North China's Shanxi province made significant strides in 2024 toward ensuring national food security, enhancing rural industry development, and boosting farmers' incomes. By focusing on these measures, the province had achieved notable progress in comprehensive rural vitalization.

The province advanced industrial clustering, promoted deep processing of agricultural products, and facilitated the integration of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, as well as the fusion of agriculture, culture, and tourism.

Shanxi established six national-level and 133 provincial-level agricultural enterprises and created two modern agricultural industrial parks and five agricultural towns. From January to November, the combined operating income of agricultural leading enterprises at the county level and above in the province reached 238.2 billion yuan ($32.49 billion), a 13.8 percent year-on-year increase.

The province allocated 2.5 billion yuan for rural construction, providing rewards and subsidies to cities and counties with outstanding performance. There are currently 360 exemplary villages, and 2,680 upgraded villages, creating livable, business-friendly, and beautiful rural areas.

Shanxi continuously diversified income sources to ensure sustained farmer income growth. Initiatives focus on expanding facility agriculture by 165,000 mu (11,000 hectares), developing county-level industries to create jobs and train 51,000 high-quality farmers, and distributing agricultural production subsidies totaling 4.67 billion yuan. By the third quarter of 2024, the province's average disposable income per rural resident reached 13,159 yuan, reflecting a growth of 6.4 percent.