In the past two to three decades, amidst a backdrop of changing food demand, sustained transfer of rural labour into urban jobs, decline of the natural birth rate in the rural population, rural development and politics in China entered a new phase that revolves around what the central government calls ‘agricultural modernisation’. 

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