Rural development

Despite the increase in grain output and the incomes of rural villagers for nine consecutive years, long-term and sustainable agricultural production and improving the quality of villagers' livelihoods is still a hard nut to crack.

The No 1 document the Party's central leadership issued on Thursday stresses that efforts will focus on accelerating the modernization of agricultural production and management organizations.

This is because more than 260 million middle-aged and young villagers have migrated to work in cities and the rising agricultural production momentum will not be maintained unless production is well organized. So the document says that subsidies for agriculture must be tilted toward big specialized households, family farms and rural cooperatives, which are the future of the country's agriculture.