China will deepen institutional reform and mechanism innovation to drive agricultural modernization and rural development, stressed an official in charge of rural work at a press conference in Beijing, a day after the release of the No. 1 central document this year, which focuses on supply-side structural reform in agriculture.

The document calls for improving structures in the industry, boosting innovation, cultivating new growth engines, promoting green production, extending the sector's industrial and value chain, consolidating shared rural development, and enhancing rural reform.