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China boosts land transfers to ensure better life for farmers
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-12-16 16:19 "It has no difference from real estate development," said Zhou Xiaozheng, a sociologist with the Beijing Renmin University. The government has realized the potential threat to food security in a country, where the per capita arable land is far less than the world average and where more and more farmlands are giving way to factories, roads and other facilities. On November 19, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC and the Ministry of Supervision jointly issued a circular, in which they discussed plans to address problems that harmed farmers' interests. "We will supervise the parties in such cases so that the ownership of land and the way it is used do not change and farmers' legal rights to the land are intact," the circular said. The first rural land exchange agency was set up in the southwestern Chongqing municipality on December 4. While it is too early to see the full effect of these new policies, experts noted that the key point was that farmers' rights were ensured. "Now that China has achieved fast development, it is time that farmers, who made great contributions to the economic miracle, share the fruit with urban citizens," said Xu.
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