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Chinese President Hu Jintao has urged the country's farming sector to improve food safety and develop the organic sector, state media said on Wednesday, reflecting widespread anxiety after a series of health scares.

The ruling Communist Party's Politburo -- an inner council with some two dozen members -- listened to reports about food safety and Hu issued his warning, promising stricter rules on growing and processing, the official People's Daily reported.

"Resolving the food problems of 1.3 billion people and improving agricultural returns and farmers' incomes demands that we accelerate implementation of agricultural standardisation," Hu said.

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