Moderate developing area includes the northwest, southwest and the surround along with the Great Wall, this area has the distinctive features of agricultural industry, but has water and soil configuration dislocation and the limit of environmental carrying capacity, so this area should adhere to both conservation and development, moderate developing potential, intensive conservation and orderly utilization.

Protected developing area including Tibet and marine fisheries, with special strategic importance in ecological protection and construction, should insist on the protection of priority, restricted development, appropriate development of eco-industries and special industries, and promote a healthy ecosystem.
"Plan" put forward the coming period to promote sustainable agricultural development in five key tasks:

First, optimize the layout of the development, stability enhance agricultural productivity. By 2020, agricultural science and technology contribution rate of more than 60%, integrated mechanization level of the main crops farming income of more than 68%, the national modern agriculture demonstration zones and major grain-producing counties in the region basically agricultural resource recycling, the 2030 National Basic achieve zero discharge of agricultural wastes trend.

Second, the plan mentioned the protection of arable land resources, promoting the sustainable use of farmland. To ensure the amount of cultivated land in more than 18 million mu of basic farmland of not less than 15.6 million mu, to 2020 concentrated, 8 million mu of high-standard farmland, to prevent heavy metal pollution of farmland, to establish soil classification system management of agricultural origin. According to the State Council approved a new round of forest and grass overall program, returning farmland to forest and grass.

Third, the plan mentioned conservation and efficient water utilization, protection of agricultural water safety. implementation of water resources management in red line, promote water-saving irrigation, development of rain-fed agriculture, the 2020 national agricultural irrigation water is maintained at 372 billion cubic meters, the effective utilization coefficient of irrigation water reaches 0.55, the development of efficient water-saving irrigation area of ​​2.88 million hectares.

Fourth, the plan mentioned environmental pollution, especially to improve agricultural and rural environment, to prevent farmland pollution and Integrated farming pollution control, to improve the rural environment, in 2020 the amount of chemical fertilizers and pesticides application is zero growth, and by 2030 to achieve the basic comprehensive utilization of aquaculture litter, the recycle utilization of the litter of agricultural film and pesticide packaging in the main agricultural producing areas as well as the crop straws.