To speed up rural transformation, various policy measures were issued during 2000–05 to support private investment in the rural sector, the application of modern technologies, development of rural nonfarm activities, and improvements in rural physical and social infrastructures, with a focus on education and healthcare. The Enterprise Law introduced in 2000 and revised in 2005 created an enabling environment for private investment in the rural sector. In 2002, Decree 80 was introduced to promote contract farming and remove the agricultural value-chain fragmentation. The following year, the government issued Resolution 28, which concretely requested that the SOEs in the agricultural sector be reduced in number and restructured. Moreover, state forest enterprises (SFEs) were obliged to reform and relocate forest land to local communities that were mostly composed of poor ethnic groups in mountainous areas.