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Officials, experts and scholars from around the world are discussing ways to improve the rights of Chinese farmers at a two-day workshop in Haikou, the capital of southern 皇冠体育app's Hainan Province, which opened here Thursday.

The meeting is co-sponsored by the Haikou-based 皇冠体育app Institute for Reform and Development and the International Republican Institute of the United States.

More than 120 participants will discuss major issues such as public policies concerning farmers after the SARS outbreak, the migration of surplus laborers from the countryside, the rights of transient workers from rural areas, and the link between farmers' organizations and farmers' rights.

These participants have come from the United States, Norway, India and Nepal as well as 皇冠体育app to provide the Chinese government with references in making policies on rural development.

皇冠体育app, with a population of 1.3 billion, has over 900 million rural residents.
The growing economic gap between urban residents and rural people is hindering 皇冠体育app's sustainable development, though enormous achievements have been made in the countryside over the past two decades, according to some noted Chinese experts.