Financial authorities have reported that in recent years, the city has focused on key tasks of fiscal support for rural revitalization and advancing agricultural and rural modernization. A diversified investment mechanism has been strengthened, driving quality and efficiency improvements in agricultural and rural investment with substantial capital. In the first quarter of this year, the city's expenditure on agriculture, forestry, and water conservancy reached 2.63 billion yuan, continuing to safeguard rural revitalization efforts.

In 2025, the city's primary industry value-added grew by 4.2%, ranking fifth in the province. Fixed asset investment in the primary sector surged by 41.9%, securing the top provincial position. The total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery reached 47.97 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.2%. Grain sowing area covered 5.229 million mu, up 0.2%, with output hitting 1.996 million tons, a 0.4% increase, marking five consecutive years of net output growth.

Enhancing Fiscal Support for Agriculture to Strengthen the Foundation of Rural Development

Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, municipal finance has consistently prioritized support for agriculture and rural areas. An annual budget allocates 148 million yuan in special funds to support rural revitalization, ensuring stable investment. Throughout this period, total fiscal funds from all levels dedicated to this transition amounted to 9.78 billion yuan, effectively consolidating poverty alleviation achievements and advancing rural revitalization.

Concurrently, total expenditure on agriculture, forestry, and water conservancy reached 48.46 billion yuan, accounting for 17.8% of general public budget expenditure, ranking second among all expenditure categories. The proportion of land transfer income allocated to agriculture and rural areas was increased, reaching 20.8% in 2025.

In securing key projects, the city has made sustained efforts. Since 2021, it has successfully applied for two modern agricultural industrial park projects, five strong agricultural industry town projects, one advantageous characteristic industry cluster project, and four central special lottery public welfare fund projects supporting rural revitalization in underdeveloped old revolutionary base areas, securing 650 million yuan in superior-level funding. The number of projects and funding amounts secured rank among the top in the province.

In 2025, the city successfully applied for a central fiscal demonstration and incentive project for the camellia oil industry development, with a total investment of 1.013 billion yuan, securing 600 million yuan in superior-level incentive funds. This was one of only six such national projects and the sole recipient in the province.

Vigorously Guiding Social Capital to Activate Endogenous Rural Momentum

The city established a municipal agricultural investment and development company as a market-oriented professional investment and financing platform. Through equity investments and fund guidance, it directly participates in key industrial projects, precisely serving as an investment bellwether.

Major agriculture-related projects are utilized to attract social investment. The central fiscal camellia oil industry demonstration project leveraged 313 million yuan in social capital. Actions such as "Ten Thousand Enterprises Revitalizing Ten Thousand Villages" and "Hundred Cooperatives Linking Hundred Villages" have been deeply implemented, promoting the systematic flow of capital, technology, and talent to rural areas.

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, these efforts cumulatively attracted 1,047 enterprises to pair with and support 796 villages, injecting 4.175 billion yuan in social capital and helping agriculture-related entities develop over 200 characteristic industry projects.

Models like "village collective economic organization + leading enterprise + cooperative + farmer" and "one homestead, two courtyards" are vigorously promoted, encouraging village collectives and farmers to invest land management rights, idle farmhouses, and capital into industrial projects, building close-knit interest communities.

Actively Utilizing Financial Instruments to Improve Agricultural Financing Efficiency

Supporting policy financial tools such as credit enhancement guarantees and loan interest subsidies are employed to effectively lower the entry threshold and risks for social capital. By the end of 2025, the city had 179 agricultural projects in its database, with a total investment scale of 17.15 billion yuan.

Innovative characteristic credit products have been developed, and special incentive policies formulated to guide financial institutions to tailor products like "Blueberry Loan," "Rice-Shrimp Industry Loan," and "Gourd Industry Mutual Aid Loan" based on local resource endowments and business entity characteristics.

Regular bank-farmer matchmaking and the establishment of green financing channels have enhanced the accessibility and convenience of financing for agriculture-related entities. In 2025, banking institutions in the city signed medium- to long-term strategic agreements with 783 agricultural entities, cumulatively issuing loans totaling 1.68 billion yuan.

Among these, agricultural supply chain finance was utilized to issue 370 million yuan in loans to 186 agricultural business operators, with the lending scale ranking among the top in the province.