Rural reforms dig deeper

Improving the living standards of rural villagers is key to building a well-off society by the year 2020. This is how important rural work is, as described at the Party's conference on rural work, and this points to what improving the lives of rural residents means to the future of this country.

Despite 10 consecutive years of bumper harvests, agriculture will hardly have a solid basis for sustainable development if rural villagers continue to be poor without any chance of becoming rich by working in the fields. This explains why solving the problem of "who will farm in fields" is considered strategically relevant not only to agriculture and rural development, but also to the country's economic development and social progress as a whole.

Making agricultural production a lucrative and attractive business is the goal of the reforms that the central authorities will carry out in a down-to-earth manner.