China Enacts Major Land-Use Reform

The government 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 boost lagging incomes.

Hints of Discord on Land Reform in China

Chinese leaders have yet to announce details of a rural reform policy, contributing to speculation that officials are in disagreement on major aspects of the policy.

China Announces Land Policy Aimed at Promoting Income Growth in Countryside

Chinese leaders said they would adopt a rural growth policy aimed at vastly increasing the income of China’s hundreds of millions of farmers by the year 2020.

China May Let Peasants Sell Rights to Farmland

The shift could draw hundreds of millions of farmers more firmly into China’s city-centered market economy.