Comprehensive Agricultural Development: Opportunities from the current economic crisis

摘要

This paper explores how the People’s Republic of China (PRC) can turn the challenges posed by the current global economic crisis into opportunities for a more prosperous future. The paper proposes a one-time sharp increase of government investments in the country’s successful albeit constrained Comprehensive Agriculture Development Program (CAD). CAD, a well-established national program, is a natural instrument for raising the quality of life in the PRC’s countryside while expediting land reform and long-term food security.