Authorities in East China's Zhejiang province recently released a series of guidelines to promote rural revitalization and narrow the income gap between regions as well as urban and rural areas.

According to the guidelines, 26 counties in mountainous areas will build 30 agricultural industrial chains with an output value of more than 1 billion yuan ($149 million) by the end of 2025. The average annual growth rate of the rural collective economy is also expected to be 3 percentage points higher than the provincial average by that year.

Pujiang county in Jinhua, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/zjol.com.cn]

Other goals include raising the per capita disposable income of farmers to 37,000 yuan, narrowing the income gap between mountainous areas and all farmers in the province to 1.2, and ensuring the per capita disposable income of low-income peasant households reaches 13,000 yuan.

The guidelines contain 10 measures that are focused on developing efficient agricultural practices, enriching the lives of rural residents, promoting employment and entrepreneurship and devising means to make up for the developmental shortcomings of 26 counties in mountainous regions.

The guidelines also mention the provision of support to 26 counties in mountainous areas in cultivating leading industries with distinctive advantages and cultivating a group of provincial agricultural leading enterprises.