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Date:2016/10/24
Updated: Oct 24,2016 7:43 AM CHENGDU — Vice-Premier Wang Yang has urged local governments to strengthen supervision on farm product quality and food safety. China has gained some experience from a nationwide pilot program starting from 2014, which en...
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Date:2016/10/24
Updated: 2016-10-21 Rice has been a staple food in China for centuries, but as the country develops, producing enough grain to satisfy rising demand is becoming a huge challenge. But a scientist from Zhanjiang may have found the answer to keeping ric...
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Date:2016/10/21
BEIJING, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- China has published and is soliciting public opinion on a draft revision to the country's food safety regulation, which stipulates stricter rules for online food sales. The draft, published by the State Council's Legislat...
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Date:2016/10/21
Chinese ambassador to Somalia, Wei Hongtian (1st R), Abdirashid Mohamed Hidig, State Minister of Interior and Federal Affairs of Somalia (C) and WFP Somalia Country Director Laurent Bukera (1st, L) attend the donation ceremony held in Mogadishu, capi...
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Date:2016/10/21
BEIJING, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development has sent supervision teams to review local government poverty relief work. The supervision will expand over 22 provinces, autonomous regions an...
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Date:2016/10/21
BEIJING, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- China aims to achieve "marked progress" in agricultural modernization by 2020, according to a five-year plan released by the State Council Thursday. The country will strive to ensure food security, improve the quality and...
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Date:2016/10/21
Xinhua, October 20, 2016 A free trade area should be set up to facilitate regional economic cooperation between members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a senior Chinese official said Thursday. Vice Commerce Minister Qian Keming made t...
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Date:2016/10/20
China's GDP grew 6.7 percent in the third quarter, same level compared to the first half of the year, still within the annual growth target range of 6.5 to 7 percent, official data showed on Wednesday. On a quarterly basis, the economy increased 1.8 ...
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Date:2016/10/20
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang (C) addresses a conference on farmland water conservation infrastructure in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 19, 2016. (Xinhua/Wang Ye) BEIJING, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Premier Li Keqiang has ordered that work on agriculture...
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Date:2016/10/20
At the invitation of the Mongolian side, Mr. Wang Zhicai, Chief Livestock Officer of the Ministry of Agriculture of China, and his delegation visited Mongolia from Oct. 10 to 14, 2016. Mr. Wang had a bilateral meeting with Mr. Sergelen, Minister of F...
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Date:2016/10/19
(Xinhua) 10:53, October 15, 2016 A Kenyan representative visits the Kenya-China Joint Laboratory for Crop Molecular Biology at Egerton University in Nakuru, Kenya, Oct. 14, 2016. The Kenya-China Joint Laboratory for Crop Molecular Biology was officia...
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Date:2016/10/19
Xinhua, October 19, 2016 Cambodia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Agricultural Development with a Chinese company from east China's Shandong province on Wednesday. The deal was inked between Veng Sakhon, Cambodian Minister of Agricultur...
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Date:2016/10/19
Officials seek ways to maintain the culture and landscape of rural communities while also bringing them into the modern age The balance between the conservation and development of traditional villages is key to boosting sustainable tourism in China, ...
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Date:2016/10/19
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with his Uruguayan counterpart Tabare Vazquez during their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 18, 2016. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin) BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Presid...
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Date:2016/10/19
The observance of the 36th World Food Day and the 26th National “Love Food, Save Food” Publicity Week was held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province on Oct.16, 2016. Mr. Sun Zhonghua, Chief Agronomist of the Ministry of Agriculture, addressed the opening cere...
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Date:2016/10/19
Minister Han Changfu met with Mr. Aguerre, Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries of Uruguay, in Beijing on Oct. 18, 2016. The two sides exchanged views on furthering agricultural cooperation between China and Uruguay. At the meeting, Minis...
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Date:2016/10/18
China (Beijing) International Condiment & Food Ingredient Expo (ICFI) 2016 was held in the National Agriculture Exhibition Center from Oct.15 to 17, 2016. Vice Minister Qu Dongyu attended the Expo on Oct.15. Vice Minister Qu visited a number of key e...
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Date:2016/10/18
Xinhua, October 17, 2016 The pledge to eradicate hunger and poverty must go hand-in-hand with rapid transformation of farming and food systems to cope with a warmer world, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a newly-issued report o...
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Date:2016/10/18
(Xinhua) Updated: 2016-10-18 10:50 BEIJING - To boost rural development, China will push for faster growth of the e-commerce sector across its vast under-developed areas. "Policy support will be given to small online retailers ... to lower their oper...
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Date:2016/10/18
China will further enhance the capacity of its agricultural sector to cope with climate change by improving the quality of farmland and reducing food loss and waste, government officials and experts said on Sunday. Climate-related disasters account f...