On Increasing Farmers' Income Way

With the development of reforms and opening up, the farmers' living standards have improved significantly and, in general, the rural areas are moving from the stage of being adequately fed and clothed to moderate level of prosperity. Nevertheless, since the mid-1990s, Farmers' incomes tend to decline continuously, which has not only hindered the process of building the well-off society, but also impacted the smooth realization of our grand objective to build an overall well-off society put forward at 16th Party Congress.On the basis of detailed investigation concerning the constant changes of farmers' incomes since the reforms and opening up, as well as a deep analysis of different viewpoints on the issue of continuous drop of farmers' incomes, this thesis holds a view that what cause the difficult growth of farmers' incomes, we must give prominence to the principal contradiction, supported with some auxiliary measures under the guidance of material dialectic.The author clarifies his view that the principal contradiction impacting farmers' incomes lies in the low labor productivity in agriculture. To solve this contradiction, another two auxiliary measures are stressed: First, perfect the household contract responsibility system towards a large-scale production. Second, promote the process of urbanization to transfer surplus labor forces in rural areas. In addition, the resolution of this principal contradiction should be coordinated by combination of increasing government's funds and reducing farmers' burdens, by combination of adjusting agricultural structure and promoting industrialization, by combination of improving farmers' quality and leading them towards market economy, and by combination of raising farmers' incomes and conducting ideological education.