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Date:2014/01/27
Two tourists take photos of themselves amidst rape flowers in Chishang Township of Taitung County, southeast China's Taiwan, Jan. 24, 2014. In Taitung County, a major rice-producing area in Taiwan, farmers would grow rapes in their rice paddie...
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Date:2014/01/27
FUZHOU, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Migrant worker Zhang Desheng was under no illusions about the ordeal of a nonstop 12-hour motorbike ride in winter, but the excitement of homecoming for the Lunar New Year made it one he was willing to face.
"I was ...
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Date:2014/01/27
BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Bumper harvests for the last ten years and the government's perennial stance on guaranteeing ample grain for the people, have made scarcity a stranger to Chinese dinner tables.
In the face of urbanization and indus...
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Date:2014/01/26
For the past 10 years, the Chinese government has been trying to get rural consumers to spend more to boost the economy, especially in the country's interior far from the more prosperous, eastern coast. But experts are divided, with some analysts see...
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Date:2014/01/26
New water facilities at a rural school on Hainan Island, China’s southernmost province, have benefited more than 2,000 students and staff at the school.
New water facilities at a rural school on Hainan Island, China’s southernmost prov...
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Date:2014/01/26
In this file photo taken on May 26, 2013, primary school students from Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, watch farmers planting rice seedlings during a field trip in Deqing County of Zhejiang. Countryside tourism has become a new g...
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Date:2014/01/26
By Wang Hongyi in Shanghai (China Daily) Updated: 2014-01-25 14:10
Staff from Hangzhou's disease prevention department sterilize a closed poultry market on Friday. Long Wei / for China Daily
Hangzhou, the capital of eastern China...
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Date:2014/01/26
By Zhong Nan (China Daily) Updated: 2014-01-24 14:01
Rising demand in industrial and food industries has led to increasing imports of corn, wheat, soybeans
China's hunger for protein food has pushed the country to import more for...
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Date:2014/01/26
NANCHANG, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Health authorities in east China's Jiangxi Province Saturday confirmed a second human case of H10N8, a new strain of bird flu known to affect humans.
The patient, a 55-year-old woman in Nanchang, capital of Jiangx...
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Date:2014/01/24
The rural land reform that is to proceed in the years to come will undoubtedly produce great changes in villagers' lives, but whether the reform is carried out in line with central government policy will be key to its success.
According to th...
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Date:2014/01/24
A farmer picks strawberries in a greenhouse in Jimo City, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 23, 2014. The local strawberry growers used multi-layers planting method to gain two times more strawberries than usual. (Xinhua/Liang Xiaopeng)
A...
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Date:2014/01/24
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- China's National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) on Wednesday urged local health departments to strengthen prevention and control work against H7N9 avian flu as more cases were reported recently.
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Date:2014/01/24
BEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- China will strive to keep up with the world's transgenic technology development while maintaining rigorous standards for genetically modified food and keeping consumers well informed about such food, the country's top ...
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Date:2014/01/23
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- China seeks self-reliance in staple production, including wheat and rice, following growth in domestic grain output over the past decade, a senior agricultural official said Wednesday.
Currently, more than 97 perce...
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Date:2014/01/23
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- The Information Office of China's State Council released details on the country's latest push to reform its agricultural policies. Officials stressed that agriculture is still the foundation of the country's economy. C...
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Date:2014/01/23
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Arable land contaminated by heavy metals across China will be withdrawn from agricultural production, said a senior Chinese agricultural official on Wednesday.
Agricultural land with high levels of heavy metals wil...
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Date:2014/01/23
GUANGZHOU, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- China reported four more human cases of H7N9 avian flu on Wednesday, raising the alert on the epidemic in the country.
One of the new cases, a 71-year-old man from the eastern province of Jiangsu, is in critical ...
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Date:2014/01/22
The further reform of China bodes well for a better future for Chinese farmers and agriculture, says an article in Southern Metropolis Daily. Excerpts:
The central government issued its No 1 document of 2014 recently, vowing to address institu...
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Date:2014/01/22
BEIJING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) said on Tuesday it is now coordinating closely with other departments to prevent and control the H7N9 avian flu.
The NHFPC has strengthened the coordin...
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Date:2014/01/22
Villagers shop at a bazaar in Xinrong Village of Helan County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Jan. 20, 2014. Residents of some immigrant villages in Ningxia started purchasing food and articles for the upcoming Spring Festival at th...