新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/02/09（在线收听）

农业强，农村美，农民富如何实现

Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- Today keeps you informed and inspired. I'm Suyi

Coming up:

Agriculture, the countryside and farmers, or Sannong (农业农村农民), have always been the top priority for the Chinese government. It has been in the "No. 1 Central Document", the first central policy statement each year in the past 15 years.

The edition in 2018 provides a road map for rural vitalization, with the width and depth of this development strategy for agriculture, rural areas, and the well-being of the farmers rarely seen in past versions.So what is the most urgent issue our government is targeting this year?

For more on this, CRI's Suyi is now joining on the line by Prof. Wen Tiejun, Director of the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University;Dr. Josef Gregory Mahoney, professor of politics in East China Normal University and in the studio we have Dr. Liao Yongsong, Senior Researcher with the Rural Development Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences