Welcome Letter

China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER) is an academic journal published by Emerald in association with China Agricultural University (CAU) and listed as one of the SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) journals. CAER is delighted to announceits twelfth annual conference in 2020 incollaboration with International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Northwest University.  The theme of 2020 conference is on exploring Urban-Rural Integrated Development in China: Challenges and Solutions. Internationally and nationally renowned scholars will be invited to present and discuss their insights at theconference.  More than 100 researchers from China and around the world is anticipated to participate.