Reflecting on China’s Promotion of the Sustained Stable Increase of Farmers’ Incomes

Abstract

The slow increase in rural incomes and the widening income gap between rural and urban citizens are important problems for the work on agriculture and in rural areas. To maintain a steady increase in rural income, we should persist in developing the rural–urban economies in a coordinated and harmonious way and constructing a long-term mechanism to promote rural incomes in the coming period. Besides, we should explore the potential of increasing rural incomes through optimising the inner structure of agriculture, and seeking channels outside agriculture for incomes increase. We should also make vigorous efforts to develop non-agricultural industries, and speed up the urbanisation progress and the migration of the redundant labour force.