中国是一个农业大国，农民占全国人口的绝大多数，农村的经济、文化状况是当代中国进行社会主义建设的一个关键的制衡因素。因此，党和政府在领导全国各族人民进行改革开放和社会主义建设的过程中，始终把“三农”（农业、农民、农村）问题当作一个基础性的问题来加以考虑... China is a big agricultural country with peasants taking the overwhelming majority of the country’s population. The economic and cultural conditions in rural areas are a key counterbalance factor in the socialist construction in contemporary China. Therefore, in the process of leading the people of all nationalities across the country in carrying out the reform and opening up and socialist construction, the party and the government have always considered the issue of “agriculture, farmers and rural areas” as a basic issue.