Village Heads Discuss China's Rural Development

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Village Heads Discuss China's Rural Development

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More than 100 village heads from 25 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities around China gathered at a forum here Saturday to offer their opinions on the building of village economies and a well-off rural society.

Sources with the Second China Village Head Forum, going on in this capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, said that China hassome 690,000 villages employing five million administrative servants.

Liu Yao, secretary of the village committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Liuzhuang Village, in east China's Shandong Province, said that the lack of communications should notconstitute an obstacle for the development of a village as long asthe villagers emancipate their mind.

In his village nowadays, greenhouse farmers become rich by selling their products via the Internet.

Village heads from western regions have taken advantage of the opportunity to learn from their counterparts from the east, especially with regard to ecological farming and green food production, the sources said.

Hu Qinglian, secretary of the Zhangwudian Village CPC Committeein central China's Henan Province, said that villages are the basic units of Chinese society. Major problems arising in the course of China's modernization drive are originating in the ruralsector.

The master's degree holder said that, at present, village headsin China are all elected via direct elections and their orientation will have a big impact on the future of China's villages.

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