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Date:2014/02/11
Merging pension systems is only the first step in making a more fair system for farmers. There is more to do to realize a modern and fair pension system in China, says an article of the Southern Metropolis Daily. Excerpts:
The State Council d...
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Date:2014/02/10
Farmers plant kiwi trees in Nandan County, south China's Guangxi Autonomous region, in early spring on Feb. 9, 2014. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)
Farmers plant kiwi trees in Nandan County, south China's Guangxi Autonomous region, in early spring ...
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Date:2014/02/10
NINGBO, Zhejiang Province, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese naval vessel Zhoushan has rescued a sailor injured in a fire on board a Chinese fishing boat at sea, a source from the navy told Xinhua on Saturday.
Fire broke out on fishing boat Zhelingyu...
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Date:2014/02/08
February 8, 2014
China plans to reform its pension scheme by unifying the two separate systems for urban and rural residents to allow people better access to social benefits, according to a statement issued after the meeting presided over by Premie...
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Date:2014/02/08
Updated: 2014-02-07 09:46:46
As the owner of one of the largest family farms in Xuancheng city, Anhui province, Zan Xiaoma has been both elated and deflated by his farmland.
Through planting rice on some 2,000 mu (133 hectares) he rents...
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Date:2014/02/07
By Yang Ziman (China Daily)
Updated: 2014-02-07 08:09
China had 468 rural commercial banks, 1,803 rural cooperatives and 1,071 county banks by the end of 2013, according to China Banking Regulatory Commission statistics.
Provided to C...
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Date:2014/02/07
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- China's top economic planning agency said Thursday that it would let the market play a more decisive role in the pricing mechanism of agricultural products in 2014.
The National Development and Reform Commission (ND...
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Date:2014/02/07
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- China will allow private investors to establish rural commercial banks to inject more funds into the countryside and boost rural development, according to the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC).
Private inve...
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Date:2014/02/07
TAIPEI, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan's agriculture authority said Thursday it will focus on promoting leisure farms as tourist attractions, setting a revenue goal of 11 billion New Taiwan Dollars (36.3 million U.S. dollars) for this year.
The agr...
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Date:2014/02/07
By Xinhua Writer Wang Chenxi and Yang Di
YA' AN, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) - Not long after Spring Festival, firecrackers echo through the misty morning in village of Miaoxia in the southwestern province of Sichuan, where armies of greenhouses loom out ...
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Date:2014/02/07
Updated: 2014-02-03 13:01
By Wang Qian
Liu Zhengming's newly built farmhouse is equipped with all the electrical appliances and mod-cons you would find in a city household.
"As you can see, life is much better now," says the 59-ye...
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Date:2014/01/30
A radish carving with three Chinese characters "Zhongguomeng", Chinese Dream in English,
is placed on the table. (www.cnchemicals.com Haibin)
Cui Chuanbao, 50, is a farmer in Damawan village in Jiaozhou, eastern China's Shandong province. Cui is...
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Date:2014/01/29
ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- China has been doing quite a lot of work to the development of the agriculture sector in Africa, said Tumusiime Rhoda Peace, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture at the African Union (AU) Commission.
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Date:2014/01/29
NANJING, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Luo Hengdi arrived home at 3 a.m. on Tuesday after an epic journey that typified the annual travails of millions of Chinese migrant laborers in seeing loved ones over Spring Festival.
The 2,000-km trip from Nanjing...
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Date:2014/01/28
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (C) presides over a meeting on the train during his tour to deprived regions in Shangluo City and Ankang City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 26, 2014. (Xinhua/Li Tao)
XI'AN, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- China will ...
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Date:2014/01/28
BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- China plans to cut the number of counties eligible for state poverty relief, an official said on Monday.
There are 832 counties that receive relief and preferential policies, said Wang Guoliang, deputy director of ...
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Date:2014/01/28
CHONGQING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Farmer Liu Xinglu earns 20,000 yuan(3,278 U.S. dollars) a year renting his farm to an agricultural company. It doubles what he made before 2010 when he tended the plot himself.
Liu, from Jiangjin District, southw...
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Date:2014/01/28
BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said on Monday that the H7N9 bird flu virus has not been found in the country's poultry farms, but it has been detected in live poultry markets in some provinces.
Of the 33,400...
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Date:2014/01/28
BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Current H7N9 cases are scattered and there is no evidence of constant inter-human transmission, according to a paper on H7N9 diagnosis and treatment issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission on Sunday.
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Date:2014/01/27
BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang on Sunday urged authorities in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province to steadily construct an environment fit for modern agriculture.
Efforts should be coordinated and targeted at a...