Capacity Development for New Countryside Construction in China

New countryside construction is among the highlights in China. The new countryside construction aims to accelerate the development and modernization of the agricultural and rural economy. Capacity development for new countryside construction in China is based on the goal of ensuring a fundamental shift towards the sustainable production and provision of sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that simultaneously builds and reinforces ecosystem resilience, leading to equitable and economically viable livelihoods. Enhancing capacity development in the new countryside construction must play a role in the transformational change of the current development framework, ensuring that agriculture and other relevant sectors are systematically integrated. This integration will employ inter-sectoral, inter-institutional, multi-stakeholder and multi-level participatory processes that are supported through capacity development within the enabling national, organizational and individual dimensions.