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Governor Talked about the Three Major
Rural Problems
By Wang Liqiong
PKU NEWS 2005—04—05
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=112839893
Peking, Beijing, April 5th, 2005: First vice governor of HeBei province lectured the three
major problems concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers at the joint invitation of
PKU School of Government and PKU Public Administration Seminar on the evening of
April 5th.
Vice governor Guo Gengmao said the three major problems have been placed on
government‘s high agenda because of their features and unique importance to China‘s
modernization.
Agriculture is the matter of the national security in China who feeds 7% of the world‘s
population with 22% of the world‘s cultivated areas. Without the stability and
development in the vast countryside, without the improvement of farmers‘ life, there can
never be a real well-off harmonious society.
Guo considered the core of these problems is whether the following aspects are well
achieved: the gain of comparative profits in agricultural production, farmers‘ increasing
income, and the coordination between urban areas and rural areas.
He presented the structural difficulties with the advance of rural reform, analyzed the
causes and concluded that the three major problems would be settled under the proper
official measures instead of self-adjusting.
Great achievements have attracted worldwide attention especially since 1979 when
rural reforms were introduced. The implementation of the household contract
responsibility system in the first period gave farmers greater power to make production,
management, sales and budgeting decisions, turning them into independent commodity
producers; Reform in the second period has been closely tied to urban reform, making it
a macroeconomic management. The reform is still being carried out.
With the economical strides made in the east of China, the reality of excessive
discrepancies among regions require more efforts to narrow the gap for the harmonious
development.
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