Researching on rural reform and development issues in regards to coordinated rural-urban development, institutional reforms, economic restructuring of agriculture and rural areas, and rural administration.

Evaluating the rural economic situation and policy implementation, supply and demand of agricultural products, changes in rural markets, food safety and related policies, international trade of agricultural products, rural incomes and consumer spending, rural land reforms, improvement of rural land ownership, farmer cooperative organizations, reform of rural financing, agricultural infrastructure, environmental construction, scientific and technical progress in agriculture.

Researching on development of rural non-farming industries, and the shift of rural labor to non-farm sectors, employment rights of migrant workers from rural areas, small town development, rural education and health care, poverty, and democratic processes and legal systems at the rural level.