New Thinking on Rural Development in China by LSE Public Policy Podcasts published on 2024-03-20T15:26:35Z The talk will presents China’s ongoing rural revitalisation program through different cases. The speaker has been working on rural development programs in Yunnan, China since 2015. Faced with challenges of rural-urban disparity and rural decline, it is critical to explore new development approach by adopting rural-urban parallel rather than sequential transformation. Rural revitalisation program is not simply increasing investment but focusing on regenerating new rural economy appropriate for small-holder farmers’ development. The speaker argues that in the past two decades, the development process from poverty reduction to rural revitalisation in rural China has produced a new development narrative. But it has been largely ignored by the development community. Speaker: Professor Xiaoyun Li (China Agricultural University) Chair: Professor James Putzel (Department of International Development, LSE) China and the World Seminar Series is monthly seminar series which brings together leading academics to discuss issues of public policy research across China and other countries. For more information: https://www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-public-policy/Research/LSE-Fudan/China-and-the-World-Seminar-Series Hosted by the LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub and the LSE School of Public Policy Genre Science