Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- China Development Report 2013/14 project team -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The epic task of "building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way" in rural parts of China -- The atypical dichotomy between urban and rural areas and how this pattern developed in China -- Rural development strategy in China from a historical perspective -- Key tasks and challenges as we seek to establish all-round moderate prosperity in rural areas -- The basic pathway toward building an all-round moderately prosperous society in rural areas -- 2 Changes in the geographic distribution of China's rural population and in the allocation of its labor resources -- Number, geographic distribution, and structure of China's rural population in the year 2020 -- China's rural labor force in the year 2020 -- Three pathways for dealing with changes in the rural population and labor force -- 3 Furthering reform of China's land system and granting greater property rights to rural residents -- The evolution of China's land system, its primary characteristics, and its main problems -- Pushing forward on the reform of the property-rights [ownership] system that governs rural land in China by undertaking the critical step of confirming and certifying ownership rights -- Actively promoting the transferability of contractual operating rights to farmland -- Reforming the management system that governs rural homestead sites ["residential-use land"] -- Models that explore putting collectively owned construction-use land on the market -- Deepening reform of the system that governs land requisitions [expropriations] -- Being proactive in exploring how to reform the system that governs collectively owned property rights