The Third plenum decision

China will improve the mechanism for coordinating urban and rural development, to allow farmers to share the fruits of modernization.

The country's dual urban-rural economic structure -the different growth patterns in cities and rural areas that have led to a wide urban-rural wealth gap - is a major obstacle to the integration and development of the urban and rural areas.

China must establish a new type of relationship between industry and agriculture and urban and rural residents. Under the new relationship, the industrial sector will promote agriculture, urban areas will support rural development, agriculture and industry will benefit each other and urban and rural development will be better integrated.