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Date:2016/04/18
BEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- More than 2.49 million impoverished people will be relocated in 2016, in the latest effort to deliver on the government's target of lifting all people out of poverty by 2020. The top economic planner, the National Develo...
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Date:2016/04/18
By Pan Jin'e Updated: 2016-04-16 09:01 The Jinghong Hydropower Station will increase water discharges to ease effects of a regional drought. [Photo by Yang Zheng/China Daily] The water discharged by China from its dam in the upper reaches of Lancang-...
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Date:2016/04/15
ABIDJAN, April 14 (Xinhua) -- A group of Chinese agricultural experts on Wednesday joined other Cote d'Ivoire farmers at the Chinese-funded rice farming project in Guiguidou, Divo sub-region, some 180 km from Abidjan, to plant rice seedlings just bef...
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Date:2016/04/15
BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- China will offer greater poverty relief support to the Luoxiaoshan Mountainous area, a former Chinese revolutionary base, the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) announced on Thursday. At an inter-ministerial meeting to disc...
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Date:2016/04/15
BEIJING, April 13, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) meets with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, April 13, 2016. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin) BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhua) -- China is ...
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Date:2016/04/15
BEIJING, April 14, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) meets with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during the fourth annual talks between the two countries' prime ministers in Beijing, capital of China, April 14, 2016. Turnbull ...
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Date:2016/04/14
MOA gave a press conference and briefed the media on China’s developments of GMO in Beijing on April 13, 2016. Director General of the General Office and spokesperson of MOA Ye Zhenqin chaired the press conference. Director General of Department of S...
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Date:2016/04/14
LANZHOU, April 13 (Xinhua) -- With China promising to have wiped out poverty by 2020, many provincial-level regions are proposing to relocate residents from barren, physically disadvantaged areas to start new lives elsewhere. One province that has al...
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Date:2016/04/14
KUNMING, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Farm produce sales via Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba topped 69.6 billion yuan (10.7 billion U.S. dollars) in 2015, up by 44 percent year on year, according to a report released on Wednesday by AliResearch, the researc...
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Date:2016/04/14
Fudan University smooths way for students from remote areas to apply for admission Students in remote or impoverished rural regions who are in their final grade in high school will no longer need to make the long journey to Shanghai for written tests...
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Date:2016/04/14
Rural areas will be the next battlefield for e-commerce giants as the State Council, China's Cabinet, looks to promote online shopping by providing faster internet connections to remote locations. The government will invest more money in establishing...
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Date:2016/04/14
Liu Yonghao, chairman of New Hope Group Co. The billionaire chairman of New Hope Group Co, China's largest privately held agricultural company, is looking to buy fish-farming assets in Southeast Asia as part of a 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) push t...
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Date:2016/04/13
HANGZHOU, April 12, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Farmers pick West Lake Longjing tea at a tea plantation in Meijiawu Village of Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, April 12, 2016. The late maturing species of West Lake Longjing tea has entered i...
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Date:2016/04/13
SHENYANG, April 12, 2016 (Xinhua) -- A farmer pulls a mule to level the ground for planting as the weather gets warmer in Tianjiafang Village of Liaozhong District in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, April 12, 2016. (Xinhua/Ding Hongfa)...
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Date:2016/04/13
BEIJING, April 12 (Xinhua) -- China will plant more soybean and improve yield to fill a gap between supply and demand, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said on Tuesday. By 2020, China will have 140 million mu (9.33 million hectares) of soybean plant...
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Date:2016/04/13
LIBREVILLE, April 12, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Yu Zhengsheng (L), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), holds talks with Gabon's Senate Speaker Lucie Milebou in Libreville, Gabon, April 12, 2016...
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Date:2016/04/12
Vice Minister Qu Dongyu met with Shamshad Akhtar, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in Beijing on April 11, 2016. Vice Minister...
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Date:2016/04/12
The Gansu Provincial Agricultural and Pastoral Office carried out a series of activities introducing reliable agricultural material products to local farmers in April. With farmers preparing spring ploughing in April, staff members from provincial of...
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Date:2016/04/12
ISLAMABAD, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Barren fields, children dropping out from schools, rising debts, agony and hopelessness was all that Pakistan's local farmer Ghulam Sarwar had in his miserable life. That was until the Chinese government helped him gro...
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Date:2016/04/12
NEW YORK, April 11 (Xinhua) -- A joint working group was established here on Monday to promote trade and investment cooperation between Chinese provinces and the U.S. state of New York. The group, the seventh of its kind at the local levels between t...