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Agriculture Modernization 　　China hopes to reform its agriculture sector this year to increase food produce quality， reduce the grain oversupply and help rural populations living in poverty achieve prosperity. 　　The plan was laid out at the end of December of last year when Chinese leaders held a central rural work conference to review how the agriculture industry performed in 2015 and map out goals for the 13th Five-Year Plan（2016-20） period. 　　The primary goals to be reached are to secure the supply of major farm produce， transform agricultural development and expand public culture services and the social security system that covers both urban and rural regions. 　　Central leadership plans on reaching these goals through supply-side structural reform of agriculture， which stresses a focus on quality and efficiency in agricultural production. The country should optimize the agricultural structure and promote largescale production to improve quality and competitiveness， Premier Li Keqiang wrote in an address to the conference. 　　Li said China should accelerate construction of rural infrastructure， improve facilities and services in villages and urban areas favored by rural migrants and promote coordinated urban and rural development. 　　The meeting concluded that food security should be the bottom line of reforms， while self-sufficiency in grain needs to be guaranteed while price mechanisms， purchasing and storage policies of major agriculture products should also be improved. The policies will work toward boosting farmers incomes， and targeting poverty alleviation. 　　The country will step up grain processing to cut stock； promote large-scale production， curb overuse of pesticides and fertilizers and introduce social services to slash costs； reinforce rural infrastructure and boost shortlysupplied farm produce to overcome weak links， said the statement released after the conference. 　　 A reform on supply side 　　China is pushing forward supply-side reforms in a