BEIJING: Chinese leaders have yet to announce the details of a rural reform policy they said they adopted Sunday, contributing to speculation that Communist Party officials are in disagreement on major aspects of the plan. Scholars and analysts inside and outside China have been discussing this week why the leaders have remained silent on the issue. When the Communist Party's annual four-day planning session began Oct. 9, officials in attendance began reviewing a draft of a sweeping overhaul of land policy that President Hu Jintao was believed to have been backing. Scholars and government advisers said the proposed policy centered around two major changes: allowing peasants to engage in the unrestricted trade, purchase and sale of land-use contracts, and extending those contracts to 70 years from 30 years. Senior leaders including Hu intended to push the policy changes through at the session, scholars and advisers said. But the communiqu