The gap between rural areas and major cities in China is getting wider and wider, in terms of economic, technological and cultural development.
Such widening gap worries the government as macro-inequality causes unrest. To cope with the problem, the Central Government passed a groundbreaking land reform as one of the measures to improve rural living standards.
The land reform would allow farmers to transfer their lands, currently collectively owned and then distributed by the government, to other parties.
This scheme is believed to stimulate agricultural development and business opportunity as it promotes large scale agriculture and it gives farmers a lot more flexibility in deciding what to produce.
Such measure not only benefits the farmers. Promotion of large-scale agriculture makes the use of mass-production machinery and modernization much easier. Hence, it may also help to increase the gross production of food nationally. This may be a solution to food shortage in the nation as well as the globe