国际英语资讯:Economic Watch: Agricultural reform key to Chinas prosperity_时事

国际英语资讯:Economic Watch: Agricultural reform key to Chinas prosperity

BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- China's first central document of 2017 promises to maintain the drive to resolve rural issues on the road to a moderately prosperous society by 2020.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council released a document on supply-side structural reform in the agriculture sector on Sunday.

The first policy statement of year is widely referred to as the "No. 1 Central Document." For the past 14 years, it has been devoted to agriculture, farmers and rural areas.

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Rural areas should make greater strides toward a moderately well-off society by raising agricultural efficiency and farmers' incomes, and promoting green production, the document said.

"China's countryside should be a fascinating place. Agriculture is an attractive sector and farming should be an admirable occupation," said Tang Renjian, deputy director of the central rural work leading group.

URBAN-RURAL DIVIDE

Building the kind of moderately prosperous society China's leaders envisage by 2020 means doubling 2010 GDP and residents' incomes, while lifting the whole population above the poverty line.

The urban-rural income gap continued to narrow last year, with per capita disposable income of rural residents rising 6.2 percent compared to only 5.6 percent among the urban population, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The gap remains considerable however, with the per capita income of urbanites 2.72 times more than that of their rural counterpart.