China has officially banned urban residents from buying rural homes and barred retired officials from building houses on rural land, as the government pumps the brakes on its recent land reform drive.

SHENZHEN, China, Feb 23 (Reuters) - China will deepen its rural reforms as part of efforts to revitalise the agricultural sector and bolster food security in the face of U.S. tariffs, an economic ...

China unveiled its "No. 1 central document" for 2025 on Sunday, outlining the priorities for further deepening rural reforms and taking solid steps in advancing all-around rural revitalization.

[Photo by Liu Jian/China SCIO] As spring farming begins across the country, China released its annual rural policy blueprint on Sunday, referred to as the "No. 1 central document," aiming to ...