Food security, rural environment top China's policy agenda in 2014

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Food security, rural environment top China's policy agenda in 2014

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/china-39-top-policy-priorities-2014-food-security-090403472--finance.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/AzrUO4Ru1aa_eJJwP2XK4Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-01-19T090403Z_1_CBREA0I0P7400_RTROPTP_2_HONGKONG.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A volunteer works in one of the last paddy fields at Hong Kong's New Territories" align="left" title="A volunteer works in one of the last paddy fields at Hong Kong's New Territories" border="0" /></a>China's top policy priorities for 2014 will be improving the rural environment and maintaining food security, according to a a key policy document published by the official Xinhua news agency on Sunday. The &quot;number one document&quot;, issued every January by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, sets the country's policy priorities for the year, and has focused on rural matters every year since 2003. The document said China would continue to pursue &quot;basic grain self-sufficiency&quot; while increasing the use of overseas markets and allowing an &quot;appropriate&quot; amount of imports, but it stressed it &quot;would not relax domestic food production at any time&quot;. The fight against rural pollution is also part of China's efforts to ensure it has enough farmland, water and rural labor to feed a growing urban population without having to turn to overseas markets.</p><br clear="all"/>

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