BEIJING, Oct. 12 — The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Sunday approved a decision on major issues concerning rural reform and development at the close of a four-day plenum. Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a work report at the Third Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee, which was held from Oct. 9 to 12 in Beijing.

The government would try to make a breakthrough in reforming the rural system, proceed in liberating the rural economy and improving its dynamics, create a better economic environment, improve rural development policy.

Here, ChineseHour selects  some hot Chinese words about “San Nong” , the common political terms for the rural development policy.

三农问题

sānnóng wèntí
The issues concerning “Agriculture, Countryside and Farmers”.  You can understand this  easily because the character “nóng” is used three (sān) times in the phrase “农业、农村、农民” (nóngyè nóngcūn nóngmín, agriculture, rural development and farmers’ life).

农业、农村、农民

nóngyè nóngcūn nóngmín
agriculture, rural development and farmers’ life

E.G.: The CPC has always placed great importance on agriculture, rural development and farmers’ life as they are vital to the country’s overall development.

家庭 联产 承包 责任制

jiātíng-liánchǎn-chéngbāo-zérènz
the household contract responsibility system

Note: In 1978, a group of villagers in Xiaogang village (小岗村) in eastern Anhui Province decided to adopt a household contract responsibility system, which entrusted the management and production of public owned farmlands to individual households through long-term contracts.

Later the system, described by then Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping “a great invention of Chinese farmers”, was widely adopted across the country and triggered the economic reform.

三个代表 sāngè dàibiǎo

Three Represents
Note: Shorthand for the call that the Communist Party of China (CPC) provides insight and leadership for economic and cultural progress, and commit itself to public good.

Former CPC General Secretary Jiang Zemin, who was credited with its creation, literally admonished his comrades to “represent the development trend of China’s most advanced productive forces, the orientation of China’s most advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people”.

The theory is the result of deliberations of the CPC’s third-generation leaders on legitimacy and Party-building. At the 16th CPC National Congress in 2002, it was formally written into the Party Constitution.

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