Latest policy reinforces backing for agriculture

China will deepen supply-side structural reform in agriculture to develop the sector, according to a recent policy document.

The major problems facing China's agricultural sector are structural ones, mainly on the supply side, according to the document by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council.

The document calls for improving the structures of the industry, promoting "green" production, extending the sector's industrial and value chain, boosting innovation, consolidating shared rural development and enhancing rural reforms.