More steps advised for rural economy

More measures are needed to attract talent to rural areas to help development, Jin Sanlin, a senior researcher of rural economies at the Development Research Center of the State Council, said on Wednesday.

"In general, China is still undergoing rapid urbanization, and more people will continue to migrate from rural areas to cities," Jin said at the 5th Forum on New Urbanization and Social Integration of the Migrant Population, which was hosted in Beijing by the National Health Commission and United Nations representatives in China.

"However, a top priority should be to change the one-way flow of population from rural areas to cities and improve the mechanism for a two-way flow of population between urban and rural areas to attract talent of all sorts to contribute to rural rejuvenation," he said.