Modern harvesters trundle across rice paddy fields in Nongan county, in Jilin province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Nongan county in Changchun -- capital city of Northeast China's Jilin province -- has made sterling progress in its rural revitalization.

It has made significant improvements in the quality of life of its residents in terms of the environment, as well as in modern agriculture, rural tourism and the construction of new socialist countryside.

Nongan, which has 6.08 million mu (405,333 hectares) of farmland, is a major grain producing county in Jilin province.

As a national modern agricultural demonstration area -- as well as the first pilot county to realize agricultural modernization and one of the first batch of pilot counties for the protection and utilization of the rich black soil region in Northeast China -- Nongan has always prioritized its food security.

As such, it has optimized its grain production infrastructure and continuously promoted modern agricultural planting technology.

The county has popularized the utilization of conservation tillage technology in 2.28 million mu of land, and the area of conservation tillage technology ranks first in Jilin.

It is focusing on promoting crop rotation for corn and soybeans, potatoes, coarse cereals, mixed beans, oil crops and others.

And it is implementing a 100,000 mu farmland crop rotation project, so as to realize a combination of nitrogen fertilization, land utilization and cultivation.

At the same time, a 162,000 mu dry farming water-saving project -- involving the planting of corn, spring onion, garlic, pepper and peanuts -- has seen an increase in output of more than 15 percent and yielded an average income of 2,000 yuan ($300.80) per hectare.

By means of various methods of agricultural production, the Shunminxin agricultural cooperative in the county has done very well indeed.

It has organically integrated the primary, secondary and tertiary industries -- developing high-quality planting, breeding, processing, sales, services and tourism -- in an initiative that has lifted all the local villagers out of poverty.