The annual per capita disposable income of farmers in Shanghai
exceeded 10,000 yuan (about 1,369 U.S. dollars) for the first time
last year, according to information released from an enlarged
meeting of the leading group of Shanghai City on rural work.
Last year was also the fourth successive year in which the
city's farm incomes grew by more than 10 percent, according to the
data.
The city added more than 17,333 hectares of irrigated farmland
and vegetable plots last year, and improved strains of major crops
were sown on more acres of land. Also, more improved varieties of
livestock were bred.
Vice Mayor Hu Yanzhao pledged that greater efforts would be made
this year to improve conditions in the city's rural outskirts and
lead China in finding solutions to problems caused by urban-rural
economic disparities.
(Xinhua News Agency January 11, 2008)
