrastructure.
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