Agriculture competition seeks to break plant factory bottlenecks At a modern agricultural park on Shanghai’s Chongming Island,containers-turned-plant factories stood ready for action on February 13.This is the venue ...
Transformation of farming areas aims to bridge gaps with cities Rural revitalization has been a priority of China in recent years,especially since the country’s eradication of absolute poverty in 2020.The national st...
Enterprises play an increasingly important role in bolstering China’s seed industry Xichang has been known as"the land of onion"since the 1990s when largescale production of the vegetable began in the southwestern ci...
Scientists make farmers’ voices heard via the world’s largest parliamentary body A plant protection scientist for nearly four decades,Wang Huasheng has been busy producing technological innovations to overcome farmi...
Four years ago,Nurahmet Memet was a farmer in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.Today,he no longer leads a hardscrabble life in southern Kargilik County,next to the Taklamakan Desert,and instead has ...
In the decades since the great rural-to- urban migration began in the 1980s, the children of the first migrants frequentlychoose to remain in the cities where they were born and raised. They have no desire to return t...
Sannong is a term often used in China today to collectively refer to agriculture, farmers and rural areas. As a traditionally agrarian state with an extra-large percentage of rural population, issues related to Sannon...
The Central Rural Work Conference charts a new path for development When Zhang Shifang started growing strawberries in her 10 greenhouses in Cuicun Township of Beijing’s Changping District in 2005, she made 40,000 yu...
At the beginning of 2011. major grain producing provinces in central and east China experienced a prolonged drought that stretched for more than three months.