Following Xi Jinping’s report to the 19th Party Congress calling on officials to give priority to rural development, the 2017 Central Rural Work Conference and 2018 No. 1 Doc. elaborated, outlining four aspects
- assignment of cadres 干部配备
- allocation of inputs 要素配置
- investment of capital 资金投入
- provision of public services 公共服务的安排
The ‘four priorities’ were a key focus of the December 2018 Central Rural Work Conference report, instructing localities to adjust their priorities in the last year remaining to win Xi’s anti-poverty battle, and perhaps admonishing them for failure to reprioritise.
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