Guess what's back on the official Chinese news agency website
After its first appearance, all mention of land use rights for Chinese farmers, disappeared from the Xinhua web site and from the official end of CPC Central Committee meeting announcement.
Photo taken on Oct. 12, 2008, shows all nine members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Hu Jintao (C), Wu Bangguo (4th R), Wen Jiabao (4th L), Jia Qinglin (3rd R), Li Changchun (3rd L), Xi Jinping (2nd R), Li Keqiang (2nd L), He Guoqiang (1st R) and Zhou Yongkang (1st L) attend the third Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee, which was held from Oct. 9 to 12 in Beijing. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)Now, what seems to be an almost identical news story is back up at Xinhua. (See Property rights in China)
China liberalizes farmers' land use right to boost rural development
"The Communist Party of China (CPC) issued a landmark policy document on Sunday to allow farmers to "lease their contracted farmland or transfer their land-use right" to boost the scale of operation for farm production and provide funds for them to start new businesses.
"The Decision on Major Issues Concerning the Advancement of Rural Reform and Development was approved by the CPC Central Committee on Oct. 12 at a plenary session.
"According to the full text of the document, markets for the lease of contracted farmland and transfer of farmland use rights shall be set up and improved to allow farmers to sub-contract, lease, exchange and swap their land use rights, or joined share-holding entities with their farmland...
"China will unswervingly stick to and improve the household contract responsibility system that entrusts the management and production of publicly-owned farmlands to individual households through long-term contracts, according to the document.
"The CPC Central Committee also urged more support be given to quicken the development of special rural cooperatives. This was in a bid to turn them into modern agricultural organizations to guide farmers to participate in domestic and global market competition..."
See also We will still have to check back on this one
Labels: China, policy, politics
posted by Ken Wedding @ 6:56 PM
2 Comments:
China Enacts Major Land-Use Reform
"After days of uncertainty, the governing Communist Party on Sunday announced a rural reform policy that for the first time would allow farmers to lease or transfer land-use rights, a step that advocates say would raise lagging incomes in the Chinese countryside...
"The fate of the reform program has been uncertain for the past week. Analysts had expected an announcement last Sunday after the conclusion of an important annual Communist Party planning session. But the communiqué released after the meeting made no mention of land reform, fueling speculation that opponents may have derailed the plan...
"Signs that the reforms had been approved began to appear during the week. In Chengdu, the capital of the southwestern Sichuan Province, a government land market opened last Monday. On Thursday, a leading Communist Party magazine published an article by one of the country’s most senior officials on rural issues in which he said that the party would create a market for transferring land-use rights in the countryside..."
Land use reform
In spite of the week-long delay in the official announcement, a Xinhua release says, "At 3 p.m. on Oct. 12, the draft was endorsed at the closing session of the third Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee."
Post a Comment
<< Home