Hot job prospects in 2017

A farmer in Dongxiang county, Jiangxi province, checks the paddy rice he grows in a greenhouse, April 10, 2015. [Photo/VCG]

Commercial farmers

In the first document released this year, the central government stated that it would push forward the supply-side reform in the agricultural sector by exploring new ways to make good use of the vacant residential houses and homesteads in the countryside that could add to farmers' income.

Cultivating new types of commercial farmers is also in the State Council plan to improve employment in the 13th Five-Year Period in order to increase the income of farmers and create more job openings.