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Rural land rights affirmed at conference

By Zhang Xiaogang (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2008-10-28 09:43

"Safeguarding farmers' fundamental right to transfer their land use rights will promote the development of democracy in China," said Du Runsheng, a senior rural policy expert and also a pioneer in China's rural reform at a conference held in Beijing today to mark the 30th anniversary of China's reform and opening up.

"It’s still not enough to just maintain long-term stable policies on rural reform and development. We are also going to guarantee fluent transfer and flow of the farmers' land use rights on the basis of a stable policy system." said Du, "It will also facilitate the development of democratic politics to prevent the transfer of farmers’ contract rights from being infringed."