Rural revitalization key to growth and consumption

Professor says policy is important in move toward tech-based economy

Among the many political and economic issues on the agenda for China's national legislators and political advisers, US political scientist Jon Taylor considers rural revitalization to be one of the most important issues to be addressed at this year's two sessions.

"President Xi (Jinping) talked about three tough battles - preventing financial risk, reducing poverty and tackling pollution," said Taylor, a professor at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, United States. "When you think about where China has come from in the last 40 years, the anti-poverty battle has been mostly won but not completely."