From ChinaView.cn:
Farmers should expect their income gap with urbanites to narrow in the years ahead, a senior agricultural policy-maker said yesterday in Beijing.
Chen Xiwen, deputy director of the Office of Central Financial Work Leading Group, also said new trade barriers imposed by importing nations contributed to China’s staggering agricultural trade deficit last year.
“The income gap between rural and urban residents has not further expanded in 2004, thanks to a raft of policies to prod farmers’ income growth, plus favourable weather and surging grain prices last year,” Chen told a press conference yesterday.
