Ningbo rated 'excellent' in provincial assessment for rural revitalization

A rural view of Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/WeChat account: nbfb0574]

Ningbo was rated 'excellent' in the provincial evaluation for its efforts in facilitating rural revitalization in 2021, according to a circular recently released by the Zhejiang provincial government.

This was the fourth year in a row that the city had been rated as such. Its administrative areas – Yinzhou district, Fenghua district, Cixi city and Xiangshan county - were also classified as "excellent" in the assessment.

In 2021, the added value of the city's agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery was 37.25 billion yuan ($5.73 billion), a year-on-year uptick of 3 percent.

The development gap between Ningbo's urban and rural areas has narrowed significantly in recent years.

In 2021, the income ratio between urban and rural residents in the city stood at 1.72, slightly narrower than the previous year. This was the 17th consecutive year the city's urban-rural income gap had narrowed.

The per capita disposable income of low-income households was 19,217 yuan, up 15.2 percent year-on-year.

The local government has set a target of having 80 percent of the city's families earn an annual disposable income of over 100,000 yuan and 40 percent earn between 200,000 and 600,000 yuan by 2025.