On the reform road to rural areas
By Wu Jiao | China Daily | Updated: 2008-10-28 07:50
Villagers tend to persimmons hung up to dry from a bamboo scaffolding in Gongcheng, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Xinhua |
The central leadership has promised longer-term land use rights and very tight land acquisition regulation to farmers as part of its rural reform. The proposals, still to be written into law, carry forward China's comprehensive land reform that began in the late 1970s with the dismantling of the commune system.
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