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Salute to Reform Planner

Du Runsheng, a senior expert on rural affairs, has wonthe inaugural China Award for Theoretical Innovation inEconomics for devising the household contract respon-sibility system that helped millions of Chinese farmersshake off poverty in the 1980s.